After talking to Gamer last night, I now know this is not common knowledge. So, here's the post.

For DX11 benchmarks (3DMark11 and Heaven), you can reduce the tesselation level in the driver and get a major boost in performance. Just move the slider to the most left position to completely disable tesselation.

does this disable the feature ?

probable overrides the game settings, is there a workaround for NV? Regtweak?

heaven and 3D11 are not games; if there's a tessellation test and you disable it through the driver, that's the same as disabling 3D rendering for the 3D tests ;)

Yes, tesselation is disabled.

alright ^^ vacation :D
and home alone so benching and modding can finnaly be continued without having to stop to get some sleep. (I need to sleep since i do not wish to fall asleep behind the wheel in my car)

So lets get our litle board and prep is for some ss fun :)

And what board might that be?

wel actually the same one I used last time :D


a Gigabyte EX58-UD4P :)

and while we are speaking the ss is getting ready. Waiting until it gets around -45°


edit made it go bsod and then i shut everything down because my parents are buying me dinner :)

So, how did we get to top-10?

I can only see Leeghoofd's Q6600 entries. Nice work!

HWBot algorythm miscalculation :p

Thanks Luc for the board, she behaved quite well, sadly only 400 strap.

Though CPU has got more in it, went only -80°C max to save LN2... Think 4.75ish and maybe more on the P45 UD3P is possible for better pi and CPU-Z...

PCmark05 can be better too, but had not much time to try all the diff settings, only one run there...