Roadee's Fastest Rig Competition Discussion Thread

well, you might have a shot at beating me. it's mid-summer here, and hot as hell. I doubt i can't OC pretty high because of the heat. also, i haven't done any OCing of my machine for benchmarking in like a year, so i don't know how well my machine will be able to OC now.

i did OC my machine shortly after getting my OCZ sticks just to see how well it would do, and that's how i found out they were crap compared to my corsair sticks w/TCCD chips .

what would you like to benchmark me against? let me know and i'll compete w/you

 

I feel your heatwave pain too I was hoping for a 4GHz benchable speed here, but with 35C weather it just isn't possible anymore

 

yea, 35c is a bit warm. that's been the average here for the past week or so with the exeption of two days where it was ~30c. but, it's not even the hottest part of the year here in my area. that's still to come.

can't wait for august, nothing but heat! [/sarcasm]

 

OK, here are some scores. I don't have a pcmark05 score because I can't get it working properly...
I did the benchamarks with Hyperthreading enabled/disabled. Everything runs faster with HT enabled except 3dm06, which is actually slower.

3dmark05 cpu score - HT on/off: 4413/4267
3dmark06 cpu score - HT on/off: 814/1015
3dmark05 score - HT on/off: 4445/4391
3dmark06 score - HT on/off: 1913/1972

And finaly one real world benchmark - Blender rendering
Download test.blend (101 KB): http://www.eofw.org/bench/test.blend?PHPSESSID=18192144167476764d322789d0f9d686
and SSE2 optimized Blender (11.8 MB): http://www.graphicall.org/builds/builds/showbuild.php?action=show&id=419
It doesn't need to be installed and it uses its home dir only. Just extract the archive and run.
Open test.blend, set Threads to 2 and hit F12.

My render time is 1:54.80.

BTW, the weather here is hot too. Todays temps are ~35°C, should be 38 tomorrow. I have 28°C in my room right now and it's getting hotter :dead:

 

T-3days until my scores arrive ....quadcore to come on the 22nd

 

wow, nice avatar lowfat. :w00t:

 

Yeah low, Im thinking that will look good myself :rofl:

 

Come on guys the first trophies are handed out, now lets see some more enterings in the other classes too, and some challengers to the current holders.

 

PCMark05 fails the transparent windows test, can't figure out why.

Clean boot, no programs open, latest non-beta WHQL drivers, and it doesn't give any error messages, other than displaying as "failed" in the summary.

 

bad overclocking can make it fail as well.

 

Fails with everything at stock as well.

I'm real picky about stability in any case, spent about a week solid running tests on my current config to verify stability.

 

Thats odd that it keeps failing.... I have never had that happen, only fails audio/video compression when i dont give the proc enough juice and its running above 4ghz.

 

Try to take it I can always try and clock higher.

 

my latest 3Dmark scores are in my siggy. i haven't run these benches ever since i first got my x1950pro. i haven't run it w/HT turned off though. i also need to run the tests you provided me.

 

is it allowed to disable postprocessing in 3dmark05 and 06 and also in 06 to lower resolution to 1024x768 for me it seems fairer as both 03 05 uses 1024x768 and 06 1280x1024

i haven´t enterd any of this kind before i mean isn´t the thing to get a high score so wouldn´t be allowed to tweak 3dmark as well?

well i´m not sure but i guess everything has to be default to get a valid entry?

i have no orb account and so on never cared to create one do i need that aswell?

 

Tampering with any settings in the benchmarks isn't allowed, and yes you need an Orb account.

 

ok got it

i´ll try and see what happens

 

@Asmoday since it is my first try and go i entered the INtel Stock competition can you check that my entry is valid so i haven´t spent all day testing and at the end it is all i vain?

like i said it is my first go at this

 

You have posted the wrong links to the results mate.

 

how do i post the right ones?

edit:

i think i got it now i checked and they linked to the results i intended to