M1530 6014 3dmark06, yay nay?

M1530
C2D 7250
4GB
WD 320GB
8600GT @ 675/900

Just ran 3Dmark06 and broke the 6k mark. I know this is "good" for this config. But how good? @ stock, I get about 4850k.

 

I'd say pretty good, but what resolution?

 

The standard res using the Demo. That is really the only way to get a static comparasion.

 

what the hell...is this overclocked ?

 

Thats really good. On my G2S i get 4099 at stock, so to break the 6k with oc is awesome.

 

Yes it is. 675/900

Running XP. And the 174.74 drivers.

 

LOL, I call BS.

Stock GDDR3 scores ~3700-4000. A heavily OC'd one will break 5k. 6k is either wrong resolution or BS.

 

How is there a wrong resolution? It is the demo 3dmark06, you cannot change the resolution....

So I have been a member for over 2 years (mainly a lurker, but still). And just decide to come on here and lie about a mark? Yeah I am 27, have a 3 year old and a wife. And get my kicks making up false 3dmark scores on the internets.

 

There is no way that you scored 6k with an 8600m GT at 1280x1024. Period.

An 8700m GT, which is practically the same card with higher clocks (625/1250/800) will score 5.5k if lucky. The highest I've seen the 8600m GT break is a little over 5k.

Refer to Toshiba X205 Review: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3856

 

I feel a flury of screenshots a comin. Whether this is true/not, this does make me want to test how far I can get my 8600M GT to go.

 

Also will refer you to the Go 7950 GTX, which scores ~5.2k.

http://www.hothardware.com/articles/NVIDIA_GeForce_Go_7950_GTX_Preview1/?page=3

The 8600m GT is a very powerful card for a 15 inch machine, but it's not that good.

 

Yup, I will double check that I am running 3dmark06, with the latest patches etc.... I am trying out a new Nvidia driver (guess it helps a bit with Hi-res stuff). I will be throwing the shots up shortly.

 

The latest version is 1.1.0 correct?

 

I just took a peak and that 6K score seems to be allusive. The following shot (Disregard the 8600GS spec as all of them run 8600M GT either DDR 2/3, for some reason they now read the GS), has mainly SLI laptops, and upper end OC single cards. I just barely made 4600 with a moderate oc.

 

Like I said, there's no way you're going to get that score with a single 8600m GT. An OC'd Go 7950 GTX may attain that score, but nothing less.

 

Damn, I guess there is no way to get 6014

 

Congratualtions, dam high score

 

Thanks Gengerald. Now is this stable? That is a hard question. Runs 3dmark just fine, never gets over 75c. But WoW crashes like crazy (even tho I don't play it any more). WoW crashes on much less OC'ing then what this test is ran at. I will have to look into that. And try another game.

 

LOL, Resolution: 1280x800.

That artificially inflates your score by an easy 500-1000.

 

Dude, your not serious are you? This is the DEMO. I cannot change anything at all. See where it says register?

Now because my screen is only WXGA does it default to that? Becuase it detects that it will not run @ what you stated? I have a 24" dell I can plug it in to to test with.

 

this is not all that crazy. Even with 1440 x 900 I got close to 6k.
As posted in other thread:
Well I was feeling daring and wanted to see what the absolute max overclock I could get without artifact/+75C temp. I used ATI Tool to find maxes for the clocks and for stability.

I got nervous so I stopped at:
687/1374/1033
Max Temp: 68C
Average: 65C

The GPU maxed at 687.2 as 687.4 was artifacting.
The clock on the otherhand was insane! It kept going and going! I decided to stop at 1033 because I was getting nervous, but who knows it might keep going...

I ran 3dmark @ 1280 x 800 (I know I know I'll do a 1440x900 soon, I don't have 1280x1024 option):
687/1374/1033 - 6543 (2752 - 2664 - 2200)
Max Temp: 72C
Average: 68C

3dmark did not show any artifacting (my eyes were glued to the screen )
I know I wont be running these speeds regularly, but I wasn't expending the clock to go that high especial without the temp increase...

Just incase there is doubt:


Edit:
Here is 3dmark06 @ 1440x900 -
687/1374/1033 - 5889 (2460 - 2309 - 2204)
Max Temp: 73C
Average: 68C

sorry for bigness :|

 

As per you WOW issues, it is probably drivers.

 

if you want pictures of 3dmark at 1280x800 let me know.
Wonder how the 1440x900 (max resolution) compares to 1280x1024.

This was done after lots of tweaking and testing so don't be dumb and try to quickly jump to +1000 clocks.

As the temps show it didn't even go above stock clock temperatures (for me its 72-75C under prolonged max load).

 

That's absolutely fine. However, you cannot compare that score with others run at 1280x1024. A benchmark only works if everything is standardized. Running 3DMark at 1280x800 gives you a good 500-1000 point boost. Thus, that's not a valid score.

We've found that 1440x900 matches well with 1280x1024. It seems that the vertical pixels are more intensive to render than horizontal ones. I have no clue why.

 

I will give you that Lithus. I spaced the fact that because my 1280x800 laptop screen, 3dmark would just default to that. Anyways, hooked it up to my 24" dell and it did run at the 1280x1024, but I will netted 5824.

 

I'll believe that. +300 is much more believable than +500 from what you would get with and OC'd 8600m GT.

 

Whoa, that is an insane memory clock.
Just remember you are measuring the core temp not the memory temp (w/ that clock the memory could be extremely high) The 8600mgt doesn't have a memory temp sensor like the core does.
But if you said you didn't see any artifacts, i guess you're fine
Congrats

 

Actually, you're 100% WRONG, it's funny because you're so confident in yourself.

I agree with everything else you've posted in this thread, clearly the score posted was achieved with 1280x800 resolution on Tusin's screen (I figured this given his clock settings vs score) however you're off the mark when you say this particular card won't achieve 6k @ 1280x1024. It has and it will.

Two users on this forum that I know of (myself and halkyon) have the cards running 100% stable at 685 core / 1000 memory (actually I'm at 685 / 1010) and at those settings the card will touch 6000 in 3dmark06 @ 1280x1024. I have a WUXGA screen and he has WSXGA+ so the correct default resolution is achieved.

With:
177.35 driver ~6080
174.31 driver ~5980

I've found the 174.31 provides better performance in a wider array of games hence I'm running that currently. Core will cause artifacting beyond 685mhz, and memory will cause texture swapping beyond 1010mhz. Those are the limits on my notebook, but you can see above someone has gone slightly higher stably. I'm running AS5 on the CPU/GPU and GPU temp tops out at 76-77deg after hours of gaming. [email protected] CPU if it matters.

The 8600M-GT in DDR3 guise pretty well matches the 7950GTX interestingly enough, because the 7950 runs much hotter in stock guise and therefore can't be overclocked as much. At maximum stable clocks they will both wind up in the (very) low 6000's @ 1280x1024.

Hope that clears some things up.