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    Low 3dmark 11 scores

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by binaryhero, Jul 19, 2013.

  1. binaryhero

    binaryhero Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently bought a lenovo y500 with 2 650m's in sli, and the scores are lower than what they should be. Here's the highest one I've gotten so far:

    3d Mark Score. - From what I've seen it should be in the 3600's or so.

    I was wondering if anyone knew what caused this or how to fix it. I'm on the latest drivers as well. Also when I try to overclock it to say +135/+750, the score will only go up about 80, and the screen will glitch on anything graphics intensive (only when overclocked). Is one of the graphics cards going bad?

    Thanks in advance guys.
     
    binaryhero, Jul 19, 2013
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    dronelebeau Notebook Geek

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    your physx is terribly low. could be due to the i5 processor instead of the i7. maybe that's the reason why your score is lower than most y500.

    also in overclocking, did you made sure your gpu's were oc'ed? did you checked if the actual clocks have changed?
     
    dronelebeau, Jul 19, 2013
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  3. binaryhero

    binaryhero Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've seen the same model with much higher scores though, so I'm not positive that would be it. Overclocked scores should easily 4k as well from other posts I've seen, but the best I can get is 3450.

    I used both nvidia inspector and msi afterburner to try and overclock them. Due to the gpu's starting to mess up on anything graphics intensive it's safe to say they were definitely overclocked at that time, but even on a low overclock it seems to be messing up.

    I did see some posts about the most recent driver messing with scores in it's beta version though, could that be it?
     
    binaryhero, Jul 19, 2013
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  4. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    Your low score is due to the i5.
     
    octiceps, Jul 19, 2013
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    binaryhero Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hmm well that sucks, though why does the screen start to mess up when overclocking if the gpu's aren't going faulty? Would overclocking the i5 help in gaming performance?
     
    binaryhero, Jul 19, 2013
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    octiceps Nimrod

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    The screen artifacts because the GPU can't handle those clock speeds, so you'll have to lower them until it's completely stable. It's impossible to overclock the i5.
     
    octiceps, Jul 20, 2013
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    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    Did you mess with any nVidia driver settings? If you did things like force AA / AF / Vsync to be on, then that would affect your scores.
     
    kent1146, Jul 21, 2013
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    kenken3686 Newbie

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    Hey, I have the same issue.

    I have the Y500 with GT750M SLI... I only get P2xxx from 3dmark11. Still don't know what the issue is.

    For sure both GPU are working but when doing the physicX test, I am getting 2.5FPS.
     
    kenken3686, Jul 22, 2013
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