New 1530, 3d06 Mark score.. good?

Well, I just did some removal manually etc, and ran 3dmark with the drivers that came with the laptop ( Not sure what they are off hand, at work ), ran 3d mark, factory score of 4600 something, played with Ntuner a little bit ( tried to do it quick, GF was getting boooored at this point, it's hard to convince her I'm doing something essential when games are flashing across 3d mark all the time ), anyhow, after just a few min of playing with the OC settings, I got a 3d mark of 5000 ish, thought that would be fine. How is that for a mark? Left everything on default settings since I have the free version.

2.4ghz
3 gig ram
geforce 8600m GT ( think it's the DDR3 )
Vista 32, DX10
1400x900 LED
Midnight Blue

 

5000 is great score

 

What drivers? I want to use 171.16 but when I try to install it errors "No compatiable hardware found."

Sigh!

 

Use the Dell released 174.31. They will work fine. Anything above that and you'll run into FPS going down the drain when playing on the battery only. Trust me. 174.31. It's on Dell's site.

 

Uh yeah I dont try to game on battery power, lol.

 

Amazing score there mate. Guess my U6 will need to go to the GYM to catch up . My AMILO had no problems with KOTOR on battery when I was flying to London .

 

*sigh* its not really 5000...

well, it is, but you can't compare that to someone else who got 5000.

you see, because the default resolution of 3dmark06 is 1280x1024 (taller than your monitor supports) 3dmark06 decides to run in a lower resolution. this increases your frames per second and artificially boosts your score.

the whole point of your 3dmark06 score is to be able to compare it with other scores. technically your score doesn't mean the same thing as someone who had a higher resolution screen and ran the same bench, because 3dmark06 would default to a higher resolution with said person.

i hate 3dmark, you should too.

 

What this topic is basically, is asking a similar question as:

"I got something over 100 fps while playing Crysis on max settings at 1680x1050. Is that good?"

In terms of PCMark evaluations, yeah your score will be different if you get a WUXGA vs WXGA+ display just because the tested resolutions are different so the WXGA+ will always have the higher score, so you can't compare the two. Though scores should be lower for the WUXGA just because more stress is on the GFX card in maintaining that resolution.

 

Soooo decent enough score for my rig? I don't want to F with it tooo much since I only have a 1 yr warranty.
And I am OCD so once I get started with something....

 

What clocks did you OC to? My highest score right now is 6101 @ 675/900 (But this is at 1280x800), but we can compare because you ran it at the same resolution! Yay! Sigh lol

 

Look at previous posts.

People are not going to flock to you in large numbers with words of awe.

 

Use an external monitor and run it again

 

Well, playing around with Riva Tuner, I overclocked the card to 600Clock/1200 Shader clock and 720 on the mem clock. 3d06 Score of 5495. Running at 78-81C on Mass Effect, and it runs awesome, the game looks f'in crazy.

Should I bother clocking the memory any higher? Will the improvement be worth the extra heat?

 

You should consider better cooling if you want to play like this .

 

Ya, I'm going to put it back to stock and see what the heat is like then..

 

Default settings of 475/950 and 702 running at 80c ingame. Now, worth the 5c increase? First laptop, so I'm not sure how much heat that is for this machine.

 

I get 4706 3DMark with 1280x800 on stock clocks.. So yes your 4600 is about the same..

I'm going to try run it at 1440x900 and see what I get.. Then start OC'ing