3Dmark06 released tomorrow!

**Cheese** · 01-18-2006, 12:10 AM

Can't wait...I've only just upgraded and I'll do this test and want to upgrade again.

**mr. nails** · 01-18-2006, 05:48 AM

Originally Posted by abu_has_the_power

a 7800gt isn't really that great of a card either.

sure it is. a lot better performance with less power consumption.

also, way to early for a new benchmark. um, 01,03,05... 07? or 08? hell, 05 still kicks my pc's ass. meh, hopefully this "06" will be a better benchmark than 05. 05 was terrible! maybe that's why there is such an early release...

**Seedler** · 01-19-2006, 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by Cheese

Can't wait...I've only just upgraded and I'll do this test and want to upgrade again.

lol cheese, you can't really upgraded much more as of now with that card...oh unless you're getting the nvidia 7800 quad

**mr. nails** · 01-19-2006, 08:06 AM

whew, the cpu test killed my pc. idled @ 0fps. lol. this benchmark was a little better than 05's. actually, this benchmark should be called 05+. cuz it's basically a newer version of 05. anyway, the shader model tests are great! the one flaw is that they forgot to throw in sound tests like in 03. thought that was great. 1 sound test with multiple mhz bouncing around woulda been great. hrmm, next time maybe... i'm using beta drivers and seeing how this just came out i'm sure driver fixes are in the workz for better performance. meh.

**abu_has_the_power** · 01-19-2006, 01:07 PM

what's your setup mr nails?

yea, the cpu killed me too. well, it's understandable for me. my cpu's 3 years old

**Cheese** · 01-19-2006, 04:23 PM

I thought the cpu test was supposed to bring your machine down to a crawl. Mine managed 1 fps at most.

I scored 4027, I'll get some screenshots later.