Sprocket sashays...

[kaiweiler]

Hmm that didn't help either eh?

D's bench was with a Q6600, it says "Core 2 Quad 2400 Mhz" while the Q9300 says "Core 2 Quad 2500 Mhz"

Long shot but could there be any type of thermal throttling on the card? Knowing you, I am sure that the temperatures are fine, but you never know...

EDIT clocker, you should try switching Robust Graphics Booster (R.G.B.) in your BIOS from Auto to Turbo.

[Detale]

no no I have a q6600 in right now sorry I forgot for a sec, What can I do to improve my 8800 score?

[kaiweiler]

Setting your visual effects to "Adjust for best performance" will probably double your score, but still seems low.
Try a few of the things I've been telling clocker to try.

[Skiz]

I decided to jump in on this too.

Not bad for a 2 year old PC.

Video scores are a bit low but I could get them up a decent amount I'm sure if I kicked on my second GPU. I have 2 7900GTX's but only run one due to issues regarding my two monitors. The other just sits as a monument to how much Dell mobos suck.

I'd like to get a new mobo and case soon so I can take advantage of the second GPU and do a bit of overclocking as well, but that's a whole 'nother thread.

[kaiweiler]

Just to put some scores into perspective

Memory score is lower then normal, got over 500 points more when I had it running 45Mhz slower...
Oh well, can't complain.
See the difference in video though? It is quite substantial!
I'll do another run at 3Ghz with the video at stock speeds and see how it turns out.

Here's my 3Ghz run with 8800GT at stock speeds of 600/1500/900.
Video score still kicking ass and taking numbers...

[clocker]

OK, now it's just getting weird.

Went back to Vista (still 32 bit for the nonce) and reRAIDED the disks.
Loaded drivers, etc. and ran the pitstop.
First run...


OK, video is looking better but WTF is up with the CPU score?
Made no changes- absolutely nothing- rebooted and ran again, so this second pass was within 5 minutes of the first...


Hmmm, CPU is now about what I'd expect but the damn video went down again.

Think I'll install SP1 and see what screws up next.
Fortunately, I have a full cup of French Roast and slept well so this strikes me as amusing right now but that could change at any time...

[kaiweiler]

haha that is very strange!
The only thing I can really think that may cause something like that would be if during the first run you unknowingly had a CPU intensive task scheduled and running in the background, maybe a defrag, virus scan, something of the sort...
But nice Disk score! I wonder why my Raid is so much slower then yours...

It's a never ending story eh?


EDIT Slept well?!? it's 5:30am in your screenshots! Did you go to sleep before the sun went down last night??

[clocker]

No, I usually go beddy-bye @midnight and get up @4:30.
Thanks for asking.

Now we might be getting somewhere but I'm not sure why...


I bumped all the voltages up a little and obviously the clock speed has been increased too.
Have no idea how stable this setting is but Windows is fine so I'll start testing when I go to lunch today.

Indeed, it IS a neverending story.

Started a bit of stress testing just to see where I stand.
Ran OCCT for 3.5 hours while I was at lunch...


And here's what the vCore voltage looked like during that time...yes Ross, this is for you...


Also note the disparity in temps as reported by the two programs.
OCCT uses the CPUid engine and mistakenly assumes the Tmax is 105° instead of 95°c.
I quite like the OCCT app. Unlike ORTHOS, it will load all four cores in one instance and has some nice logging options.
I have no idea what happens when you fail using the program- presumably the red button lights up or something but never fear, I'm sure I'll find out.

[Detale]

I just downloaded OCCT today and I LOVE the pics of the results as the will come in quite handy when comparing. I did notice that the "built in" temp monitor had my chip 32 idle while speedfan had it @ 19? I dunno but usually I found with the stock fan I have now it's usually around 20 degrees with all programs so I'm not gonna worry. I will run some tests and post in a few.

[clocker]

19°c?
Really, you believe that?
That's only 66°F, surely your room ambient is right around there.