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    A8js - SCANDAL!!!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by exxi, Jun 21, 2007.

  1. exxi

    exxi Notebook Consultant

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    I don't understand why my 3dMark 2006 score running vista 32 bits is only 2291
    I have the latest Asus VGA installed with 2.11 bios

    Here's the 3d mark log exported to excel. is there anything I CAN Do to up the score to 2600 maybe???? this is ridiculously awful.

    What are your 06 scores with vista?
    thanks folks!!










    File Name

    Benchmark
    Version 1.1.0
    Width 1280
    Height 1024
    Anti-Aliasing None
    Anti-Aliasing Quality 0
    Texture Filtering Optimal
    Anisotropic Level 1
    VS Profile 3_0
    PS Profile 3_0
    Force full precision No
    Disable HW shadow mapping No
    Disable post-processing No
    Force software vertex shader No
    Color mipmaps No
    Force software FP filtering No
    Repeat tests Off
    Fixed framerate Off
    Comment
    3DMark Score 2291 3DMarks
    SM2.0 Score 909
    HDR/SM3.0 Score 791
    CPU Score 1643
    Game Score N/A N/A
    GT1 - Return To Proxycon 7,478 FPS SM2.0 Graphics Tests
    GT2 - Firefly Forest 7,664 FPS SM2.0 Graphics Tests
    CPU1 - Red Valley 0,516 FPS CPU Tests
    CPU2 - Red Valley 0,837 FPS CPU Tests
    HDR1 - Canyon Flight 6,784 FPS HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests
    HDR2 - Deep Freeze 9,045 FPS HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests
    Fill Rate - Single-Texturing 0,000 N/A N/A Feature Tests
    Fill Rate - Multi-Texturing 0,000 N/A N/A Feature Tests
    Pixel Shader 0,000 N/A N/A Feature Tests
    Vertex Shader - Simple 0,000 N/A N/A Feature Tests
    Vertex Shader - Complex 0,000 N/A N/A Feature Tests
    Shader Particles (SM3.0) 0,000 N/A N/A Feature Tests
    Perlin Noise (SM3.0) 0,000 N/A N/A Feature Tests
    8 Triangles 0,000 N/A N/A Batch Size Tests
    32 Triangles 0,000 N/A N/A Batch Size Tests
    128 Triangles 0,000 N/A N/A Batch Size Tests
    512 Triangles 0,000 N/A N/A Batch Size Tests
    2048 Triangles 0,000 N/A N/A Batch Size Tests
    32768 Triangles 0,000 N/A N/A Batch Size Tests
    System Info
    Version 3,12
    CPU Info
    Physical Processors 1
    Logical Processors 2
    Central Processing Units
    Central Processing Unit
    Manufacturer Intel
    Family Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
    Architecture 64-bit
    Internal Clock 1995 MHz
    Internal Clock Maximum 1995 MHz
    External Clock 668 MHz
    Socket Designation CPU 1
    Type
    Upgrade Socket 423
    MultiCore 2 Processor Cores
    HyperThreadingTechnology N/A
    Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, PAE, NX
    Version Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz

    Caches Level Capacity Type Type Details Error Correction Type Associativity
    1 64 KB Data, Internal Pipeline Burst Single-bit ECC 4-way Set-Associative
    2 4096 KB Instruction, Data, Internal Pipeline Burst Single-bit ECC 4-way Set-Associative


    CPUIDs EAX EBX ECX EDX Order
    0x0000000a 0x756e6547 0x6c65746e 0x49656e69 0
    0x000006f6 0x01020800 0x0000e3bd 0xbfebfbff 1
    0x05b0b101 0x005657f0 0x00000000 0x2cb43049 2
    0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 3
    0x04000121 0x01c0003f 0x0000003f 0x00000001 4
    0x00000040 0x00000040 0x00000003 0x00022220 5
    0x00000001 0x00000002 0x00000001 0x00000000 6
    0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 7
    0x00000400 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 8
    0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 9
    0x07280202 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 10


    Ext CPUIDs EAX EBX ECX EDX Order
    0x80000008 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0
    0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x20100000 1
    0x65746e49 0x2952286c 0x726f4320 0x4d542865 2
    0x43203229 0x20205550 0x20202020 0x54202020 3
    0x30303237 0x20402020 0x30302e32 0x007a4847 4
    0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 5
    0x00000000 0x00000000 0x10008040 0x00000000 6
    0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 7
    0x00003024 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 8

    DirectX Info
    Version 10
    Long Version 4.09.00.0904
    DirectDraw Info
    Version 6.0.6000.16386
    Primary Device NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
    Linked Display Adapters FALSE
    Display Devices
    Display Device
    Description NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
    Manufacturer NVIDIA
    Total Local Video Memory 514 MB
    Total Local Texture Memory 514 MB
    AGP Aperture Size 274 MB
    Driver File nvd3dum.dll
    Driver Version 7.15.10.9802
    Driver Details
    Driver Date 19.01.2007
    Driver WHQL Certified TRUE
    Max Texture Width 4096 px
    Max Texture Height 4096 px
    Max User Clipping Planes 6
    Max Active Hardware Lights 8
    Max Texture Blending Stages 8
    Fixed Function Textures In Single Pass 8
    Vertex Shader Version 3
    Pixel Shader Version 3
    Max Vertex Blend Matrices 0
    Max Texture Coordinates 8
    PCI
    Name NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
    Vendor ID 0x10de
    Device ID 0x0397
    SubSystem ID 0x14421043
    Revision ID 0x00a1
    Bus
    Type PCI Express
    Revision 1
    Enabled TRUE
    Rate 16
    Sideband Addressing Not Supported
    Fast Write Not Supported

