I just ran it at the default settings once the program was installed didn't change a thing. Will have to pay for a copy of it tomorrow when I get paid, and was thinking of getting the discount you can get by trading in your old 3DMark 11 key but I am not sure.
What's funny is that apparently I have a score on 3D Mark Vantage Extreme that put's me in a category of my own lol http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/4582682
My friend just sent me a link to his score on this. See here Not sure what happened, but even TG would be proud of this CPU overclock
It renders at an internal resolution lower than most and then upscales which costs a very low overhead so scores are more comparable then they usually would be.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/392030 New^ http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/153487 Old^ Mainly for me to compare cpu speeds. Nice to see a 4.5ghz i5 3570k outperform a 4.7ghz i52500k. Now to de-lid, overclock a bit more (summon enthusiasm first though). Then concentrate on 7950 overclock.
Well I am currently doing allot of benchmarking, getting all my pre-upgrade results stored ready for once I have upgraded and I have found a issue with this benchmark for anyone running SLI/CF(X). Microsoft recently released a update and it has caused the Fire Strike test's to not use SLI/CF(X). This is from the 3D Mark site. Once I uninstalled it my Fire Strike results went from 2000 points to just short of 10,000 points.
There is a new version available of this benchmark, which fixes the multi gpu support and adds a few benchmarks. Might have to run this again tonight.
I love the new 3d Mark. I bought it on day of release via steam at discount. cloud gate looks stunning as does the fire strike. Oddly ice storm looks poor by comparison. Quite dated with lack of shadows lower res textures.
Heres my results for a stock 7870xt and stock i7 3820, icestorm 133673,cloudgate 19516,firestrike 5325. http://tinypic.com/r/2iiej9i/5
