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    Asus c90 low 3dmark06 scores?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by wonton25, Dec 17, 2007.

  1. wonton25

    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys I just recently got my c90 and decided to try 3dmark06. I have been getting really low scores, and was wondering if anyone knows what the deal is...

    E6600 2.4 GHz
    2 GB RAM
    256 MB 8600m gt DDR3

    Everything was left at stock, and I am using drivers 169.04. My score was 2244, and when I went into overclock with turbo gear, the score went up to 2434. It seems to me that these scores are really low. I did get a fluke run last night where my score was 3456, but its been in the low 2000's ever since. Also, the GPU temps seem kinda screwy, 80 idle and 87 under load. Can anyone help?
     
    wonton25, Dec 17, 2007
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  2. The Forerunner

    The Forerunner Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah, keep using the stock driver with the gddr3. If you upgrade drivers, performance drops. No idea why.
     
    The Forerunner, Dec 17, 2007
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  3. wonton25

    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    interesting, I'll try the stock drivers and see what happens
     
    wonton25, Dec 17, 2007
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    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    3dmark06 doesn't even open when I have the stock drivers, it comes up with an error "D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE". When I go to the device manager, it doesn't say 8600m gt, it just says standard VGA adapter...

    *EDIT* got it fixed now, ran 3dmark and got 3685. Seems much better. Just one more question, do the asus default drivers allow for overclocking?
     
    wonton25, Dec 17, 2007
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    yes....and we are still trying to figure out why we need stock drivers to get performance...waiting on a new one...
     
    theZoid, Dec 17, 2007
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    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    I guess I am happy, just got 3900's all stock. My GPU now idles at 82 and goes to 96 under load. Is this ok, or should I be worried?
     
    wonton25, Dec 17, 2007
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  7. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Thats a safe temp, if you want it cooler (and I would even tho thats a safe temp) you can look into a cooling pad or even check out the c90 mod thread in my sig.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Dec 17, 2007
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  8. wonton25

    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    Thats a pretty awesome mod, and you said it lowers temps by about 10 degrees? I just hit 106 playing CoD4 and I think that is way too high. I might look into doing something like that if I can get a spare ACE door from gentech...
     
    wonton25, Dec 18, 2007
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  9. GenTechPC

    GenTechPC Company Representative

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    The only thing I can think of it needs stock driver is because of the VGA BIOS, the GDDR3 card has same GPU but only with different video RAM, it'll be great if they can tell us why or at least update the driver for us.
     
    GenTechPC, Dec 18, 2007
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  10. klok99ah

    klok99ah Notebook Consultant

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    Hey Ken,

    Did you get any response back from Asus since you asked them? Im getting dissapointed i put so much money on this laptop and I cant even update the graphics driver!
     
    klok99ah, Dec 19, 2007
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