    Texture Formats
    32-bit ARGB [8888]
    32-bit RGB [888]
    16-bit RGB [565]
    16-bit RGB [555]
    16-bit ARGB [1555]
    16-bit ARGB [4444]
    8-bit A [8]
    8-bit YUV [800]
    16-bit AYUV [8800]
    FourCC [DXT1]
    FourCC [DXT2]
    FourCC [DXT3]
    FourCC [DXT4]
    FourCC [DXT5]

    Capabilities AGP Texturing, Hardware Transform and Lighting, Positional Lights, Subpixel Accurate Rasterizing, Stencil Buffers, Range Fog, Table Fog, Vertex Fog, W-Fog, Specular Gouraud Shading, Anisotropic Filtering, Bilinear Filtering, Point Sampling, Trilinear Filtering, Additive Texture Blending, Dot3 Texture Blending, Multiplicative Texture Blending, Subtractive Texture Blending, Environmental Bump Mapping, Environmental Bump Mapping With Luminance, Cube Mapping, Factor Alpha Blending, Vertex Alpha Blending, Texture Alpha Blending, Texture Clamping, Texture Mirroring, Texture Wrapping, Guard Band Support, Mipmap LOD Bias Adjustment, Projected Textures, Volume Textures, Point Primitive Support, Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing, DXT Compressed Textures, Two Sided Stencil Test, Mipmapped Volume Textures, Mipmapped Cube Textures, Texture Border Color, Spherical Mapping, Automatic Mipmap Generation, Hardware Rasterization, Shading, Transform and Lighting, Scissor Test, Legacy Depth Bias
    VGA Memory Clock 398 MHz
    VGA Core Clock 450 MHz
    Max VGA Memory Clock 0 Hz
    Max VGA Core Clock 0 Hz
    DirectShow Info
    Version 6.6.6000.16386

    Registered DirectShow Filters
    AC3 Parser Filter
    AC3Filter
    ACM Wrapper
    AVI Decompressor
    AVI Draw
    AVI Splitter
    AVI/WAV File Source
    BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
    Color Space Converter
    DV Muxer
    DV Splitter
    DV Video Decoder
    Decrypt/Tag
    Default DirectSound Device
    Default MidiOut Device
    DirectVobSub (auto-loading version)
    File Source (Async.)
    File Source (URL)
    File stream renderer
    Internal Script Command Renderer
    Line 21 Decoder
    Line 21 Decoder 2
    MIDI Parser
    MJPEG Decompressor
    MPEG Audio Decoder
    MPEG Layer-3 Decoder
    MPEG Video Decoder
    MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
    MPEG-2 Sections and Tables
    MPEG-2 Splitter
    MPEG-I Stream Splitter
    Microsoft MPEG-1/DD Audio Decoder
    Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Decoder
    Multi-file Parser
    SAMI (CC) Parser
    VBI Codec
    VBI Surface Allocator
    VGA 16 Color Ditherer
    Video Port Manager
    Video Renderer
    WM ASF Reader
    WM ASF Writer
    WST Pager
    Wave Parser
    XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder

    DirectSound Info
    Version 6.0.6000.16386
    Speaker Configuration Stereo
    Speaker Geometry Wide
    Primary Device Speakers (USB Audio Device)
    Sound Devices
    Memory Info
    Total Physical Memory 2032 MB
    Free Physical Memory 1188 MB
    Total Pagefile Memory 4313 MB
    Free Pagefile Memory 2992 MB
    Memory Arrays
    Memory Array
    Max Module Capacity 4096 KB
    Location System Board
    Use System
    Supported Error DC

    Supported Speeds

    Supported Types

    Supported Voltages


    Memory Slots Installed Enabled Size Form Factor Frequency Slot Manufacturer Type Type Details Enabled Size Total Bit Width Data Bit Width
    1024 MB DIMM 0 Hz DIMM0 [BANK0] Manufacturer0 SDRAM Synchronous 1024 MB 64 b
     
  2. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Try putting the CPU to Max Power.
     
  3. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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  4. marioparty

    marioparty Notebook Consultant

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    How is it a scandal? I don't think you should take synthetic like a grain of salt. Take the AMD HD for example. They score almost a mile ahead of the G800 series but in real world gaming, they sucks.
     
  5. AlexOnFyre

    AlexOnFyre Needs to get back to work NBR Reviewer

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    That is an awful lot of data =P

    What it really comes down to is FPS in the games. Does it chop up while you are playing? If you can still play stuff on at least medium settings with good framerates then there shouldn't really be a problem.
     
  6. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Not only the CPU, but check the power/performance settings of the GPU. You don't want it on Balanced or Power Saving (or some similar profile). Did you run the 3DMark on battery by any chance? If you did, this is almost certain to be the case.

    But I agree with Alex, it the games run fine don't worry about the 3Dmark, it's just a score indirectly related to real life.
     
  7. ITF

    ITF Notebook Consultant

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    Without reading all the data.. one number jumped out at me, that is the bios you are running.

    Problems have been reported with v2.11, I don't remember the specifics but they were solved by reverting back to v2.10.
     
  8. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    That's true... The 2.11 bios was weird. I had Screen brightness issues with it. Don't know if it has more, since i couldn't really do anything while running thta stupid bios.
     
  9. System64

    System64 Windows 7 x64

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    Thats a lot of number to begin with, slightly difficult to digest....and why is it labelled as a "scandal"? ;)
     
  10. marioparty

    marioparty Notebook Consultant

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    Catching people's attention ;)

    Or either he can't differentiate the difference between scandal and problem.
     
  11. wb74160

    wb74160 Notebook Enthusiast

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    wow, what a scandal, phone Asus, ask them a commercial effort for this, and sue 3DMark for their bull**** benchmark, also don't forget to kill any guy which mention Asus around you within the next ten years........