Dodger
5 Mar 2005, 12:30am
Greetings all, today I got a brand new eVGA Geforce 6800 video card. I downloaded the latest drivers and all that jazz. I used Rivatuner and unlocked the extra pipelines and vertex shader things. Anyhow, needless to say, I was pumped. So, I ran 3Dmark 2003 and here's the score I got...
A whopping 5519. 0_o Shouldn't I be getting upwards to 9000+ in my scores? Like this guy...
(this is a review taken from newegg.com)
"Very fast card for the $$! No problems unlocking extra 4 pipes and shader with Riva Tuner. The stock cooling isn't that great though. Installed the NV 5 cooler and idle temps went from 52c to 42c stock! Must have for overclocking. Detected optimal oc'ing speeds with nvidia software....403/853!!(With NV 5) Have mine running @ 400/850 16p/6s, idles @ 46c =). Got this for a budget build. Waiting for all the new cards/cpu's this year before I spend a lot.
3d Mark 03 Scores:
8,350 Stock
9,166 16p/6s
10,737 400/850, 16p/6s, NV 5 Cooling
11,000+ 410/875 "" Getting a little close to stock ultra speeds :)
Will oc above 410/875 (stable) but I don't want to burn it up.
My system:
XP 1700+ @ 1.9ghz 400fsb
shuttle mb w\nforce 2 Ultra chipset
EVGA 6800 overclocked and unlocked
1gb pc3200 in dual channel
80gb 8mb wd se
Audigy 2 ZS
Klipsch 5.1 ultras
Win XP PRO SP2
Awesome card for the money!! Those of you with better processors out there (just about everybody) will probably see even higher scores. Thanks again new egg and fedex!!"
Here are my specs...
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (754 PIN)
Abit NF8
eVGA Geforce 6800 - Unlocked
1 stick of Samsung 256mb DDR PC2700 RAM
and 1 stick of Kingston 512mb DDR PC3200 RAM (768mb RAM total)
80gb Western Digital Hard-Drive 7200RPM
onboard sound card (nForce 4)
Windows XP (non-SP2)
Obviously, the only thing I don't have is the 1gb PC3200 RAM going for me. Could it really be making that much of a difference? Also, my harddrive is loaded with all kinds of Dreamcast games, Playstation games, N64 games, ect (i'm an emulation kinda guy). Anyway, everything takes up about 54 gigs of data on my harddrive. And I haven't run disk-defragmenter in a long time. Also, my old card was a Ti4200. I didn't uninstall anything seeing as how they're both nVidia brands. Could that be bogging it down? Anyway, I hope someone can help me fix this... thanks in advance.:)
EDIT: Just as a side note, everything works perfectly with everything unlocked. No artifacts, no nothing (tested with Half-Life 2 with everything maxed out).
A whopping 5519. 0_o Shouldn't I be getting upwards to 9000+ in my scores? Like this guy...
(this is a review taken from newegg.com)
"Very fast card for the $$! No problems unlocking extra 4 pipes and shader with Riva Tuner. The stock cooling isn't that great though. Installed the NV 5 cooler and idle temps went from 52c to 42c stock! Must have for overclocking. Detected optimal oc'ing speeds with nvidia software....403/853!!(With NV 5) Have mine running @ 400/850 16p/6s, idles @ 46c =). Got this for a budget build. Waiting for all the new cards/cpu's this year before I spend a lot.
3d Mark 03 Scores:
8,350 Stock
9,166 16p/6s
10,737 400/850, 16p/6s, NV 5 Cooling
11,000+ 410/875 "" Getting a little close to stock ultra speeds :)
Will oc above 410/875 (stable) but I don't want to burn it up.
My system:
XP 1700+ @ 1.9ghz 400fsb
shuttle mb w\nforce 2 Ultra chipset
EVGA 6800 overclocked and unlocked
1gb pc3200 in dual channel
80gb 8mb wd se
Audigy 2 ZS
Klipsch 5.1 ultras
Win XP PRO SP2
Awesome card for the money!! Those of you with better processors out there (just about everybody) will probably see even higher scores. Thanks again new egg and fedex!!"
Here are my specs...
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (754 PIN)
Abit NF8
eVGA Geforce 6800 - Unlocked
1 stick of Samsung 256mb DDR PC2700 RAM
and 1 stick of Kingston 512mb DDR PC3200 RAM (768mb RAM total)
80gb Western Digital Hard-Drive 7200RPM
onboard sound card (nForce 4)
Windows XP (non-SP2)
Obviously, the only thing I don't have is the 1gb PC3200 RAM going for me. Could it really be making that much of a difference? Also, my harddrive is loaded with all kinds of Dreamcast games, Playstation games, N64 games, ect (i'm an emulation kinda guy). Anyway, everything takes up about 54 gigs of data on my harddrive. And I haven't run disk-defragmenter in a long time. Also, my old card was a Ti4200. I didn't uninstall anything seeing as how they're both nVidia brands. Could that be bogging it down? Anyway, I hope someone can help me fix this... thanks in advance.:)
EDIT: Just as a side note, everything works perfectly with everything unlocked. No artifacts, no nothing (tested with Half-Life 2 with everything maxed out).