3dMark06 Available 1/18/06

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

http://www.gamespot.com/promos/2006/3dmark06/index.html

Can't wait to get it and try it out. Anxious to see how it does on my new gear (when that all finally arrives).

swank1 · Rated PG-13 Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

I guess that whole scandal about these having no indication of real life performance is just about over with? It was big in the news for a while, but the 3dMarks are still going strong... I guess all review sites use real games now instead of only relying on synthetics.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:00:49 Post Subject:

Or a bit of both, as using games is great but quantifying the results can be tricky and subjective.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Aye, for anything that would need benchmarks such as those, I tend to run both games and these standardized type of benchmarks. Then also give a person feel depending on the games I am playing at that time, since many of them do not have benchmarks for them (EQ2, WoW, SWG, DDO, CoV, etc.).

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:49:53 Post Subject:

Besides... it's always fun to watch the newest 3dmark CRUSH you're system into looking like an old Commodore Vic-20.

Spire · Posted: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:55:19 Post Subject:

My X850XT still only gets 1-2 FPS in parts of 3D05...

Can't wait to see the .25 FPS in 3D06

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

LOL I can't wait to see the results of 7800GT SLI

Should be interesting...

swank1 · Rated PG-13 Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

HackaX0rus · Posted: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:50:37 Post Subject:

i'm still rockin my 9800 pro...

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

OMG! On one of the CPU tests it REALLY killed my box...

Opteron 148
2GB ram
7800GT 256mb