3DMark05 Benchmark Results

[bob saget]

I love how a 7 series card + AGP equals 8 series cards, now a 38 series card + AGP now equals 47 series card.

I need me some AGP. A 280GTX + AGP would surely equal a 380GTX!!!1111.

how much paypals do you want me to send you for one 380GTX 111edition?

[crainger]

A lot of paypals plz.

[litri]

For whatever the reason, i think my 3Dmark 05 result is wrong, very wrong. Isn't it???

The cpu is slightly overclocked and the 2x8800gtx as well.

What is wrong??

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k119/litri/3dmark05.jpg

[Eliminator]

why even bother with this outdated benchmark?... its severely cpu limited with your setup... even 3dmark06 will be probably... you need 3dmark vantage

[Bman212121]

3dmark05 is a single threaded application. with the low default resolution it probably can't even max out 1 8800GTX.

[litri]

why even bother with this outdated benchmark?... its severely cpu limited with your setup... even 3dmark06 will be probably... you need 3dmark vantage

You're right... why bother... but i was curious to see the results. Just one thing...
I have Physx activated on the cp but i don't know if it really forces one of the gpu's to only do physics, would that hurt the results??

[Eliminator]

3dmark05 is a single threaded application. with the low default resolution it probably can't even max out 1 8800GTX.
the nvidia drivers can actually force multithreading in apps that dont support it... i know that with X1800XL i was cpu limited in 3dmark05 with a single core athlon 64... an X1800XL with an athlon 64 X2 at the same frequency would get about 500-1000 pts more

You're right... why bother... but i was curious to see the results. Just one thing...
I have Physx activated on the cp but i don't know if it really forces one of the gpu's to only do physics, would that hurt the results??
no enabling physx will simply allow hardware accelerated physx in games that support it... for 3dmark only vantage supports it

[JaxMacFL]

Score: 30,628

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=4749126


Update:

I disabled HT in the bios and got an extra 200MHz from 3.9GHz to 4.1GHz. Upped gpu but cpu lost a little.

New score: 34,570

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=4750954