460m slowing down?

Hey guys, I was letting my brother play some Crysis 2, when I noticed a slight performance drop. Is there any way to check to see If It Is doing ok? Keep In mind, I'm not the best when It comes to pc's so explain It to me as If I were 5.

 

Have you updated Crysis 2 to 1.19?
Are your temps normal?
Do you have something downloading or running in the background that would suck up processing power?(Antivirus program, windows updates, virus)
Are you plugged in?

 

Yup, Crysis 2 Is updated.
My temps never hit past 65 C
I don't think I have anything running In the background.
Yes, I am plugged In and set to high performance.
What are the names of those programs that test your card? All I know Is Futuremark... Thanks for the help.

 

read the first post in this thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...alienware-m17x-benchmark-thread-part-4-a.html

The ones I used were 3dmark vantage and furmark. Though there's other ones.

 

O, I'm sorry I didn't see that. :/

 

vantage and 3dmark11 scores are the most popular. Forum members will be able to see if you're running normal or not very quickly

As zoo mentioned, furmark is another good one cause it will say your fps and your temps at the same time

 

O, thanks. I'll post my scores here later, gotta work on my diet.

 

Came back from the gym and am now running them. Is there anything I should do beforehand?

 

Put it in a fridge. ;D

 

Here Is my score. Is that bad for my card?

Edit: It also said this, "The physics score is invalid. PhysX GPU acceleration used. • Graphics driver is not approved

 

looks about right for a stock run, you aren't overclocked right? ill do a stock run here in a few minutes and see compare

 

Thank God! I was abouta flip out!... or blow 500 on the 580m.

 

like BigTony said, mid 8k's is about stock for a 460m so you're ok

EDIT: Doh! BigTony beats me again lol

 

haha i got P8605 3DMarks on my stock run, If i really push the GPU clocks I've breached 11k not even close to what slick gets with his 6990m, but I don't think its to bad either

 

well...before you go and spend good coin on a 580m, you definitely need to overclock that sucker. You have a guaranteed 560m there...all 460m's will overclock to 800 core, 1600 shaders, 1480 ddr5 and the temps will stay pretty much untouched.

I have one in an Asus G73 and it will overclock further than that

 

let me run my higher clocks and see if I get the artifacting again seems to happen once I hit 830/1660/1500 threshold

 

overclocked, my 6990m gets 16-17k in vantage but its not a fair comparison

 

here is what I got, what ya think? Got some pretty extreme artifacting in first benchmark, guess i'm pushing the card a bit far

 

I wasn't going to spend a dime. Mom ftw. Hey, I don't ask for things, I just make recommendations. I had a G73 as well, that thing had way better sound than this imo.

 

ya, i think you need to drop it just a tad maybe to 800core and try again

 

O, that's pretty cool. I'm not the one to overclock. I would more than often mess something up.

 

will I get a better score?

 

LOL...i should drop hints when i go over to my moms place too lol. i don't think its going to go over very well lol

The sound in the Alienware sucks....period. I took care of it with the X-fi, but i feel you shouldn't have to in $2K machine

 

don't think so lol...but at least you won't get artifacts

 

got P10068 3DMarks, not as good a score as the first run, but then again I won't be destroying my card

 

Once again, I'd like to say thanks for the help.

 

any time bud, thats what we are here for