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    Getting low benchmarks not sure hown to fix.

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by SCromie, Jan 15, 2016.

  1. SCromie

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    I got my brand new 17 r3 with i7 6820hk 980m 8gig. I am getting 7502 on stock. I have selected high performance and have updated drivers and win10. Not sure what's going on in get good number on cpu with it being between 10000-11000 though graphics just in mid 8000 resulting in getting 7502 from fire strike. What could be going on and how could I fix it?


    Have not connected my GA and 980ti to run Firestrike yet. Wanted to get the other fixed first
     
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    look your power plan, set as high performance. install de VBIOS from premamod.com
     
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    Can you post your link to your firestrike score?
     
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    I am set on high performance. How would I install the vBios and is it safe?
     
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    Thanks, Here's my results:
    http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7022079

    I'm about 800 more than you and not sure why. The only real difference is the driver version. I also see our gpu clocks are different, but yours looks like it just checked while in use, mine while idling. I'm assuming you didn't OC anything.
     
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    Not on that one. I wanted to run pure stock and see what it was. To me that still seems low, could be wrong. I ignorantly used XTU on one attempt and got it to 7598 but that is not much of a gain. I have not attempted to OC the GPU as I dont know how to work with Razor's program correctly
     
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    So Dont know WTF is going on. Tried a quick GPU overclock with Afterburner and my firestrike score was worse.............
     
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    At least the CPU is fine, so that means there's a problem with the GPU.
    Roll back to either the Dell driver or a pre-360 Nvidia driver. See what difference that makes (use DDU to uninstall your current Nvidia driver).
     
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    Placing settings back to normal I only get to 7221 not even my base
     
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    Rolled to a pre-360 driver as suggested only got 7340 on firestrike
     
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    Do you have the latest BIOS?
    Made sure nothing else or very little is running in the background when running 3DMark?
    Did a different 3DMark test (like 3DMark11)?
    How did you uninstall the Nvidia drivers?
     
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    I have no idea about the BIOS, Never installed or updated it,

    Have not done another 3dmark test
    I installed the new 980ti driver and just installed a previous one for the 980m
     
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    Just checked my Bios - Reads as alienware 15 r2 for my system...... that does not makes any since at all
     
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    Bios Version 1.2.3
     
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