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    My Vostro 1500 Benchmark-Low?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by bmwm3oz, Apr 5, 2008.

  1. bmwm3oz

    bmwm3oz Notebook Consultant

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    I'm new to this Benchmark program so I'm not exactly sure what to do but I pretty much just hit start and it did its thing and I ended up with 3,498 Marks.

    I will be getting 7200RPM HD soon. What impact will that have on my Benchmark score?

    Should It be higher?

    Thank you!
     
    bmwm3oz, Apr 5, 2008
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Assuming it's an 8600m GT and 3DMark is just reporting it wrong, that's a standard score.

    HDD will not help with 3DMark.
     
    Lithus, Apr 5, 2008
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  3. lqaddict

    lqaddict Notebook Consultant

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    3DMark06 is a GPU/CPU benchmarking tool -ignore it. Higher capacity 5400 RPM drives perform on par with 7200 RPM drives - save some dough.
     
    lqaddict, Apr 5, 2008
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  4. X2P

    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    Your score should be higher my computer ( in sig ) has a score of 3600 exact
     
    X2P, Apr 5, 2008
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    Yeah...it all depends on graphics and CPU...considering that you have a decent CPU...your graphics is the bottleneck here...

    if you want some added performance...overclock perhaps?
     
    shawnhao, Apr 6, 2008
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  6. bmwm3oz

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    YOu have xp, would that make a difference
     
    bmwm3oz, Apr 6, 2008
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  7. X2P

    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    Oh ok good point didnt notice vista but expected still close performance at least with vista just cuz of the T9300
     
    X2P, Apr 6, 2008
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  8. Lithus

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    100 points is within the error range of 3DMark.
     
    Lithus, Apr 6, 2008
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  9. X2P

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    even after 50 runs identical score?
     
    X2P, Apr 6, 2008
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  10. LiTh07

    LiTh07 Notebook Evangelist

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    i dont think thats right because i have an xps m1530 with a T8300, 8600GT, 3 gigs of ram, 200gb 7200 rpm HD, vista home and i get 4300 on 3dmark06
     
    LiTh07, Apr 6, 2008
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  11. bmwm3oz

    bmwm3oz Notebook Consultant

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    Don't you have a 8600M GT DDR3 though?
     
    bmwm3oz, Apr 6, 2008
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  12. LiTh07

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    ah yes, forgot about that
     
    LiTh07, Apr 6, 2008
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  13. r_holmes22

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    Are your software performance settings identical too? The ones in the NV Control Panel?
     
    r_holmes22, Apr 10, 2008
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