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    3dmark results,your opinion matters

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by r2d2melo, Mar 6, 2008.

  1. r2d2melo

    r2d2melo Notebook Guru

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    Hey I just ran the scan and this is the results,does it suck?If you have the same or similar specs as my laptop what did you do to get better results,thx in advance
     

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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    That's very average.
     
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  3. SmoothTofu

    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    Yep, looks about right to me.
     
    SmoothTofu, Mar 6, 2008
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  4. dgacioch

    dgacioch Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ill post something in about a week. mine just shipped yesterday, ordered it with the new 2.4 penryn, otherwise its pretty similar to yours.
     
    dgacioch, Mar 7, 2008
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  5. X2P

    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    Interesting, I get 3565 with 3D Mark 06, but

    Vostro 1500

    Intel Core 2 Duo T7100, 1.8GHz, 800Mhz, 2M L2(WEAKER)
    1GB, DDR2, 667MHz(not sure ram test claims each stick is 333mhz)(WEAKER)
    256MB NVIDIA 8600m GT
    Win XP Home SP2

    even though my hardware is weaker is it the os making the difference?
     
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  6. Lithus

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    That's only 60 points apart, well within the error range of 3DMark.
     
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  7. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Looks ok, you want want to hop onto LaptopVideo2go.com and grab some drivers. If you look at orb and see the Asus G2S-B1 16xxx titles, thats me. You can kind of see how the drivers do. Of course it will be different on different systems, but either the new 167 Clevo or Dell drivers work great. You will probably have to use a modded inf for at least one. If you want some help, post up.
     
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  8. r2d2melo

    r2d2melo Notebook Guru

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    I got the 174.31, and before that games like NFS Pro Street would crash if resolution were high and damage on,now it runs awesomly,also I used the free version of the 3dmark,would that make a diff?
     
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  9. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    The free version gives the default settings with no fuss, as you cannot change anything. It does limit you to 5 results, but I have managed.
     
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  10. Gfresh404

    Gfresh404 Notebook Evangelist

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    Does look a little low to me. I got 4095 with the latest drivers from laptopvideo2go.com but I also have a 2.4 gigahertz processor so that probably makes a big difference.
     
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  11. Lithus

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    You also have a much higher clocked GDDR3 version of the 8600m GT.
     
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  12. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Gfresh: What drivers were you using? There are a couple different sets and series.
     
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  13. Gfresh404

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    I believe I'm using v174.31
     
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    Gar 174 series, ok, ty for telling. I have heard those are like the 169s, betas.
     
    gengerald, Mar 7, 2008
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  15. Gfresh404

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    Probably. Updating to this version did boost my 3dmark06 score by one-hundred points.
     
    Gfresh404, Mar 9, 2008
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