8400M GT breaks 4k barrier (1280x800)

I finally broke the 4000 barrier on 3Dmark06!

Its not on 1280x1024 so its nothing to be REALLY proud of but hey , most people test on 1280x800 (which is our native) and i finally reached 4000!

here is proof




My card was overclocked to 700/780 to reach 4066 points in 3Dmark06 with the 182.06 driver


My gaming OC is 600/730 so plz dont start saying that my card will burst into flames because that profile is only when i REALLY need it (ie very demanding games).

Average temperature after the test was max: 68C.

I do not operate on those clocks on a regular basis

 

That is Cool! I have a 8400gt and i never ran 3dmark even once lol(i never gamed on that notebook) i think it gets 2000 stock though thats great to hear what are the temps?

edit: nm i just noticed your temps Thats really good.

 

Run those clocks in ATITool. I bet it artifacts.

 

Nope. It doesnt.

I've gamed for several hours on those clocks on demanding games such as Crysis, GRID...etc.

Ive noted these clocks down for a while and ive used them once in a while. ATITOOL doesn't show artifacts after a long while of testing.

They are stable.

 

you got it to the same speeds as my oced 8600m gs.
i scored 1633/1504/1500. so you actually beat me with a better cpu.

 

Wow im impressed! I noticed that you run your GPU runs at 85C? isnt that a bit hot?

Mine almost never goes past 72~73C


edit: and no i dont think i beat u because you ran your test at 1280x1024 resolution vs mine which was 1280x800.

Your still champ

 

What notebook is this in? Thats really good for an 8400GT...Thats about what my 8600GT got stock.

 

no you did beat me. i got 3.6k when benching at 1280*1024. got 3.9k at 1280*800.
85c is the max i have seen, when i played bioshock. 3dmark06 will stress it to about 82-83c. yeah it's a bit hot, but still in the safe zone i think. or i hope at least.

 

as long as you hate hitting 100 you should be fine but then the 8 series GPU too just be careful

 

Thanks! My laptop is the Sony Vaio VGN FZ290 .. such quality material

And by the way is that the 8600M GT DDR2 or DDR3?

Ahhh ok. Yeah i think that 80C is still safe, just a bit hot but it shouldnt really matter.

Ive only seen my GPU reach that temperature ONCE and that was when i was using it on my cousins bed...blocked airflow completely lol

 

the 8400m GT doesnt have a crippled bus like the other 8400 series, 128 bit compared to 64, its more midrange then low end, and very similar to the 8600m gs, so that is not too suprising.

 

your sony's got a nice cooling system. my overclock seems to be heat limited.

 

Then again i have a Zalman NC1000 cooling pad

that reduces the average heat by a couple degrees Celsius


Try the 182.06 drivers...i got a 100points boost from them. Which helped me achieve my goal even faster

 

yes. the only difference between 8400m gt and 8600m gs is the clock speed i believe. nvidia really need to stop spamming cards.

 

Lol yeah, agreed. Marketing for the loss.

 

Congrats.


I think my ThinkPad R60 with NVS 140m might be able to beat that.

 

Hey miscolobo, at what resolution and settings do you play Crysis decently? With my stock 7600, I can run it at 1024x768 at all medium in XP.

 

I honestly have no idea :s ive uninstalled Crysis a lonnnnggg time ago.

I can re-install the demo and let you know sometime soon tho

and from what i know i think that the Gefore 7600 is a bit faster than the 8400M GT.

Also i dont have XP and i hear it gives a 5fps boost or something like that.

 

i just tried crysis demo. got average 21.5fps in the benchmark run, all medium dx9 1024*768
edit: screenies, low shadows/physics, rest are at medium.
some light sources can bring down my frame rate to teens, but it stays above 20 most of the time, can go up to 40 if i stared at a stone wall.
edit2: oced at 660/1450/900, max temp was 85.

 

i swear this is the only game that looks decent on medium hehe

I should test my Vaio AR as well.......

 

You should see how it looks on Very High.

 

lol i dont even want to imagine if you are talking about very high on the 8400gt

i know what it looks like on ultra high, i did on my notebook though it chugged out the whazoo though. I play it on high perfect fine though.

 

Hah for it to run on high i'd need to overclock to say 2Ghz core / 3Ghz mem? rofl

 

there you go. looks like i have to increase my overclock by about 200% to play it smoothly at this setting. assuming the games scales well with clock speeds

 

Wow thats alot...do you run Crysis in DX9?

 

yes, dx10 is a little out of reach for a G86 core.
it's prettiest slide show i ever seen.

 

I dont know how to run it in Dx10 how would i do so? ive tried the -dx9 target thing but it doesnt seem to work :S

 

would a dell xps 1530 differ much from ur sony with the oc abilities? im ocing my xps rite now with the same gpu but with a t8300 and 4 gigs of ddr2 800mhz ram

 

hey this is impressive

what about games?

is there any game that you cant play?