Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
I think this forum fits better to my question so I'm posting here rather than Thinkpad board. Please move the thread if not.
So, I purchased brand-new Thinkpad W701 last year but didn't play with it until now. (i7-920XM and Nvidia Quadro 3800M)
I also have W700ds which is one generation older but it's not too far behind performance-wise. (QX9300 and Nvidia Quadro 3700M)
Both are top-of-the-line, maxed out specs.
The first thing I did was to run 3dMark06 to see how good it performs. W701 ended up with ~8500 which is lower than ~11500 that my W700ds does.
There's something very wrong here because W701 should be at least 10% faster than W700ds, so I was expecting at least ~13000 on 3dMark06.
I did all the usual tricks, inclding trying various Nvidia drivers, windows updates and all that but it didn't help. out of desperation, I even replaced CPU fan and repasted
VGA fan. Both seems to be physically working fine but the result on 3dMark06 didn't change.
Today, I tried some other benchmark tests for the first time. I tried SuperPI and Passmark Performance Test 8.0
Voila! W701 performed better than W700ds, as it should be. On SuperPI, W701 did at least 20% better than W700ds. On Performance 8.0 test, W701 did ~20% better on all tests,
inluding CPU and Video 2D and 3D tests.
Is it possible that 3dMark somehow is not measuring the performance of W701 correctly? notable is the fact that 3dMark06 does not correctly identify i7 920XM CPU - rather it
identifies the CPU as i7 - 950. I wonder if that causes the problem.
by the way, W701 is rock-solid stability-wise. I ran prime95 for 3 hours yesterday and it runs just fine, although the CPU keeps throttling up and down when the temp gets too hot.
if u guys know some definitive video benchmark that could tell for sure if there's any problem on my W701 or not, that would be great!
thanks
inconsistent benchmark results on Thinkpad W701
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sjefferson, Apr 10, 2014.
