C90s 3dmark score discussion

Okay, so I've been having a few speed issues when playing with my friend who has an inspiron 1505 with the 7200 chip and an ati x1200 card. The issue being despite his much lower specs he would sill get equal or greater frame rates than me on any given setting. He loaded faster than me but he has a 7200rpm hard drive versus my 5400 but I expected that. After striving for the ultimate scores I got some weird results.

First - my specs
6420 C2D, 2.13ghz (turbo gear was on during both tests and set to overclock setting)
8600gt 512 DDR2 w/ latest driver
Vista Home premium w/ all updates
2 gigs of ram
160gig 5400rpm hard drive
wireless-n (probably non-important)
targus 2 fan, usb-powered notebook cooler (stolen from dormmate for testing so isn't in normal use for me)

I think that should be it for my specs. So yeah, that's a fairly standard C90s getup.

The Scores
3dmark06 - 3243
3dmark05 - 6382

Now while these scores may seem fairly average and standard as well, I have a bit of a problem with 3dmark06's cpu tests. On average, I got 0fps during both tests. Is this normal? I'd think that with the overclocking on, the cpu testing would provide some decent numbers here. I know it's not blistering fast compared to some of the cpus out today but it's still a very solid chip. Could this be the sign of a bad cpu and the cause of some of my speed issues?

 

Wow. He should not have even close to equal framerates with a X1200. For the CPU on 3Dmark06 though, I believe it is meant to run that slow, since it is really stressing your CPU. When I ran it (2.33Ghz) it was at 0 basically the whole time.

 

Yes, there are 2 CPU tests which stresses the CPU. Everyone will get 0-3 fps during those tests.
To increase your 3dmark06 score, try downloading new drivers from laptopvideo2go.com and overclock your GPU to 500/500. This should enable you to get a score of about 3700.

EDIT: opps, didn't see you had latest drivers already!

 

So do you want me to overclock to get those scores or use the latest drivers cause the latest drivers don't allow for overclocking, at least not with ntune.

 

Are you using XP or Vista?
Try use 167.26 for XP and 169.01 for Vista. Both of these allow overclocking

 

Oh, and make sure you have 801 bios too.

 

k I have vista 32 bit and 801 BIOS and am currently using 169.75 drivers. I found them to give me a makred improvement in both tests over stock drivers but I will try 169.01 and OC.

 

Um those drivers you suggested are for desktops I think. Not only that but 169.01 are suggested for XP, not vista. Unless you are using these in your own C90s (judging by your sig it looks like you own one : P ) yourself then I don't think these are going to work. I used GPU-Z to triple check that yes, I do indeed use 169.75 for the 8600GT with 512 DDR2. I know it's a littel redundant to say it but just stating that yes, this is my current GPU status.

 

Those drivers are for laptops. I have xp running so am using 167.26. I also have the 512 DDR2 GPU for my C90S.
Here's the 169.01 for Vista 32bit

 

themanwithsauce go to

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=182812&page=3

scroll down, i have a 8600m GT 512 DDr2 500/500 and got 4200 try that

 

^ You mean 4200 in 1280 x 800?

 

That would put you back to 3600-3700

Nothing exeptional

 

pff i only get 3000 flat on my c90s. If i use any drivers past 163.16 I only get 1800. Do you guys use the ddr3 or ddr2 card?

 

Yup... 4272 was the best results i had so far

 

@themanwithsauce

I've got almost the same setup as you except for the HDD,
I can get about 4000 in 3D Mark 06 with overclocking @ 515/490 @ 1280x1024. I used ATi Tool to overclock and check for artifacts.

Edit: Just Ran 3DMark06 again @ 1280x800 @ 515/490 = 4713!