OCZ Whitebook - Stock 3DMARK06 Score

This is what the notebook scored on stock drivers from XoticPC. I'm happy with the results.
SPECS:
OCZ Whitebook by XoticPC
Intel Core 2 Duo P9500
4gb DDR3 1066mhz RAM
Dual ATI HD3870
320gb 7200rpm
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit



I have seen people get ~15000 but with the X9100 Chip and 1333mhz RAM.

Is there any way to safely reach ~14000 with the P9500 chip?
What's holding me back?

 

are you sure that you are running on "performance" profile?

 

The CPU makes heaps of difference in the Whitebook's scores. try and overclock it, PM E-wrecked

 

what you mean, how?

 

click on battery icon and set to high performance

 

Thanks for posting those.

Your system is essentially the same as the one I orderd from RKC last week, and I was wondering the difference the CPU made.

I was hoping to get around 13k with the P9500, so this is encouraging.

I got the RKC heatsink CPU/GPU "upgrades", so hopefully I will be able to OC a bit.

 

people are mistaking this for scoring high with lessor cpus...

remember, most of the benchmarks shown are with a x9100 or qx9300. top of the line cpus....

 

Stock NO OC 3dmark06 - Sorry for the resolution



Stock no OC for 3dmark vantage:



Also, the Vantage score may be off a bit. The newest 8.11 ATI Drivers have a glitch in them that fux up the vantage run. Looks like it messes up the GPU physics processing.

 

for legit runs...physx needs to be disabled.. or so says futuremark

 

Putting the battery into HIGH PERFORMANCE didn't change anything...

 

samwY, your 3dmark score is normal with a P9500 CPU.

Rob did a test a while ago with a p9500
http://www.rkcomputer.net/rkcforum/viewtopic.php?t=1734

 

maybe for 3dmark, but Vantage requires PhysX. Heck, it installs PhysX if it doesnt find it already installed. Otherwise, Vantage won't run.

 

not in a way you think...you think i just be making this stuff up as i go along...*LOL* 3dmark vantage installs physx as well 3dmark and shows right on the front screen...*LOL* now under your windows control panel...there is a geforce physx enable/disable button for nvidia.. if you run with it enabled, the majority of your scores will have some header saying your score is not a legit one. yada yada yada. along with your driver not be whql certified. (ati) not sure about the ati control panel and or windows control panel for that matter. plus there was some big to do going on about it all as well.

like this:
Validity Please note that this result has been produced using display drivers which have not been validated or approved by Futuremark and will not be visible on default result search on the ORB or on the Hall of Fame. For a list of currently approved display drivers for your hardware, click here

but it gets interesting...look at your 3dmark score. it shows as being fm approved. does it also show this for your 3dmark vantage score?? i still dont think nvidia mobiles have an fm approved driver....

 

yea, the thing is with ATI..even modded drivers are FM approved. Its just the driver version # that makes it approved. Check the Approved NVIDIA driver list on Orb site, and it lists some OLD NVIDIA drivers.. they approve ATI rather quick. So, tweaked & modded ATI drivers are still FM approved, as long as version number is proper. You can mod a desktop NVIDIA driver to work on the mobile system, and as long as the driver version # is in that list it will approve it.

 

negative. been tried that... . i can get whql approved, just not fm approved. i just checked all the way back to my hp 8600m gs. that's a big 10-4 negative on being approved..

 

orb changed their approved drivers after the nividia physx scandal with Vantage..when you could cheat the benchmark by using the 177.43(i believe) maybe .93, and the physx installed. Hmm.. I recall my GS drivers being approved back then, until the recent changes.(semirecent) If you click on the 3dmark link for "FM Approved Drivers" have you tried installing one of them?

 

but of course. they are the drivers i use now. i tried the 178's as well, but not approved. even my stock 176.09 drivers are not approved...what is the world coming to when your stock factory driver is not on the approved list...lol

yeah, i don't remember if my gs was approved back then, that why i checked it on orb. and it says...nope, not approved.

 

yea, my gs was..and yours too..that's why we could post public. But Orb being the SOB, that they have been towards NIDIA since, now make your previous results non-public if you click on them to view them in your personal Results section. I noticed that when I was going back to check em out..Id click, then the result would turn private cause of non-fm approval. Then I look at my next result, using the same driver, and its still public. Then I click to view, and it goes private. And, like all benchmarks Ive ran with NVIDIA since, stay private. It's really annoying. I mean, you cant even direct someone to view your 3dmark06 unless it's fm approved. Total BS. Anyhow, I considered calling and cussing someone out..but then got rid of the 7811FX and now they post..so Im cool

 

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=51463
it was a bunch of nonsense going on with posting scores...like when you tried to post your 9800m gts scores.....since there is no generic vga class..no 9800m gts will ever show. no 9800m gt's either
and nope, my gs was not on the fm approved list, but was whql certified. but who knows...it could have been...at that time i ran like 100 test...lol

 

Looks like I'll upgrade X9300 when Starcraft 2 / Diablo 3 comes out!

Fallout 3 plays pretty flawlessly on 1920x1200 ultra high settings, but I'm still behind the vault

 

lol..it better play flawless there! Wait til you get outside, then things change a bit But..still runs smoothe.