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    8600M GT and 3DMark06 Problems

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by normalitydefined, Jan 2, 2008.

  1. normalitydefined

    normalitydefined Newbie

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    Hey!

    I was just using 3DMark06 to check my graphics card and I was surprised to find it scoring only ~2900 instead of the 3600 it normally would. So i checked the results and found out why - for some reason the program won't do the SM3.0 tests any more. I have no idea why - I haven't changed drivers or anything since I tested last and it had no problems then. I just get a big red NA in the results list.

    Any ideas?
     
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    normalitydefined Newbie

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    never mind... played with a few settings and something fixed it :)
     
    normalitydefined, Jan 2, 2008
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    boyciejunior Notebook Geek

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    3600 in 3dmark 06 :/

    omg what other components do u have ?

    must have some really good ones to score that high :S
     
    boyciejunior, Jan 2, 2008
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    ziggo0 Notebook Consultant

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    Running different clocks on the video card, different resolution and/or different cpu/speed can alter the score significantly.
     
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    normalitydefined Newbie

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    Umm I have a T7500 processor (2.2GHz), 2Gb RAM... nothing really special! I downloaded new graphics drivers and that bumped the 3dmark score up about 100 :) I think it was 169.01? This was all before overclocking - I now have it overclocked (much easier than I thought it'd be!) and it's running at around 4500 on 3dmark06 :) i think i could go higher i think cuz it's only running at about 65 degrees but i'm not gonna bother
     
    normalitydefined, Jan 3, 2008
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