Post your 3D Mark Firestrike scores

[paulpicks21]

My two Gigabyte GTX 970 G1's should be here today. I'm excited to start pushing them to their limits. I know 3 7950's have a lot of raw power, but they rarely scale well in games. I think the only time i've ever seen all 3 of them in the upper 90's is during 3dmark, which doesn't benefit me well in the real world. From what I understand Nvidia scales a lot better in games and even if they don't, 1 970 is almost on the same level as a 780 ti, so I think i'll be a lot happier all the way around.

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I'm also very excited to be able to use my Nvidia Shield tablet to it's fullest. I love the tablet, but always felt like I was missing out having ati cards.

Look forward to your scores mate.

 

[SikMindZ]

First run, absolutely stock, no tweaking.

Firestrike score - 16498

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4770K,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VI HERO

I'm new to SLI, but is it normal for the main card to run at a higher voltage? The cards are identical and run at the exact same speeds, but the main runs at 1.225 under load and the secondary runs at 1.181. Needless to say that makes the main run noticeably hotter, about 10c hotter.

Anyways...these scores are FANTASTIC, they blow my old trifire out of the water. I'm in love, can't wait to give these puppies some tweaking, although i'm pretty happy with stock.

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If you do update, don't forget my G1 badge

 

[SikMindZ]

After a little tweaking. I'm pretty happy with this score.

Firestrike score - 18016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4770K,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VI HERO

 

[Dude]

Updated

 

[paulpicks21]

Excellent score SikMindZ

 

[ganjiry]

Very nice score SikMindz, good job mate

 

[essenbe]

Good score, well done.

 

[SikMindZ]

Thanks Guys, I appreciate it.

I think this is all she's got without pumping the voltage or modding the bios
1571mhz Core and 7830mhz Memory

Firestrike Score - 18287
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4770K,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VI HERO

In all fairness though, It's the extra 2 processor cores that are holding back my score. My graphics score is the best, but it's that darn physics:devil:
I'm content with what I have though, they perform like gaming graphics gods.

 

[Dude]

Nice bump, updated the chart for you!

 

[Master Turkey]

2x MSI r9 280 Gaming 3G. Software differences. Ran a bunch of tests with different softwares. ALL AT 720p.

Labeled NoAPPS, but I believe the MSI Gaming APP was running. I could be wrong.



Using MSI Gaming APP on OC setting. (I believe this was a forced OC of the CPU to 4.4ghz, which I haven't had good results with as seen below. I mostly just leave the turbo on)



Lastly. MSI Afterburner CC @ 1095 / M @ 1350 (CPU Turbo On, no forced CPU OC)

 

[SikMindZ]

Nice scores man. I used to have 3 7950's, which is the exact same card as the 280 and it's not worth the 3rd card to be honest, it only gives you maybe a 2000 bump in 3dmark and crossfire scales horribly in games as i'm sure you know and they are power hungry as hell.

If you'll notice in your 2nd score, your physics score was noticeably higher. If you can replicate that and still have your graphics maxxed out, then you should be able to go higher on those scores. I used to be able to get around 1150 or so on the cores and 1500 on the memory when I had 2, putting the 3rd hindered my overclocks, but was still able to hit 1500 on the memory pretty easily.

Anyways, I have a lot of experience with those cards if you ever need any help. What are you running your voltage at on them? They can handle a healthy voltage increase pretty well usually.

 

[Master Turkey]

Nice scores man. I used to have 3 7950's, which is the exact same card as the 280 and it's not worth the 3rd card to be honest, it only gives you maybe a 2000 bump in 3dmark and crossfire scales horribly in games as i'm sure you know and they are power hungry as hell.

If you'll notice in your 2nd score, your physics score was noticeably higher. If you can replicate that and still have your graphics maxxed out, then you should be able to go higher on those scores. I used to be able to get around 1150 or so on the cores and 1500 on the memory when I had 2, putting the 3rd hindered my overclocks, but was still able to hit 1500 on the memory pretty easily.

Anyways, I have a lot of experience with those cards if you ever need any help. What are you running your voltage at on them? They can handle a healthy voltage increase pretty well usually.

No voltage increase so far. Nervous to try. I would be interested to pick your brain for *stable* voltage numbers. I'm only running the 1095 because it's the only stable numbers I could find on the innerwebs. Again, nervous to damage anything as it's a new set up for me. Anything over early 2000 numbers seems new to me, lol. So obviously I'm very happy. BUT I would like to push her as far as she can go stable wise, and then keep her there. So yes, I'd love to pick your brain. Any major issues at 1150 or was that stable? same question for the memory at 1500??

And ya, not so happy about the power hungry'ness but I did just upgrade to a 1300 psu (evga g2). So I should be good there.

