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    New NP8660 - 3dMark06 of 3785

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by A_Grounded_Pilot, Oct 19, 2008.

  1. A_Grounded_Pilot

    A_Grounded_Pilot Notebook Consultant

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    Sooo... what am I doing wrong here?

    I've got a new NP8660 with a P9500, 4GB ram, and a 9800M GT on Vista Business x64. I just installed the 180.10 drivers from lv2go. I uninstalled the old drivers, rebooted and disabled driver signing, moved the inf into the extracted driver folder, and used "Have Disk" to install the new drivers. I think I should be getting a little better performance than this...

    I installed the 178.13s before these, and had the same performance. What am I doing wrong?

    ETA - SM2.0 score 1576, SM3.0 score 2256, CPU score 691
     
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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  3. sxusteven

    sxusteven Notebook Evangelist

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    that cpu score looks terrible, but so does the other scores
     
    sxusteven, Oct 19, 2008
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  4. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    try 177.92
    make sure your computer is set to high performance
    n idk you should get at lest 8,000 i'm guessing
    i dont know my computer is nowhere near that score
     
    dondadah88, Oct 19, 2008
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  5. Deathwinger

    Deathwinger Notebook Virtuoso

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    Nah, somethings wrong there, I have the same setup and I get 9300. Do you find the computer itself to be sluggish in any applications or games?
     
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  6. A_Grounded_Pilot

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    Doh! Well that was dumb. I was poking through my power plan and found the processor was set to a maximum of 50% both on and off AC power. It would seem as if this setting controls the GPU as well. I fixed it and ran 3DMark again; I topped 9000. Thanks guys!! I'm much happier with my purchase now!! :eek:

    ETA after gaming - THIS THING IS FRIKKIN AWESOME!!!! :D

    Also, now my GPU has maxed at 80*, CPU at 73*/78*, and the HDD max is 48* (250GB Hitachi) with no cooler. Thanks again guys!
     
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  7. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    well at least u got it working now
     
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  8. ARom

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    lol, great, :D
     
    ARom, Oct 19, 2008
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