Why the low 3dmark score?

My 3dmark score usually hover in the 6000-7000 zone, despite my constant maintenance (HD defrag, virus scans, force ware drivers). Overclocking the gpu hasn't helped at all either.

 

We cannot know whether your 3Dmark score is high or low without specifications.

 

that's not low. that's what i get on my 6860 with a stock cpu.

 

The whole machine is stock. Normal? hmmm. I was just basing it against my friend's desktop pc which got around 9000 last night : /
How much would my score increase if i upgraded to say... a t8300?

 

you have 7811?or 6860?

 

A 6860. Sorry, I should've specified that in the last post.

 

Laptop GPUs are not even close to being the equivalent of desktop GPUs, despite the fact that they share part numbers. So, for example, a laptop with a 8600GT GPU isn't going to be close to the speed of a desktop with a 8600GT GPU, so forget about making a comparison between them. Your 3dMark score sounds typical for that GPU. Yes, your score would increase if you upgraded the CPU, but not dramatically.

 

Cool beans, thank you!

 

huhu... he said cool beans

 

If you got an x9000 and ran 3dmark06 on winXP and highly tweeked the system you can break 11,000 with the system.

But that requires alot of work that wont actually get you much real world preformance gains (well on top of just getting an x9000 and a good overclock/driver).

But rest assured your marks are pretty normal for a stock 6860.

Though if you wanted to get a bit higher marks you need to turn off everything on your OS and find the most stable over clock your GPU can handle, you should be able to push into the mid 7000's if you spend the hours doing it.

Though you have to figure out if that much effort is worth a few marks in an artifical benchmark

 

Not exactly on subject but isn't 9000 very low for a desktop 9800 gts?

 

Where is it stated the desktop has a 9800GTS?

 

just assumed he comparing granny smith's to red delicous...

prolly way off base, who knows.

 

Apple referance for the win!
I love me some granny smiths

Yeah with a 9K score its probablt an 8600 or 9600 class card. But who know there are so many cards out (nVidia and ATI) that would score around that mark according to set up there is no telling

 

true true.. my bad

 

Hehe, his machine does have a 9800... you're freaking me out man!

That, incidentally, is the only high end piece of hardware in his machine.

 

Anyways, I think I'll start with the cpu as it seems like the bottleneck in the system. then maybe configure some new hard drives. is raid 0 possible with these stock HDD'S?

 

sure. you'll need the 08 bios though.

 

hmmm i dont' know what ur friends got going in his machine but my 7811 scores 9500 3dmark with all stock parts and ewrecked's recomended gaming OC and 180.43 drivers... a 9800 desktop gpu should do a little better than my lappy, i would think.