PC Benchmarked, your thoughts?

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I have always been super paranoid about my PC under-performing, and these results have defiantly not helped. Especially the 3D Mark, as I am in the significantly lower performing group:

3D Mark: P7634 3DMarks
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Performance Test: 2859.1

Unigine Heaven DX11 Benchmark: 1479

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So what do you guys think? Am I just being overly cautious or do you rate I have real performance issues that I should look into. Also, I am interested in what sort of results did you guys get for these benchmarks if you have done them.
 
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killadoob said:
What drivers are you using?

What two cards do you have in crossfire?
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Im using AMD 11.6 (which is the latest). I don't know how it could be a software thing, because yesterday I formatted my PC and re-installed everything (updating all my drivers).

I have two 6950's in crossfire.
 
CPU score looks good if you running stock clocks
Unigine looks a bit low, but with so many setting to fiddle with its difficult to do a direct compare
 
Did you run it on 11.5? I can tell you i have read about issues with the ati drivers and 6900 series in crossfire.

Bare in mind that pc health check will tell you there is something regardless i would imagine.
 
Just remember that the scores that it's being compared with are just from people running with the same specs, but NOT with the same drivers, clock or memory speeds per say.

You'd probably end up in the middle column if you just overclock your CPU to 4.5GHz and unlock the shaders on the HD6950's.
 
Pada said:
Just remember that the scores that it's being compared with are just from people running with the same specs, but NOT with the same drivers, clock or memory speeds per say.

You'd probably end up in the middle column if you just overclock your CPU to 4.5GHz and unlock the shaders on the HD6950's.
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Yeah, but surely seeing that I have stock speeds I would be seeing myself in the mid range as most people don't over-clock.

Did you run it on 11.5? I can tell you i have read about issues with the ati drivers and 6900 series in crossfire.
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I ran it on 11.6. Ye thx, I think I'll look into that and see if anyone is having similar problems.

CPU score looks good if you running stock clocks
Unigine looks a bit low, but with so many setting to fiddle with its difficult to do a direct compare
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Ye I think it is my Graphics cards that are to blame =/ Why did I go crossfire.
 
Nicko said:
Yeah, but surely seeing that I have stock speeds I would be seeing myself in the mid range as most people don't over-clock.

Ye I think it is my Graphics cards that are to blame =/ Why did I go crossfire.
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Most people that run benchmarks and submit them online DO overclock. So no, at stock you would definitely not end up in the midrange.

Also other people have gotten roughly the same score on higher settings for the GPU. And who cares about benchmarks when its gaming FPS that really matters, unless you need a bigger e-peen? :p
 
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Dude run furmark, there was a furmark thread awhile back. Check your scores.

there is nothing wrong with crossfire apart from ati being a bit slow to update certain games.
 
Archer said:
Most people that run benchmarks and submit them online DO overclock. So no, at stock you would definitely not end up in the midrange.

Also other people have gotten roughly the same score on higher settings for the GPU. And who cares about benchmarks when its gaming FPS that really matters, unless you need a bigger e-peen?
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Nothing to do with wanting to have a "bigger e-penis". Its about making sure that I don't have a faulty GPU and get what I paid for. I have also noticed lag in games. For example Home Front was actually unplayable for me, but I brushed it off thinking it couldn't possibly be my pc's fault (now im not too sure), and Metro 2033 on the rare occasion did lag for a second or two.
 
Furmark (as previously stated) is a better test to see if you have a faulty GPU. Metro at full settings will cripple any and every setup out there today so I wouldnt worry about that too much. Cant comment on Homefront
 
kk thanks for the advice, I'll run Furmark later tonight/tomorrow and get back to you guys.
 
Use the CPUID software (CPU-z/GPU-z) to ensure that your graphics cards are running at 16x, because that is usually the first problem with SLI/CrossFire setups that under performs.
 
Pada said:
Use the CPUID software (CPU-z/GPU-z) to ensure that your graphics cards are running at 16x, because that is usually the first problem with SLI/CrossFire setups that under performs.
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With his mobo they should be running x8 since it cant run higher with two GPUs. Should only account for 5% or less performance drop however
 
Thanks Archer, I didn't notice he had the Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard which only supports 8x + 8x.
 
Well technically my mobo is now P8Z68-V as it was "upgraded" seeing that my other one was one of those faulty intel mobos .

I did the FurMark benchmark and it performed decently.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/furmark_score_180.php?id=daab8009ea438265014badc7993cbaf3

Last thing and if you guys still think I am being too paranoid, then I will concede defeat and go on with my life.

Compared my results with some review 3D Mark Scores,
3D Mark 11: 8740 14.49% better
3D Mark 11: 8687 13.79%
Unigine Heaven 2.1: 80.53 37.19%

My 3D Mark 11: 7634
My Unigine heaven: 58.7
 
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