dinos22

that's all i wanted to see

duck-san has experienced higher than normal CPU test scores in Vantage as he reported on XS a while ago, i remember even Gatman chiming in saying they are not records if its based on what seem to be buggy scores youngpro saw board giving buggy boosts in wprime at times during his benching particularly when pushing bclock you are obviously assuming what the scores "should" be on X58 platform also right and if what you say is true you should be able to smash your scores with the Classified easily too right, why not bench Classified? teamau score may be buggy but i unless there are a lot of scores around to compare thats hard to say, we've only done one run at 1150 in pretesting and never got a chance to bench properly as one of the cards died so it is possible for sure. the reason why i voted YAY in the other thread is that Heaven is just not up to par with 11 in terms of being a better benchmark yet. '11 has been changed to most of the demands we had, it is now becoming less buggy and works on SLI systems better. Heaven is a great idea and i like the fact we have an alternative but it needs to be shorter, have subtest and some ability to tweak.....so in other words replacing heaven with X '11 is what i thought would be a good idea. The more tests we add the harder it is with guys that want to seriously bench but have LN2 access issues of price problems. This is not an issue in USA, Taiwan, some places in Australia and a few other countries but it is an issue elsewhere. I think it needs to be taken into consideration when more benchmarks are added personally.

Andre is at 6.3GHz 1250/2500/1250 (266.58) and I'm at 5.1GHz 1150/2300/1200 (275.35) you can see combined and physics tests are not much different. looks like the new driver is much stronger in GTs, not sure how combined will be affected you boys are totally missing the point of my discussion here, it originally started with "if you want to be fair then use 3DMARK11 instead of Heaven etc" to which i said hang on EVGA will have an advantage which you dont deny right. The advantage seems to be in the tweaks though from what you are trying to say. I personally am commenting from end user perspective and as a hwbot member wanting healthy competition. i am not trying to put a foot in the door for gigabyte or anyone here at all just simply discussing relevance of a benchmark if only one platform which no one benches on seems to have the edge. If you reckon that is not the case and that its actually some tweaks you found all good then. Can i ask you, how consistent is the scoring with SR2 at very high bclock? Do you see some higher than usual frame jumps like it does on Vantage or wprime?

yeah was good fun but had some drama with one of the cards so that sucked we'll revisit this again sometime, i like benching with the boys

vince i dont have the ability to test atm, what is it you are trying to say

make sure you wipe the card fingers also, sometimes thats the drama

thats because of grease my man

you mean when you run in that outer slot? why are you not running in first slot, that will always run at 16x if its not there is some contact issue which could be grease or something else. i never see it drop to 8x in first slot unless its a grease issue and needs a clean or touch of magic spray

feature? bug?

no it should read X or P

after some testing it seems pretty clear you are scoring both physics and combined a LOT higher which is what is driving the 4way score most here's me at 5Ghz and ive looked at andres runs which i think he said were at 6.3Ghz and he was only 10-15% higher on last two tests. 3DMARK11 P is pretty much like Vantage im running 5Ghz with 1150/2300/1200 4way here

i went YAY should we also have a poll for extreme or performance preset?

wowzers

Lmfao

are you sure 1160 7-7-7- is possible though

damn, well done man!

sweet work dude

Yes software is offlimits just like MSI Afterburner extreme and these cards will work with AB also. GBT vga team as well as MSI don't release this software public for warranty reasons. Mods are very easy honda u can solder right. My SOC cards are modded now,, no need for software. I will provide the rest of mods you can do but really main ones are posted on XS already, ill knock up a thread when I get a chance

ok i LOLed again

im sure gatman would disagree with you there

sick shit

fair enough mate i loled here a little

nah man im indifferent like i said, if it has points great, if it doesnt great i dont care but there is a definite advantage having CPU tests and the fact andre ran an older driver highlights it even more as his GPU tests absolutely smash EVGA's score with newer drivers so what you've done is just made it up with CPU test scores pretty much.

new drivers are much better in single card and it does not affect CPU test mate, when you run 4way its a different story.

Bill you are testing with an ATI card and also possibly a crippled card or one that's a bit "out". This benchmark is definitely not THAT inconsistent. It has a variation in score but not 10% or at least ive never seen it that crazy