i6000 1.83, x300 128mg & e1505 1.66, x1400 128+HM => observations

Previously ran CoD2 demo on the i6000 on 800x600 default settings without any issues - lappy has 1.25g ram with 5400rpm drive & standard screen.

Loaded the same game on E1505 - higher resolution = lag. Default works fine. Unit has only 512mg of ram. Bright screen has the annoying mirror glare.

Will have to try to run the i6000 with higher resolution to compare. Have to add another stick on 1g ram to the E1505 & run the game again with diff settings. Seems that the lower clock & smaller amount of ram really affects the E1505.

 

Pinoy,

With the E1505 having less ram and the X1400 with Hypermemory could be what is slowing it down. If the card takes 256MB of Ram from the system then there will only be 256MB for the ram. In the bios you can allocate how much RAM the video card can take. I would do that.

The E1505 with spec provided should be getting better than the I6000 if they were equal in ram and ran at the same settings.

 

the x1400 has 256 TOTAL
128 onboard, 128 stolen from RAM

 

Code:

3DMark05 Scores
              i6000              E1505
3D            1332               1742
CPU           3517              4113
VGA Mem     216                 0 
VGA Core     297                 375
Driver date   8/3/05           2/8/06

I don't believe the RAM difference makes a major diff on this test as this results are close enough with what others have posted here.

Dunno why VGA memory Clock on E1505 shows 0

Should not be hard to tweek the x300 to get the same result(default setting) of the x1400.

 

You would need to do a bit of overclocking... but you might be able to get your score up to 1700 with your X300. Also you shouldn't use dells drivers. They are really bad. And dell's drivers usually underclock their video cards. A good easy to use overclocking program is powerstrip.

 

umm... I don't think you can get the 3Dmark05 with the X300 to score 1700. Because generally, thats basically on the next level of gpu. The X1400 already gets 1700 on stock values and for OCed pre-gen card to get that value would probably be deacreasing the gpu's life and/or having some artifacts and/or having instability issues. I believe the X300 can be overclocked to a score of around maybe 1450 max. (and thats already pushing it)

EDIT: sry.. the numbers were from a 64mb x300

 

umm, knifes, I don't know where you are basing your #'s.

a quick search on this site showed:

'i got just a bit over 2000 on a 128 mb ati x300 overclocked'
'05: 1850 => X300@425/325. Stable' => on 64mb+HM.
'1488 with omega drivers, stock clock. 1722 OCed 30% from dell's stock. 1955! 3dmark05 430/330 at stock latencies up from 300/216'

There are also several article(s) on the x300 being capable of being extremely overclocked because of the GPU low voltage/heat.

When I do get the time, I'll load OmegaDrivers with the tray tool and see.

 

Well I have the X1300 with 1GB of RAM and I get 256 mb Memory size on the Display adapter properties. So I guess you should double that with the X1400.

 

syxbit has it right

 

Decide to buy CoD2 and load game on both machines.

i6000 loaded/played without any issues - fan did run on high tho.

E1505 - disc 1 to 6 loaded fine but loading disc1 to stalled the install. Seems that CA anti-virus tried to load an update and failed 2x. Only process showing in task manager is CoD but it does not seem to be doing anything as CPU usage is very low. Tried killing install without any success, eventually powering off/on the unit. 2nd try worked(no other processes). Game played without problems either. Fan not on as high as i6000. IMO, 512 ram is too low for 'normal' config for dual core units.

 

Cool Flav and I actually had a little OC war a little while back, first to 2000 with an x300. I weenied out at 19XX but flav did hit 2009 i believe. I run my x300 at 360/260 usually but i can take it up to 420/320 without artifacting and for stable gameplay. With the Omega drivers that translates to around 1600-1900 on 3dmark05 depending on which setting i have it at. The beauty of the x300 is that it's an underclocked x600 so you have quite a bit of room to push it

edit: the 1955 was 430/330 and i missed the 64mb note.

 

Got 1g OCZ stick from newegg for the E1505, and installed it in bank A after moving the oem 512 stick to B. Booted - did not get normal msg about memory changing, system came up and system still showed 512 ram. Swapped the modules, booted, got the memory change message, accepted change, system came up half-way then hang; powered unit off/on, system booted normal. System shows 1.5g ram available now. Ran CoD2(at least the intro without problems). Will swap modules again today and see if pattern persists.

Anybody else encountered this scenario? The i6k did not have any issues using the same aftermarket ram and moving modules around.