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My CPU is a i7-920, OC'ed to 4.02 GHz, on a R3E, cooled by a Zalman CNPS10X Performa.
I ran 3DMark Vantage Professional, 1.0.2, and the CPU score was way below other people with similar hardware (and lower frequency) are getting.
Please take a loot at the following image:
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/628/3dmarknomad.jpg
Other people with the very same config are getting CPU scores in the range of 39K up to 48K in 3DMark Vantage.
what can I tweak in order to improve my scores?
Thanks!
I ran 3DMark Vantage Professional, 1.0.2, and the CPU score was way below other people with similar hardware (and lower frequency) are getting.
Please take a loot at the following image:
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/628/3dmarknomad.jpg
Other people with the very same config are getting CPU scores in the range of 39K up to 48K in 3DMark Vantage.
what can I tweak in order to improve my scores?
Thanks!
There are a few things I've like to point out:
1) it is a good practise highly suggestly by me, that having screenshots with cpu-z, realtemp & gpu-z when posting a screenshot to show others. I make it much easier for others to understand one's system detailed config. Good stuff!
2) Nvidia's GPU drivers will enable PhysX By default (you can see on GPU-Z that physX is checked). Also, 3Dmark Vantage's CPU benchmarks will run it on GPU if you have physX enabledGPUs. Therefore, what you did is running the CPU benches on the GPU by cuda cores. So for sure, it will give you much better performance than CPU. Also, I pretty sure the people you are comparing to did the same. In overclocking scene & competitions, physX enable runs are not aprroved (ie. by HWbots), I personally think it doesn't give a good perspective how fast a system is rated. I personally only judge any brand of cards using physX disabled runs, for a fair comparison, and that's benchmarks are for.
3) Score wise, PhysX disabled runs you should get about 24k CPU score on a 4Ghz i7 920. My 980X @4ghz gets about 36k cpu score. and I posted another rig I had, which is the 2nd screenshot, It is physX run (GPU-Z has bug) can gets me a CPU score of 49k ppd. Even though your benchmark is a physX run, the CPU score is lower than normal. Definitely have to look into that
4) Vcore you got there is too high, i7 920 D0 will need about 1.3V or less. That is dangerously
high and have you run stress test on it?
Current rig no physX:
Old rig with physX enabled:
1) it is a good practise highly suggestly by me, that having screenshots with cpu-z, realtemp & gpu-z when posting a screenshot to show others. I make it much easier for others to understand one's system detailed config. Good stuff!
2) Nvidia's GPU drivers will enable PhysX By default (you can see on GPU-Z that physX is checked). Also, 3Dmark Vantage's CPU benchmarks will run it on GPU if you have physX enabledGPUs. Therefore, what you did is running the CPU benches on the GPU by cuda cores. So for sure, it will give you much better performance than CPU. Also, I pretty sure the people you are comparing to did the same. In overclocking scene & competitions, physX enable runs are not aprroved (ie. by HWbots), I personally think it doesn't give a good perspective how fast a system is rated. I personally only judge any brand of cards using physX disabled runs, for a fair comparison, and that's benchmarks are for.
3) Score wise, PhysX disabled runs you should get about 24k CPU score on a 4Ghz i7 920. My 980X @4ghz gets about 36k cpu score. and I posted another rig I had, which is the 2nd screenshot, It is physX run (GPU-Z has bug) can gets me a CPU score of 49k ppd. Even though your benchmark is a physX run, the CPU score is lower than normal. Definitely have to look into that
4) Vcore you got there is too high, i7 920 D0 will need about 1.3V or less. That is dangerously
high and have you run stress test on it?
Current rig no physX:
Old rig with physX enabled:
I wouldn't mind of the CPU or GPU score. For some reason time teach me that some time you will bench at 4.0Ghz and cpu score will be around 20K, then getting it to 4.05 will push the CPU score to like 35 000. Just look the overall big score. Also, so many thing can change CPU or GPU score that it can be longgggg to find what.
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