gpu speeding

Tweaked my graphics card a bit to get more juice... at peak, it went to about 86C and crashed... so now I've got it stable running at around 750Mhz and a decent temperature... results below:

Main Test Results

3DMark Score 11607 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 4496 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 4924 Marks

CPU Score 4295 Marks



Detailed Test Results


Graphics Tests
1 - Return to Proxycon 34.762 FPS

2 - Firefly Forest 40.176 FPS

Overclocked

I've now overclocked my fsb from 266 to 300 MHz making my cpu clock at 2.7Ghz (it was 2.4 Ghz) My memory now runs at 750Mhz(1:1 ratio)....
3DMark scores:

Main Test Results
3DMark Score 11273 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4395 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 4904 Marks
CPU Score 3852 Marks


On my stock settings I had a 3dMark score of 10700... so there is a difference so far... i shall run it for a while this way and then think of cranking up later...

Farcry benchmark

You can download the Farcry benchmarking tool from:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=830

Resolution: 1280×1024
Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
Level: Pier, demo: 1.tmd
Pixel shader: model 3.0
Antialising: From System
Anisotropic filtering: From System
HDR: level 7
Geometry Instancing: enabled
Normal-maps compression: enabled

Score = 71.18 FPS

Resolution: 1280×1024
Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
Level: Pier, demo: 1.tmd
Pixel shader: default model
Antialising: From System×
Anisotropic filtering: From System×
HDR: disabled
Geometry Instancing: disabled
Normal-maps compression: disabled

Score = 105.70 FPS (Run 1)
Score = 105.73 FPS (Run 2)

A screenshot from the Benchmark....
Average score = 105.71 FPS


Resolution: 1280×1024
Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
Level: Pier, demo: 1.tmd
Pixel shader: model 3.0
Antialising: 8×
Anisotropic filtering: 16×
HDR: level 7
Geometry Instancing: enabled
Normal-maps compression: enabled

Score = 70.51 FPS (Run 1)
Score = 72.63 FPS (Run 2)
Average score = 71.56 FPS

Crysis Demo

I played and finished the Demo today... after all the hype about crysis and waiting for it... here's my verdict... it is everything and more than what i expected... absolutely stunning... such great fun it was... playing single player on it was soo much fun that for the first time in my life my girl friend even watched... love the detail... i'm sure it will be even better when the full release comes out since the demo uses only dx 9... great game... now i have no hesistation in buying it...

There are two batch files in the Crysis/Bin32 directory called cputest and gputest to see how many fps you get... I ran it with my current settings and got about 30-40 fps on avg... now i may think of overclocking and stuff to get more juice... but i dont know yet...
CPU TEST and GPU TEST IN ORDER:

dx10 benchmark

last night I ran a benchmark using DX 10 (Call of Juarez) and I have to tell you that I was spellbound at the textures I was seeing on the screen, absouletely stunning, the water, glass, sunrays and trees were life like, if not for the human characters in the video, I'd find it difficult to tell it was graphics... BUT!!! even on my what I consider high spec system, I only got 20 FPS on average and a max of 32 FPS. This is with the settings in High of course. I will now try to tweak the computer to see if I can get more juice out of it... but again I have to say... the textures... Stunning!!! Playing Farcry after that made me feel like I was playing on an old x386 or something... (which is ok i guess since Farcry was released 7 years ago)...

DX 10

GPU may need cooling....



CPU(liquid cooled) looks fine...

Benchmark 3dmark 06

Main Test Results
3DMark Score 10733 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4203 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 4776 Marks
CPU Score 3439 Marks

Detailed Test Results

Graphics Tests
1 - Return to Proxycon 34.301 FPS
2 - Firefly Forest 35.754 FPS

CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley 1.14 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley 1.66 FPS

HDR Tests
1 - Canyon Flight (SM 3.0) 43.999 FPS
2 - Deep Freeze (SM 3.0) 51.53 FPS