Once your prelim is officially verified and entered you can post your best benchmarks here. I will rank all of these scores starting July 8th at midnight and will post my proposed team rosters on July 9th. If we all agree on the rosters I will forward them to Ray over at The Pit and we will move forward as A Team, B Team #1, B Team #2 etc. Each team will have their own clubhouse topic to do with as they wish.

You can post as many scores as you want here but please keep your results in-house. No need to tip our hand taunting other forums. Paulzig, Roderick or myself will verify the accuracy. Please post your scores as you would any official entry.

Right now my plan is to put the fas-*test*-('") 5 rigs in the A Team. This team will compete with every other A Team for the overall Forum Wars Crown. The next 5 fas-*test*-('") will go into B-Team #1 and the next 5 in B-Team #2 etc. B teams compete en-masse for the Tweaked Geek Crown.

If you have any problems with the above then please post it over in the lounge and we can hash it out. I am open to change on anything if the alternative makes more sense for our forum. That said, I believe our objective should be to win this thing if possible and take both crowns. IMHO I think the above plan gives us the best chance at that.

Waiting to hear from you all.

Ok fine lol.........I'll go first
This post will be updated with my current highest scores/setups til D-Day

3DMARK03 19174 <----current max - Date: 2006-07-22
CPU=3033MHz 337x9 - RAM=133 divider 216MHz 2-5-2-2 1t - HTT=3x - vid=559/1210 - NVidia 84.43

3DMARK05 9128 <----current max - Date: 2006-07-24
CPU=3100MHz 310x10 - RAM=133 divider 206MHz 2-5-2-2 1t - HTT=3x - vid=558/1197 - NVidia 84.43

3DMARK06 4687 <----current max - Date: 2006-07-24
CPU=3100MHz 310x10 - RAM=133 divider 206MHz 2-5-2-2 1t - HTT=3x - vid=564/1187 - NVidia 84.43


CRYSTALMARK09 141448<----current max - Date: 2006-07-24
CPU=3120MHz 312x10 - RAM=166 divider 260mhz 2.5-7-4-3 1t - HTT=3x - vid=425/1050 - NVidia 84.43
ALU 11721
FPU 13505
Mem 11090
HDD 14449

Forum Wars Total score: 74167 points
Forum Wars Stock score: 53764 points
Forum Wars Total Gains: 20403 points

OK, guess I'll go 2nd then.

3dmark03: 20134

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4847741

3dmark05: 9586

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2086094

3dmark06: 4743

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=360760


ALU: 9947

FPU: 11378

MEM: 8552

HDD: 7783

http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/r...ng.php?ID=60543

FORUM WARS SCORE: 62056

OK, I'm going to build mine up over several days with notes included on various OC settings. I'll post a final set at the end of the thread. I am not going to post these to the sites, I don't want anybody snooping the various results.

CM9: (stock: 19104, 21839, 11999, 20547)

12X250, Ram at 3-4-4-8 (13 and 15) DDR333
ALU 21954
FPU 25248
MEM 12288
HDD 28000

12X250, RAM at 3-4-4-8 (13 and 15) DDR400 (note this is rabidly unstable, but it runs! -- thanks WGF!)
ALU 21905
FPU 25251
MEM 13755
HDD 28000

14x214, RAM at 3-4-4-8 (13 and 15) DDR 400
ALU 21788
FPU 24195
MEM 12838
HDD 28000

14X221 -- Locks up

14X220 -- Locks up

14x218, RAM at 3-4-4-8 (13 and 15) DDR 400
ALU 22265
FPU 25619
MEM 13009
HDD 28000

Notes: you can overclock the h### out of your ram beyond what is stable with some multis and it still runs the -*test*-('") with superior results.

3D01: (stock 30970)

12x250 (as above) - Non-SLI
VGU at 529/807
32888
12x250 (as above) - SLI alternate frame rendering mode
33407
12x250 (as above) - SLI Single GPU rendering mode, Performance preferences
33490
At this point, I started having artifacting problems with further -*test*-('")s at higher overclocks and have had to back down and default settings. Cards now appear stable, but I'm a little gun shy about the 7900GTs.

Notes: Keep careful track of changes in performance settings, as it's easy to back yourself into a corner where nothing works.

Final note: I'm done for the inhouse competition. 7900GT#2 flaked out again. On a high note, the EVGA RMA support is top drawer! If you have not registered your EVGA cards yet for their support, do so.