 

[SikMindZ]

they can handle 1250 voltage all day long. And yes 1150 was my rock solid stable core number, same with 1500 on memory. I could go up to around 1180, but would occasionally have problems, so i left them alone at 1150. I would say jump to 1200 on voltage and see how they do, what I mean by that is watch your core and vrm temps, try to keep core below 80 as a rule of thumb and vrm below 95-100. I have a corsair 1000 watt and was able to run 3 of them heavily overclocked all day long without problems. My 12v rail never went below 11.8 even under heavy benchmarking. My power supply can handle up to 83 amps, it idles around 20 amps and under heavy load would go up to 55. With my new cards however it only goes up to maybe 40.

 

[Master Turkey]

they can handle 1250 voltage all day long. And yes 1150 was my rock solid stable core number, same with 1500 on memory. I could go up to around 1180, but would occasionally have problems, so i left them alone at 1150. I would say jump to 1200 on voltage and see how they do, what I mean by that is watch your core and vrm temps, try to keep core below 80 as a rule of thumb and vrm below 95-100. I have a corsair 1000 watt and was able to run 3 of them heavily overclocked all day long without problems. My 12v rail never went below 11.8 even under heavy benchmarking. My power supply can handle up to 83 amps, it idles around 20 amps and under heavy load would go up to 55. With my new cards however it only goes up to maybe 40.

How do I monitor temps when playing? Do I use benchmarking software and then check results after running? I've never messed with voltage. I know it's an option in Afterburner too... So it shouldn't be rocket science to alter the numbers but how do I check / monitor temps? And I like hearing a new rock solid stable CC and Memory. That's a decent bump from what I've been running too. Thanks.

 

[paulpicks21]

Usually you can use a screen overlay in the overclocking software to display temps real time when gaming. I assume Afterburner has the feature if you dig around in the settings. But I find in some benchmarks such as this one it doesn't display them at all. Afterburner should record the min/max temps while running it though I think so you can check afterwards.

Added

 

[Master Turkey]

New Results using SikMindz "stable" settings. cc 1150 / mem 1500. Using Afterburner. Dual MSI R9 280s.

 

[Dude]

updated

 

[SikMindZ]

they can handle 1250 voltage all day long. And yes 1150 was my rock solid stable core number, same with 1500 on memory. I could go up to around 1180, but would occasionally have problems, so i left them alone at 1150. I would say jump to 1200 on voltage and see how they do, what I mean by that is watch your core and vrm temps, try to keep core below 80 as a rule of thumb and vrm below 95-100. I have a corsair 1000 watt and was able to run 3 of them heavily overclocked all day long without problems. My 12v rail never went below 11.8 even under heavy benchmarking. My power supply can handle up to 83 amps, it idles around 20 amps and under heavy load would go up to 55. With my new cards however it only goes up to maybe 40.

How do I monitor temps when playing? Do I use benchmarking software and then check results after running? I've never messed with voltage. I know it's an option in Afterburner too... So it shouldn't be rocket science to alter the numbers but how do I check / monitor temps? And I like hearing a new rock solid stable CC and Memory. That's a decent bump from what I've been running too. Thanks.

Congrats on the scores bro! Very healthy score increase. You will see much better real world gaming framerate increases than you will firestrike score increases.

I've always used hwinfo. Just run a google search for it, it's free and I think you're going to love it once you see what all you can keep monitored. You have one or two monitors? I have two and usually keep all my monitoring software running on the second when I'm gaming, that way I can know if something is up and not find out the hard way. Also, if those settings are stable for you, then you can start to slowly increase until you get errors, then if you're still at 1.200 and your temps are ok, you can slowly work your way up to 1.250 to see if that stabilizes things. I'd suggest 1.225 then 1.250. If your temps are still ok after that, only go up to maybe .0012 at a time, but I personally wouldn't go any higher than 1.275ish, to me after that, you're pushing safety. However for an all day overclock, I wouldn't go any higher than 1.250 or 1.256 on the voltage.. Happy overclocking! Welcome to the club, man.

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If your cpu can handle 4.4 since it's the 4790k, I'd do it, It will probably put you over the 13,000 mark on firestrike. Mine can only do 4.3 and stay stable, mine's the 4770k. Also, make sure you're increasing your uncore/cpu cache, i'd say up to 4.2. If you do though, make sure to increase your voltage, i'd say an offset of .180-190 should be sufficient for stability. Are you leaving your cpu voltage on auto when you oc it? If you are, that's why you're having stability issues. The haswell can handle up to 1.350 before it starts to degrade, however I wouldn't ever go above 1.325 for an all day OC.

 

[SikMindZ]

Hey, btw guys. When did I earn the honor of becoming a member?
I appreciate whoever did that, makes me feel special, hehe

 

[paulpicks21]

Hey, btw guys. When did I earn the honor of becoming a member?
I appreciate whoever did that, makes me feel special, hehe

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