3DMark06 Score New Build

[Monkey_Grill]

Specs: AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.0GHz, 3.5GB DRR2 800MHz, Geforce 9800GTX+ 1GB DRR3

(A big improvement. With my previous build, I got around 5000 points.)

[tonski]

all you guys are blowing me away with these benchmarks, mine is like 11450..that's 3000 pts below.  are you restarting before you benchmark?

[Schlup]

I run about a 16900, but realize he is running 3DMark06 and not 3DMark Vantage...there's a big difference in scores.  What kinda setup are you running?

[tonski]

Intel E6800 CPU, MB: (? I'll have to look when I get home), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 8800 (have yet to SLI it), 4GB RAM - speed and type I'd have to look when I get home.  I was running other software in the background.  I do development and have a ton of other services (multiple instances of SQL, IIS, Apache, a testing network of VMs, etc) - surely that doesn't take up 3000 points though.  Any thoughts?  I was getting 1 fps on the second to last and third to last tests. 

Speaking of which CoD5 - I've been getting like half the FPS I normally get and now I'm ratio-ing like 1:1, this is blasphemous - what has changed!!?

[Schlup]

What have you changed on your computer or in your game settings?

[tonski]

Nothing really has changed.  No new software, no settings changes, nothing comes to mind.  My little brother has his own CoD5 (TheJoeski) profile on my computer and he get's better fps with the exact same settings - there must be a variable or something somewhere that is doing something that isn't accessible through the menus...

Yesterday I installed Vista SP2 - same crap happens. 

[Schlup]

Most likely you went on some other server besides BPN's and they changed some of your hard coded settings.  Serves you right for playing else where!  But for real you need to look at the forum post titled CoD4 Tweaks in the Call of Duty section.  Enter in all those commands and see how it runs then.

[tonski]

I updated my drivers that were dated middle of last year and now stuff is quite a bit smoother.  I also have the SLI card on the way   My 8800 GTX OC's twin.

[CoCoCountyKiller]

I updated my drivers that were dated middle of last year and now stuff is quite a bit smoother.  I also have the SLI card on the way   My 8800 GTX OC's twin.

how much do they go for now?

when they first came out i Think it set me back $500-600

co.co.

[tonski]

I just got a NiB 150$ shipped    My first one cost me about 275$ middle of last year.  Where did you buy from?

[CoCoCountyKiller]

I just got a NiB 150$ shipped    My first one cost me about 275$ middle of last year.  Where did you buy from?

I bought it when they first came out.... I was lucky enough to have been there when they fist uncrated them in the back

I think it was fry's maybe it was $300- 400
 It has been long time since my last build

co.co.

[tonski]

Ahh, my last real PC was a dual Coppermine slot processor with 512mb of ram and *almost* 80G HDD - that thing screamed back when we first built it in late 90's hahaha.

[Schlup]

Does it still run?

[tonski]

My Dad donated it for a tax write off after I went off to the Marines - I'd imagine it still runs if it wasn't abused.  Besides, I have a dual 2.0 Xeon collecting dust in the garage waiting for one of my offers on a house to go through .  I ran it out of a pizza box for a good 2 years before I found a case to put it in, it was a great computer - fast beyond its years.

[Schlup]

So is that a dual core Xeon or (2) Xeon chips and what speed are the chips?  How much RAM?

[tonski]

So is that a dual core Xeon or (2) Xeon chips and what speed are the chips?  How much RAM?

Dual Xeon (2 chips), I think 2G of RAM - I built it 3 years ago for my wife to use as a desktop and it's easily server grade under medium load.  Not sure how it would handle 1.5 million hits a day that require heavy processing but my experience tells me it would hold up pretty well when compared to my last apps.

[Schlup]

How fast are the processors running?

[tonski]

2  jigga hertz!

[Schlup]

But they are single core?  Could you upgrade the processors to quad core?  Or does the socket not allow that?

[tonski]

I'd have to check out the specs - I know it's Intel's 875P chipset.  I think they're dual core but not termed as such (IE they have 2 cores but weren't marketed as "Dual Core").