3d Mark, 7811FX, and real life

Hey guys. Finally got the xfastest driver and Nvidia system tool and got overclocking.

I got a 9300 at one point, and haven't been able to repeat it. 9100 is my next highest score, and that isn't with the highest overclocks. The higher I overclock, the lower my scores seem.

Is this normal? Is there some throttling going on? Does a lower 3d mark score mean lower game performance? Or is it possible that even though my scores go lower with higher overclocks, my game performance would increase? I know 3d Mark doesn't translate to real life gaming situations, but I DO wonder if its increases and decreases directly correlate to gaming.

 

Your GPU might be throttling. That's the only thing I can think of.

 

Does anyone else have input? Is there a way I can prevent the GPU throttling?

 

Run hwmonitor when you 3dmark and see if your Tzs0 hits 98c then you know theres throttling going on . Sometimes overclocking the GPU to much can result in lower scores, as there is usually a sweet spot you hit with OCing and anything over that will result in lower scores.

 

That's the thing, it shows my desktop between tests, and I'm still not going over 70c. (That's using the temp reading with Nvidia system monitor)

 

As for lower gaming performance if you had a variance of say 2-300 points in 3d mark that may equate to a frame or 2 in most games so honestly you need to spend sometimes playing some of your favorite games and run fraps and see if it ever throttles on you , other then that i would not worry about it .

 

So, I noticed that my score was literally dropping, each time I ran 3dmark, no matter what I set my clocks to. I figured out that if I restart 3dmark between tests, I get consistent scores. So, 9550 seems to be where I landed using 700/997/1792.

Anyone know why I'd get lower scores each test when not restarting 3dmark?

 

i'm not really familiar with these things but i'd have to go with "it probably has something to do with the video cache you use everytime you run 3dmark"

 

my best oc result is 20% overclocked(720 core clock) and stable,
9600+ 3d06.
but in game fps didnt improve, actaul dropped a lil bit.
tested on oblivion stable, crashed on crysis.

 

My 3DMark score was 4200. In the CPU tests, I was getting between half and a single frame a second. I did notice in CPUID Hardware monitor that TZS0 spiked to 98C but TZS1 never got over 49C. Anything I can do to fix that?

*Edit* I reran it again and saw 8400ish score and am now questioning if the score was 4200 or 8200 the first time... However, the 98C TZS0 spike is real *end edit*

 

that is to be expected. its a physics processing test to see how well the cpu handles physics.