Let me be the first, this morning with my system at my every day settings RIVE with 3970X @ 4600mhz all power savings enabled memory at 1600mhz and a GTX 780 at default settings I ran 3DMARK on my win 7 drive with a score of 8909, I booted to my win 8 drive (no tweaks as I don't know how to tweak win 😎 got a score of 9300. Almost 400 points. Makes me want to learn some tweaks for win 8
ARNE,
Do you have any suggestions on eliminating services in win 8?
ARNE,
Do you have any suggestions on eliminating services in win 8?
Did you go into services and start Futumark after Diagnostic startup
Well windows 8 is not different or more difficult to strip or run with little services ass possible. All things like running in performance mode and diagnostic mode work exactly like in windows 7. I have noticed that in some benchmarks windows 8 scores better, but also some bugged results ass well. I do think it is better equipped for running multithreaded benchmarks.It however gets corrupted very easy and if it tries to fix it has happend that the OS was useless and needed fresh install. Also if you install without ms account you get locked out of super admin controls.
Great initiative, WhitePaw! :cool:
Hm... I sincerely never tried to strip down the Win7... I'm planning to learn it, just not get there yet... - so, if anyone has a link to some nice guide, I would be glad to read it... 🙂
As general rules I use to follow when benchmarking some 3DMarks are to keep the temps as low as possible... - it sounds logic, but how to get them?
The answer is to spend time with your system and experiment the best conditions for low temps... and here I don't mean low voltages! I mean things like run your fans at max during (in case of the air-cooled components) the benchmarking, monitor your temps and start a benchmark when your temps are the lowest. When water-cooling, you really have to figure out the most optimal pump speed/flow rate and the best fan settings - max them all out and most likely you will run on a completely un-balanced/un-optimised settings...
An other general rule of mine (not only in 3D benchmarking): restart your system before each run...
When I start a new session, I usually let the system to run on stock settings first... during that I'm trying to find the optimal settings for the OS, monitor settings, driver settings... Then chose one of the CPU, RAM and find the best settings individually and together for them... then find out the best GPU and VRAM settings... and finally bring all those together! Yes, this is the systematic approach, which will take time... but that's the most fun for me in benching... while I'm finding the best settings... - when you found them and you got your final score, that's a short glory or disappointment and that's it... so, if you want to have real fun, just spend time with your hardware... 🙂
Hm... I sincerely never tried to strip down the Win7... I'm planning to learn it, just not get there yet... - so, if anyone has a link to some nice guide, I would be glad to read it... 🙂
As general rules I use to follow when benchmarking some 3DMarks are to keep the temps as low as possible... - it sounds logic, but how to get them?
The answer is to spend time with your system and experiment the best conditions for low temps... and here I don't mean low voltages! I mean things like run your fans at max during (in case of the air-cooled components) the benchmarking, monitor your temps and start a benchmark when your temps are the lowest. When water-cooling, you really have to figure out the most optimal pump speed/flow rate and the best fan settings - max them all out and most likely you will run on a completely un-balanced/un-optimised settings...
An other general rule of mine (not only in 3D benchmarking): restart your system before each run...
When I start a new session, I usually let the system to run on stock settings first... during that I'm trying to find the optimal settings for the OS, monitor settings, driver settings... Then chose one of the CPU, RAM and find the best settings individually and together for them... then find out the best GPU and VRAM settings... and finally bring all those together! Yes, this is the systematic approach, which will take time... but that's the most fun for me in benching... while I'm finding the best settings... - when you found them and you got your final score, that's a short glory or disappointment and that's it... so, if you want to have real fun, just spend time with your hardware... 🙂
