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I updated the drivers to the 1/21 and still have the same score, are you using a different INI file that would effect this?

 

I use a Windows 7 64 bit enterprise load with minimal junk or services pulling the system down. I made sure to be running the latest version of DirectX from the Microsoft site dated Feb 5, 2010. Testing was done through the dock with only the U2410 enabled through displayport.

The score I got was with the dead stock Dell drivers. I was able to get similar results across a few drivers. There is not a magic bullet driver for this particular test. All ended up being within 5% of each other.

I went into the Nvidia control panel and then to "Adjust Image Settings with Preview" and slid the bar over to "performance". I made sure power settings were set to "High Performance". I disabled antivirus and closed programs like Firefox.

I set the display resolution to 1024x768 and ran the tests in the 64 bit version of PerformanceTest. The results were higher on the second run. If you want the fastest score, go to 800x600. 1920x1200 should still give at least 955 on the score.

 

I agree but somebody said that this test could be influenced by the CPU. So that's why I was talking about the CPU score. The resolution cannot be the reason about discrepancy in CPU score between Alienware M15x and M6500, that's the point.

 

We have almost an identical setup.
It was the performance slider for this benchmark. Changed it from quality to performance and the score was as follows:

1024x768
Quality: 3d Score: 916
Performance: 3d Score: 1552.60

1920x1200
Performance: 3d score: 1535.30
Balanced: 3d score: 1151.20

 

The 64-bit version of CS4 will use as much of the ram you have available in your system as you allocate to CS4. The "default" CS4 setup will allocate less than what is available due to the recognition that some of that ram is needed to keep the OS and system functioning properly. If you have 16GB available, you can safely allocate up to about 13GB of ram to CS4 and reserve the rest for the OS and other programs that might be running in the background.

Keith

 

Suggest you to download the 9.12 and modded inf. Thats the best one for M7740

 

Did some other minor tweaking and OC GPU by 10% has very good results:

Before
1920x1200
Performance: 3d score: 1535.30

After OC:
1920x1200
Performance: 3d score: 1672.00

 

dezoris,


What did you tweak, to get that bump in Performance?
Give use lots of details please.

Thank You,

 

Core i7 940XM will come in Q3 10. The clock speed stops at 2.13GHz but this quad core automatically overclocks all the way to 3.33GHz. TDP remains at high 55W

 

I just want a core-i-laptop....damn I'm tired of waiting.....