3DMark06 Available (and post your scores)
 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6142457.html

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Ohhhhhh! :tu: :Yes: Looks nice!

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This is going to depress everyone just like 3d Mark 05 did when it crawled along on the CPU tests at like 2-3 fps (if you were lucky); still looking forward to it though as I haven't really upgraded anything since and it'll be interesting to see how poorly my machine stacks up.

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looks sexy but I dont think my computer will be too happy with this or I wont be happy at all with the result.

specs:

P4 3.2GHz
Ram 1.5 GB of PC 2700
ATI X800XT not overclocked.

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I will give this a miss. My Athlon XP2100 struggled to run the 2005 version.

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no disrespect intended, but I'm glad I don't worry about such things anymore, my PC will never be top of the range (got sick of wasting so much cash on it over the years) so if I want to play games, I use my XBox 360, works every time, no more downloading patches for the brand new game I've just bought, no more updates to sound/graphics cards etc just to get the thing working.
My PC just does internet now, word processing, and my new hobby, digital photography.

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Thats the way im going - PC Gaming is too much of a pain in the **** these days.

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Wimps! :p: :D

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Im still an avid player of a game I first played in 2001 (Medal of Honor)I upgrade every year just cuz I can and play all the new FPS's but still come back to MoH.
As for 3dmark 2006 im gonna be interested to see what my x2 does if any

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LOL, true! :D

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Agree with zinglebarb, MOH is 1st class, but now I can play them (FPS games) without worry on the 360. When I get good enough, I'll try to challenge you on COD2 (not that for a moment do I honestly think I'd beat you, the king):D

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I'll give it a go on my 9800 XT and P4 3.2GHZ Extreme Edition, even though it may just crawl (but it's good just to test it for stability).

Once I get my FX-55 and X850XT PE I'll run it again :)

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Getting problems is half the fun :D

Your 360 not crashing then? :cool:

The only thing that bothers me is the current trend of jacking prices up for the best hardware, being an enthusiast is expensive work these days.

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Agree in full with your 1st & 3rd comments. I used to chase techno, had to have the best mobo, fastest graphics cards, best sound cards/speakers, forever tweaking this, that and everything, and for what, a piece of game software bugged to death even before I get it on day of release:(
I counted up last night what I'd foolishly spent on PC gear and upgrades, and scared myself, nearly £9,000: shocked:
Never again.
Regarding the Xbox 360, I read about the crashing, and instead of the silly money I'd spent on PC gear, spent the outrageuos sum of 99p at Wilkinsons for 4 large tall rubber feet, stuck them on each corner of the power supply brick provided by microsoft, and never had probs since:)

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I would buy a 360 IF the games werent 40 quid plus, and thats online. Paying more than 30 quid seems way to steep IMO.

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I think that was by design! The scenes being rendered was just using the raw CPU power to create them to gauge how well the CPU performed the task, no help from the Video Hardware whatsoever, so it's no surprise they crawled along at <3 fps.

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Downloading, but all of the servers are running slow due to the demand.

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CPU tests are just pathetic. 0.2 frames a second? Come on FutureMark!

The tests for people with Pixel Shader 2 graphics cards just re-run 2 of the tests from 05 but with better graphics (but it's the exact same script running).

URL to my score (996): http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2589

Oh, default resolution is now 1280x1024, not 1024x768.

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crap waste of time,unless you pay for it or use one of the inevitable key gens that will follow this is a total waste of time

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Taking in the above posts I don't think I'll bother trying this :D

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http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5874

Not too bad :)

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I would like to know how my system performs, but i really cant be asked to download a 580MB file on a 1MB connection as its gonna take ages. Anyone recommend any other software that is free?

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If you use a keygen then you won't be able to use the online results browser which will end up making it even MORE crap.

Anyhow, I think it's fairly useful, especially for hardware performance comparison purposes.

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IIRC, you have a X600 Pro?

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I do agree and its a good cpu test I spose saving having to use prime so I concede it does have its uses

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Yeah

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Don't bother with 06 then unless you want to watch a photo slide-show.

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and ati's hardware stratagy becomes clear. the R580 (X1900) series of graphics chips contain only 16 pipelines and is rumoured to be able todo 48 shader operations per pass (that is up alot from the r520 and nvidia lot) so its going to kick ass at shader performance which just happens to be what 3dmark stresses most. I expect the x1900xt to be scoring 6000+ if not 7000+ points on this one.

The cpu test is mainly a physics test rather than a graphical one and supports the use of a ppu which when avaliable should make that section run alot faster.

Oh and out of interest my pc score 1011, (9800xt) the cpu tests heavily favour the amd chips as i score the same as a 1.8G A64 and i've got a 3G P4 (HT, 1000mhz fsb)

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crikey... missed this thread... downloading 3dmark06 now....

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No one was more suprised than me that it evan ran on my system - but the score I got was really bad :) Oh well - soon be time for an upgrage I think.

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5157

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=83839

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Is it even worth while benchmarking my system

athlon64 3000
ati x700 pro pci-e
1gig ram

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10713

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/re...=0&UID=7169879


My screen kept going black during the tests, what causes that and how do i resolve it?