Rage 128 Ranking




I need to find the right driver for AM3 or a card with more memory.

P8Z77-V Deluxe Reference Clock WR

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P8Z77-V Premium Reference Clock WR

P9X79 Pro Reference Clock WR + X79 Overall Reference Clock WR

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M5A99X Evo Reference Clock WR + 990X Overall Reference Clock WR

GeForce GT 540M Ranking

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Most of it was quite easy but for the old benchmarks such as 01, AM3, 03 and 05 where I had to compete against Core i7 2670QM with a 2630QM. Also the efficiency of the Toshiba is really bad, the ASUS I had back in the days was much more efficient.

AM3 was the most difficult one, took me ages (15 hours). I was stuck around 155K and the goal (Ragna #1) was a bit more than 159K.

Since I didn't have any better processor to swap with, the GF GT 540M is integrated to the laptop's motherboad (not MXM) and I really wanted that last gold cup I chose to test different drivers to find the best one that hopefully would give a 4K+ boost.
I have downloaded 197 different drivers and tested them all, only 52 were compatible with this notebook so I did bench all those 52 drivers under AM3 to pick up the best driver.
Turned out there is a difference up to 5K between a driver to another and that the fastest driver wasn't the best, the driver for the final score had to be picked up wisely. When I had all results I selected two drivers (the overall fastest one and the fastest one of a series of driver that was acting different). The second one is the one that allowed me to grab the gold, the fastest one didn't allow me to pass 157K.

All this trouble for a gold/0.5pts but at least now the domination is complete. I really wanted to have 'em all :P

Some results could have been pushed further but I am out now and target was completed !

C-C-C-C-COMBO WH*RE !

Nice domination here, really.

Crap ... sometimes you're just sick!