3dmark 11 score comparison

[rec]

Yeah, just tried to purchase it as it's only $19 - but the payment authorisation failed with my CC, and then failed with PayPal. Guess they don't want my money.

[feary]

They are playing hard to get

No idea about results then, I've seen some above ordinary scores but they are all from people running i7 2600k's and pushing them into the 5Ghz range...
I thought our scores would be similar as our systems are fairly similar?

[rec]

In my drivers I have these settings switched to "On":

"Texture filtering - Anistropic sample optimization"
"Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization"
"Threaded optimization"

I also have "Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias" set to "Allow".

Flick those, re-run and let me know if they're the difference?

[feary]

Hm I have similar settings for drivers, ran it again and was able to get 3647, can't see anyway of topping that without overclocking things a bit crazily...

[K_I_Z_A]

sorry to hijack but does this seem an ok system?

	Intel Core i7 2600K	In stock	$325.00				$325.00
	ASUS Maximus IV Gene Z	In stock	$255.00				$255.00
	Corsair Vengeance CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3	In stock	$155.00				$155.00
	MSI Radeon HD6970 Lightning 2GB 940Mhz	In stock	$449.00				$449.00
	Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SSD	In stock	$279.00				$279.00

[rec]

Switch that ATI with an Nvidia and you're set.

Grab a Corsair H70 waterblock for that CPU so you can get the most out of it, too. No point buying that CPU and mobo unless you want to milk the CPU for all its worth - it overclocks an extra GHz with ease.

[Jay]

+1 What rec said (cooler and go nvidia). NH-D14 is also an alternative for less dollars to that for pure air cooling and it can do better than the h70/h80 depending on how you set the fan speed for it. However, be warned those ram sticks won't fit under that cpu cooler, and also check it'll fit in the case. That said, you could go the plain 2600 if you're not going to overclock ever (but I'd still go the k anyway in case you do want to at some point in the future).

For $279, I'd spend a pinch more and go the OCZ V3 Max IOPS instead of the GT.

Also PSU? Don't skimp on it. Seasonic are my goto brand for power supplies because power supplies are what they've specialising in for decades.

eg. Seasonic X-850 80Plus Gold 850W [PSUSEAX850WGOLD] - $269.00 : PC Case Gear

[feary]

I've got mine comfortably overclocked to 4ghz at the moment with a h70, if you wanted more out of it you should either look at a better watercooling setup or settle for a bit high temps, at 4.3 mine was slipping into the mid to high 50 degree on full load..

[craZy C]

Ran it in Extreme with a "Combined Score" of 2148 and Performance 4296
i7-2600k @ stock 3.4GHz
Asus Sabertooth P67 Mobo
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti
16gb Vengence
Vertex 2 Win7 64b

[Sonicks_Services]

Bench press

Hey Gents,
What we have here is 1x destop and one laptop.
The higher scoring desktop: Ran twice one without physics
I7 2600
2x hd5770
1x 1tb hdd
p67a-ud3-b3
8g ddr

Lappy running: Toshiba x770
I7-2630qm
gtx-560m
1x 500g hybrid
8g ddr

[r00t|{it]

AMD 1090T X6 @ 4GHz
8GB GSkill 1333
OCZ Vertex 2 60GB
MSI 6850 Cyclone

P3922 (hmm clearly have a bit of tweaking to do)

[Unseen]

I did some OC's of my I7-920 and got it running at 3.2ghz and my memory at 1777mhz, and got around the 8500 in the performance .. slight improvement.

[rec]

Buy a $150 cooler (Corsair H70) for that i7 920 and you can push it to 4GHz.

[Unseen]

got a thermaltake frio on it atm ..

[feary]

Just reran with new motherboard bios and got combined score of 5349 on extreme