Slow 820QM - tips?

I've been checking out i7-820QM benchmarks, and mine seems awfully slow. WPrime 32M scores 15.3 seconds (best) and usually only gets 15.7, while others achieve 13 seconds. Also, in 1024, I achieve 485 seconds while others get 420 seconds. In 3Dmark Vantage, I usually get 11800-12000 while others get 12400. Are there any tips you guys could provide to improve my scores?

 

are you sure there arent any programs running in the background that could interefere with your scores

 

Yep, closed all of them.

 

well all cpus were created equal.
so if youre sure there arent any conflicts or background programs, you may want to do a mild o/c on your cpu
i know the aw can do a pll setfsb o/c on the qm cpus

 

That doesn't make much sense.

Have you checked your CPU is running at the right amount of Ghz?

How many background processes are running? (ctrl-alt-del)

Are you running any AV?

 

I dunno, but apparently when I run wPrime 1.55 I get 13.6-8 seconds and 429 seconds. When I revert back to 2.03 I get 15 seconds and 480 seconds.

Perhaps it's not as bad as I thought and it just might be a benching software fault?

 

and your 820qm is just a tad bit behind others, not TOO slow!

so, relax

 

If running the same Wprime benchmark results in a 2.3 second difference on 13 seconds, that's 18% difference.

I would figure out why that is. Same CPUs at the same clockspeed should perform virtually the same.

 

What cooling system are you using? The intel processors may slow down if they are not getting sufficient cooling requirements .

 

And you have 8 threads enabled?

 

Are you on "Power Save" plan? That can make your system run a good bit slower.

 

Are you running on a fresh format? Or is it the factory install? The factory install can hurt benchmarks as there can be alot of rogue processes even after removing bloat which can effect performance.

 

Nope I'm not doing any of those above. I think I uninstalled 2.03, but I'll try it again...

 

are u on battery? The CPU may be throttling if not on AC power..

 

Make sure your running the right version of wprime the new version is slower than the old version.

You can see if your cpu is running the right speed just by running cpu-z when you run the benchmark and see if the cpu goes up to its full speed.

The new wprime should select 8 threads for you on its own, the older one you have to do it manually it will default to only 1 or 2 threads.

If you have a minor variance in score its your RAM probably. Wprime is so efficient and intensive that RAM speed/bandwidth actually comes into play.

 

Did you turn off all programs? Norton alone would explain it