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E8400 and E8500 make both good scores with 3DMark2001. I haven't a high level VGA but it still works good...

74.021 Marks Mar 21, 2008
E8400@4635+Water
2x1GB Kingston HX/1030MHz/5-5-5-15
eVGA GTSC@G772/M1866/S1915+Stock

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Last night i reduced my high voltage levels, (pulled down) as people at this forum have warned me

what kind of gpu do you have? those are some pretty good scores. and thats one hell of any overclock is that on a 780i board?

martini161 wrote:what kind of gpu do you have? those are some pretty good scores. and thats one hell of any overclock is that on a 780i board?

Chilled water cooled E8400@4635 and yes, works on an eVGA 780i. VGA is my new eVGA 9600 GTSC/medium overclocked with stock fan cooler. I have 2x1GB Kingston HX SLi with 1030MHz/5-5-5-15. I have pushed it up to 4,8+ GHz but unstabil and can't get a score with 3DMark yet... I know and see too much people pushing their 8400s up to 4,6-4,8 Gigz to get some scores or just to see how much that pretty chip can do...

I didn't think anyone ran 3D Mark 01 anymore, how about a little 3D Mark 06 action

what series GTSC? an 8800gts?

Bio-Hazard wrote:I didn't think anyone ran 3D Mark 01 anymore, how about a little 3D Mark 06 action

I have a Q6600 rig for 3DMark06 deal and 3D Mark2001 is still a good bench for hi-oced Core2Duos...

martini161, it's an eVGA 9600 GT Super Clocked...

I agree with Bio...3DMark01 has little to no significance. 3DMark06 is the current standard for benchmarks in this day and age, regardless of whether you have a c2d or quad core.

I too could try to impress my peers with a high benchmark score, but if I'm using a benchmark that is 7 years old, whats the point?

Numbers run higher thus look better on 3dmark2001, however have little to no significance today. Translated to 06 probably 14,000.

Agreed, now if you were able to get those super high numbers across the board in all video benchmarks and not just a old outdated one that is completely CPU dependent and doesn't come close to reflecting todays video card performance, that would be another story altogether.

But as its only showing one old bench that shows off only your CPU clock, well, I rest my case.

Run the full series of the current standard benches and see just exactly where you stand overall.

Tis a nice CPU OC though as far as the E8xxx series goes.

Numbers run higher thus look better on 3dmark2001, however have little to no significance today. Translated to 06 probably 14,000.

Maybe if he's lucky with a 9600GT, maybe if its max OC'd.

3DMark2001 score just shows that the CPU works good and high stable at 4,6+ GHz, i am not interesting high numbers and it does'nt even make a 14K 2006, may be 12K+ 2006, thanks...

If you're not interested in high numbers, then why overclock so high?

I know I'm playing devil's advocate, but I'm not following your logic. 3DMark01 may be a better indicator, but if no one uses it, then the number is basically pointless. Your score meant nothing to me the first time I saw it.

Yep, I was thinking around 10k-11k 3DMark06 because of the GPU.

You can test your cpu easily enough just by using Super Pi.

Just as not to be completely negative, Congrats on the overclock...very impressive indeed!

ibleet wrote:If you're not interested in high numbers, then why overclock so high?

I know I'm playing devil's advocate, but I'm not following your logic. 3DMark01 may be a better indicator, but if no one uses it, then the number is basically pointless. Your score meant nothing to me the first time I saw it.

Yep, I was thinking around 10k-11k 3DMark06 because of the GPU.

You can test your cpu easily enough just by using Super Pi.

Just as not to be completely negative, Congrats on the overclock...very impressive indeed!

It was because of here is a Intel Processor Forum, but sure i do some other 3DMarks, i meant i am not interesting high level "3D"Mark scores (so i have a mid-range VGA lol!) But i am interesting with CPU scores and cooling business... If i wanna get some scores, i push my Q6600 G0 and it does his job good. E8400 is not vid-lover CPU at all, but good stuff for ocing and gaming That is the reason i love to play with it...

People would u please give me a good ocing DDR2 advice? I have now 2 gigz of HyperX SLi 8400 and thiking to buy 2 gigz of HyperX SLi 9600... Is there a better (and cheaper may be) idea?

you would see no noticiable real world gain from that upgrade

martini161 wrote:you would see no noticiable real world gain from that upgrade

u mean i don't need an upgrade? so i leave my current dimms on my mobo, tnx...

ahmetozkangil wrote:

martini161 wrote:you would see no noticiable real world gain from that upgrade

u mean i don't need an upgrade? so i leave my current dimms on my mobo, tnx...

If your RAM is clocked over 800Mhz theres very little gains outside benchmarks, more RAM is good though

Zertz wrote:

ahmetozkangil wrote:

martini161 wrote:you would see no noticiable real world gain from that upgrade

u mean i don't need an upgrade? so i leave my current dimms on my mobo, tnx...

If your RAM is clocked over 800Mhz theres very little gains outside benchmarks, more RAM is good though

I have 2*1 Gb 1066 Dimms, not 1200 MHz but 2*2...