Why is my 3dmark so low? 1651

So i just got 3dmark to start trying to overclock this 9600m gt and on stock setting with my t9600 i got 1900! what is wrong? I thought that this card was supposed to be in the 5kish range?!?! halp!

 

are you running vista or win 7? if you are make sure you are in performance mode under power options.

 

Is that 3dmark vantage? What is the score b4 you upgrade the CPU? For the default setting my GT-627 216 (P8400 and GeForce 9800GS) got around 4K.

 

Vista 64, and it is in performance mode. yeah it is 3dmark vantage.

 

can you check what sort of temps your cpu and gpu are hitting during the test?

 

My GPU maxed at 73 and my cpu maxed at 77. Everything seems to be running well. My cpu scored an 11237 stock

 

Have you tried running the benchmark with multiple drivers?

 

no i havent I was thinking about rolling back to the 179 from the newest 195.62 but then i read this:

 

Well I guess rolling back still wouldn't hurt, at least this way you know for sure its not a driver issue.

How does the card perform in gaming? I used to have one in a hp hdx16 and it performed pretty well.

 

It games just fine, Ive been playing Mass effect 2 on moderately high settings and i get very little if any lag at all. Though i will say that the videos look a little grainy, dont know if thats normal or not.

 

Did you run it on battery?

 

Lol i wish that was the case, its plugged in with full power.

 

Right, it was stupid suggestion of me But sometimes when you look for bigger problems you miss the small things. I don't remember in Vantage are there any setting for resolution?

 

^^^not stupid at all. Yeah there are res settings, I made sure they were at 1280x1024

 

Look at

http://aws1.futuremark.com/hardware/graphics_cards/nvidia_geforce_9600m_gt

The score you were getting looks normal, even though the vantage ones aren't actual numbers.

I guess the card doesn't score very high on vantage, although it does a pretty decent job with playing games.

 

So, according to nVidia it is 1357 points? Wow, that's low!
whitefro you have very high score then
I'll install it at my PC when I get home after work and see that. Although mine is clocked to 9700M GT, but still I want to see the result. I'll post it later.

 

nice find entity, thanks for everyones help! Im still a little confused as to how that person got in the 5k range though on vantage, it doesnt make sense.
http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/23454-msi-gx620-nvidia-9600m-gt-512mb-video-drivers/

 

So, it's time for some results. The strage thing to me is that they made Vantage non CPU dependent?
1. Here is the result without Turbo.
2. And result with Turbo.
The CPU score is higher with 1100 points and the diference in final score is only 2 points?!?!?

 

^^^wow that is really weird.

 

@whitefro
Your score on 3DMark Vantage is quite usual, I think. I just checked this
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GT.9449.0.html

Well I ran 3DMark Vantage once, when I just purchased my lappy. I got more than 4K w/ the default settings in Windows Vista 32. The maximum temperature of GPU (9800M GS) was around 70*C. Now I don't have any external screen supporting the minimum resolution to run the benchmark.

@Genna
This is the formula for you to calculate 3DMark Vantage score
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2289656,00.asp
I guess when you turn into Turbo Mode, the CPU consumes more energy, so the GPU doesn't have enough energy. Could you please give me the temperature in 2 modes. You should run GPUZ in background to record the info about the GPU clock. I guess the speed decreased during the test.

BTW, I like your wallpaper. Who is she?

 

Eclipse, you might be right for overheating (bad cooling actually), because two weeks ago I had to remove my VGA, just to check something, I didn't apply new thermal paste (I'm currently with Arctic Silver 5 and I'm also waiting for new HD4850/1G). I'll check the temperatures when I get back home. I just run the tests in hurry, it was late You can see detailed temperatures at GPU link in my signature (they are made few days after I bought it).
About SHE - Here. I'll upload the wallpaper for you later.

 

it is if you haven't disabled film grain. If the laptop games fine >.> i don't really see any reason to worry about the 3dmark score

 

I totally agree it doesnt really matter, i was just kind of shocked. how do you turn off film grain?!

 

Go to program files and under bioware and binaries there is another .exe launcher for editing settings.