Guess I'll go ahead and post em
I too will update with my current highest scores up til D-Day but as of now these are the best scores i can come up with:


3DMARK03 23512
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4842015

3DMARK05 11118
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2061049

3DMARK06 6264
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=337889


CRYSTALMARK09 137687
http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/r...ng.php?ID=60206

ALU 20765
FPU 23715
Mem 12829
HDD 28000



Forum Wars Total score: 114447 points

Forum Wars Stock score: 62368 points

Forum Wars Total Gains: 52079 points



*these scores are with adding 28k as my hdd score, without 28k hdd tweak the hdd score is 12031, forum wars total score is 98478, and the gain is 36110.*

As I've been extreme busy lately and I'm going on vacation tomorrow (I'll be home again in a week), I have not been able to overclock/tweak my rig to the max, so these scores are with my everyday overclock. This overclock is pretty close to the edge, so my final score won't be much higher than this!

Info:
Opteron 165@2600mhz (289x9) 1.42V (BIOS) 1.46V (actual)
2x512MB corsair 3200XL @ 2-2-2-5-1T (266 divider = 185.8mhz)
Western Digital 150gb Raptor
7800GTX 256mb @486 core & 1380 mem (modified BIOS with tighter timings)


3DMARK03 19049
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4675740

3DMARK05 9155
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1875555

3DMARK06 5035
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=183557


CRYSTALMARK09
http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/r...ng.php?ID=60769
ALU 19094
FPU 19222
Mem 12428
HDD 27240

Forum Wars Total score: 101699 points
Forum Wars Stock score: 80292 points
Forum Wars Total Gains: 21407points

what settings are u using on the card to get those 3dmark scores dman2ask??

looks like a volt modded 7900gt from my end....?

To be updated...

3DMark03 = 20810
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4853553

3DMark 05 = 9890
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2092685

3Dmark06 = 5568
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=367033

CM9 = 140139
http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/r...ng.php?ID=60771

ALU = 19973
FPU = 23453
MEM = 13787
HDD = 29699 (wihtout tweak = 15388)

Best Forum WARS total = 111076
Stock Forum WARS total= 84122
Gain --------------- = 26954

A8N-SLI Premium BIOS 1009
64 X2 4400+ @ 9x298 1.5V
2x512MB OCZ PC3200 HTF 3X DDR333 3.0V
XFX 7900 GT Extreme Edition 555/820 (1640)
2X36GB Raptors RAID 0
All AIR

Merc/Asus Independent

3d03
21954
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4858150

3d05
10151
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2097825

3d06
5147
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=372199

Crystalmark 9
http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/r...ng.php?ID=61055
ALU 23320
FPU 21126
Mem 13060
HDD 28000


Total 111781
Prelim 77385
Gain 34396



A64 3800X2 @ 2.6ghz
10 x 260
DDR Corsair PC4000
HDD's Western Digital 2 x 80Gb RAID 0
6800GT
Dual SLI VGA
Dual Core
Water Cooling

no volt mods, just a good ol 7900gt ko sc overclocked like mad!

Tyrent/Asus Independent

To be updated as needed

3d 03
15614
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4857714


3d 05
7452
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2097350


3d06
4091
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=372225




CM9
http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/r...ng.php?ID=61020

ALU 19721
FPU 21994
Mem 11108
HDD 31350 score only 28000 in calc.

Forum Wars Total 100180

Forum Wars Stock 74193

Forum Wars Gain 25987

OC
CPU 2600
Multi 333
FSB 260

Updated 05 July 06

JaxMacFL/AI


3d03
38,567
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4859737

3d05
15,405
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2099871

3d06
10,078
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=373916

cm9
http://crystalmark.info/CrystalMark/09en/r...ng.php?ID=61142

ALU = 22,699
FPU = 25,589
MEM = 12,656
HDD = 16,882

Forum War Score O/C : 122,593
Forum War Score stock: 104,826

Gain: 17,767

CPU: FX-60 x2 @ 2958
Multiplier/FSB: 14.5 X 204

Tyrent-
Neither 05 or 06 is valid as reported by ORB. Remember to go to Project manager, select display on your la-*test*-('") bench and then select publish. Copy the URL that appears in the little window right below that. It is the short URL

All-
lets run the in-house using the HDD tweak to calculate your score. I know it is F'ed up by we have to assume that the Pit, and other forums, are aware of it hence the cap at 28k. I'll set up a poll and you all can vote on whether or not we let the Pit know the program is flawed.

OK Merc sorry bout that I could of swore I checked those links will correct it thanks for the heads up