Show us your 3D Mark Vantage Benchmark scores

paulpicks21 said:

crankypenguin said:

I am thinking 1k euro budget. The rest....I have till mid December to figure out...AMD vs Intel is 50/50. I am not biased towards either, it's just that I never had a Intel desktop. I have had and have Intel based laptops and they all perform great. So I am slowly starting to look around. I am not going for SLI. Just one good graphics card, a solid 800~watt fully modular PSU and the chip. We will see.

That's not a bad budget, I am building a new rig tomorrow for my partners younger brother, he has a budget of £700/836 euro but that had to include absolutely everything for a new build including a monitor.

After a bit of messing around I came up with a decent enough list and he ordered them.

It had an i5 4670K, Z87 Mobo, 660ti and Corsair CX 600 psu. You can go a lot further on your budget.

I don't know how prices are where you live, but converting it, 1000 Euros here would get you something along the lines of this (I would normally suggest Ivybridge but it appears nearly all the good motherboards are gone now)

CPU - i5 4670K
Mobo - Z87 Sabertooth
GPU - GTX 780
PSU - Corsair RM 850 fully modular.

That comes in at 1059 Euros but would make for a killer rig for sure.

Thank you very much Paul for your detailed answer. I do have one question. I noticed that some of the intel chips come bundled with graphics and some without. Will this hurt overclocking in anyway, as I would prefer just a CPU not an APU if you know what I mean.

Dude said:

They do not lower your performance. With an IGPU, you always have a backup if your gpu fails.

I have my old XFX GeForce GTS 250 as backup, its PCIE 2.0 so it would work on any modern mobo.

paulpicks21 said:

To be honest most of the high end new CPU's have built in graphics, I would say nearly everyone in the OC leaderboards has a chip with built in graphics but most of us don't use them and just disable them. No it does not hurt performance at all.

Ok that answers my question. Thanks Paul

PS I also learned that there has to be a K in the chips name = unlocked. Guess you guys are slowly morphing me into a intel guy...but don't tell the AMD guys

paulpicks21 said:

MajorG said:

GPU OCed to 798Mhz (700Mhz original)
How good\bad is my score?
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i5-3470 Processor,Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H77M-D3H


EDIT: And without GPU OC: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i5-3470 Processor,Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H77M-D3H

Obviously it's not the highest of scores MajorG, but as long as the graphics card plays the games you want then that's all that matters. Don't worry too much about benchmark scores. We are just a bunch of benchmark junkies lol.

I have added you to the leaderboard.

Yeah I know.. Not looking to get the highest score, but I ask if my score is right for my specs.
I run BF3 on MED-HIGH 1920X1080 pretty fine, but still doesn't seem smooth enough..

Thanks anyway Paul.