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    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by dcu1976, Jun 9, 2010.

  1. dcu1976

    dcu1976 Notebook Guru

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    This has been driving me crazy, I get low scores and can't for the life of me figure out why. Additionaly, stealth mode is not active, I am in high performace on my power profile and I can clearly see that I have SLI enabled.

    I know WEI is just a bogus rating but why is it others with the same or similar setups get higher scores?! These scores are for Vista64.
     

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    menengroth Notebook Consultant

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    The scores all look accurate aside from the graphics ones, I have the SLI 260Ms too and get 7.1/7.2 in the WEI (Windows 7).

    You should go into your BIOS and make sure that hybrid graphics are enabled, and try different drivers, either the first DPC latency fix from Dell, or the 257.15 from Nvidia: http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...m17xr1-nvidia-driver-257-15-discuss-here.html


    Will post my WEI screenshot when I get home.
     
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    oogamar Notebook Evangelist

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    Its because vista has a max of 5.9 and so the scores are scaled by that. Windows 7 goes to 7.9 i think and so thats why your seeing lower scores. WEI isn't that accurate a benchmark anyway, try 3d mark or something to compare to others.
     
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    kenichols29 Notebook Evangelist

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    Scores are great! Vista only rates up to a 5.9. You will see an increase in score if you go to windows 7.
     
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    menengroth Notebook Consultant

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    Ah, I thought Vista went up to 6.9!

    Nevermind so =D
     
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    OK, that explains it, Thanks to all that replied!
     
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    Oh. I didn't know that. It sounds accurate, I haven't used vista for almost a year now.
     
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