Massman Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 (edited) As many of you die-hard overclockers already know: 3DMark01 still is old-skool LGA775's territory since Nehalem (LGA1156 and LGA1366) doesn't provide the specific power required for this old, yet extremely challenging, benchmark. But! Some people are convinced that Nehalem has in fact the power to break, or at least come close to, a couple of world records; the only issue is that not enough time is spent on this platform to really troubleshoot the issues and figure out the hidden performance tweaks. So! We need a challenge. This time it's not a low-clock challenge, but a go-nuts-go-hard challenge. The objective is very simple: prove Massman either wrong or right when he states that Nehalem has the power for 3DMark01. As there's no other place where I can link the competition to: it goes here. Feel free to post links to other forums where this challenge is being discussed. LINK: http://hwbot.org/competition/Nehalem_3DM01 Edited September 8, 2009 by Massman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richba5tard Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Cool! FYI, You configured the stages to start a 9 sept, while the comp starts at 13 september. ; ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted September 8, 2009 Author Share Posted September 8, 2009 Fixord that :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I think you'll be proven wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew stummerwinter Posted September 9, 2009 Crew Share Posted September 9, 2009 Interesting, will do some more next week... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 S775 stage = current top 150 probably Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 VGA is not important in this challenge: it's the platform that needs to be tweaked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 Not in this challenge: it's to see whether or not a Nehalem platform can hit high numbers in the global ranking. And for high 01 numbers, you can even use the old 8800GT's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 To get Nature well over 2000FPS. Actually, SLI gets disabled for the other system tests as it's making the system slower. But, on Nehalem it's already quite difficult to hit 1500FPS in nature as the limitation is the platform rather than the videocard. And 1500FPS is doable with 88GT's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hondacity Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 this is gonna be good... 3oh6 leads with his 3540 ...100k + i only get 94k LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinas Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 looks like my fps cap out? I'm gettin 85K here with i5 @ 4.2GHz / 5870 @ 900/1300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 That's quite high, I think. What are the subtest scores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXPANDER Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 good competition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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