Poor 3d Mark Score?

right on my old config of 2.33 dual core, 2GB ram, 8800m GTX i got about 9,200 i just ran it again with my upgrades of q6600, 3GB ram, 8800m GTX and i got wait for it.......... 7613

results:

3DMark Score 7613 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 3156
SM 3.0 Score 3347
CPU Score 2240

now i wasnt expecting amazing scores, but to get nearly 2,000 points less then i did with my older specs i wasnt expecting this.

any idea whats going on? during the second test ( i think) the one with the alien landscape i was getting 0 FPS, maxing out at an incrediable 1FPS - could this be the reason? how do i fix it?

 

try newer drivers...cause i got 5600 pts with driver 178.18 and then when i upgraded to 180.42 or somthing like that....i got 9250 pts....all using stock clocks

 

okay thanx, is there any easy to update drivers as ive never done it before
it would be very helpful if i had a list of what to do, thanx

 

read the drivers page in the gaming section.....updating drivers is easy:
1. go to laptopvideo2go.com and download latest drivers for your windows version
2.extract the driver package (remember its location)
3.download modded .inf file from the same website (make sure its the inf for your driver version, each driver download page will have a link to the appropriate inf file)
4.replace inf file in the extracted directory
5.uninstall old drivers from control panel
6.reboot into safe mode
7.run driver sweeper and delete any old driver files
8.reboot into safe mode again
9.run the setup.exe file from the extracted driver directory
10.restart computer
11.enjoy

 

1) go to laptopvideo2go.com
2) follow the link for the drivers for your os on top right of page
3) download the drivers and modded inf on the info page
4) extract the divers
5) copy/paste modded inf into the divers folder
5) start autorun

Edit: guess I was a bit late lol

 

wow didnt you say easy?

quick question how do i run driver sweeper in safe mode?
should i grab the latest ones or will theyhave issues if they are so new?

 

right i looked on the site, which is the best driver for me - i have a 8800m GTX?

 

install driver sweeper (after u download it obviously) and when ur in safe mode, just run it and clean the nvidia drivers.

im using the 180.43 driver, and no issues so far....though i dont know how it will be on the 8800 gtx....but u can always roll back drivers if the latest ones dont work

 

why cant you run in from normal windows?
thanx for the info, im hearing 178.24 are good as are 179.13 but it doesnt say what the graphics card is

 

I find the 180 series drivers work well for my 8800M GTX, currently running 180.43

 

okay thanx, im trying the 179.13 one first then if that doesnt work well ill try the 180.43 version

 

you sure you we're running in high perfoormance mode?

 

i'm getting bout 9.5k.. ummm..

the landscape mode thing, it IS supposed to be like that.. 0-1 fps.. because that's a CPU stress test and your GPU isn't supposed to be used much, so that yr cpu's 'score' can be calculated.. so don't worry bout the 2 cpu-tests and the 1fps

 

what you mean in the battery thing - yeah im sure it was but ill give it another go just in case.

 

another guy thought he was in high performance mode as well, but found he was running in power saver mode.....

 

yeah it seems as though i wasnt as i just ran it again and got 9,254 - i still think this is a tad low i was expecting to go over the 10,000 mark. maybe updating to visat 64bit and updating the graphics driver might help improve this

 

ash, are you running in 3d performance mode or quality mode?

 

im not sure, how do i check?
i have the free version of 3d marks if thats important

 

this would be quality mode, but can be changed to performance mode

 

right ive made it to quality mode, i guess performance mode with give better 3d mark scores?

i run again with these settings see what happens

 

yes, change it to performance

 

what setting for performance?
i ran with quality settings and got, 9426

 

^^^Wow thats good..........Me on the otherhand with my new 5793 just cant seem to get my 3dmark06 score above 8700, Ive tried everything i did most of the vista tweaks, With my stock drivers i scored 8675 and when i updated to 178.15 my score went down to 8665. I have the fans on high, the power plan set on high performance as well as nividea's setting.
When I uninstalled the old drivers i didnt run any sweeper and when i went to install the drivers i forgot to do it in safe mode could that have caused a problem?
Please would appreciate any help i can get.

 

is this the one with the 9800m gts?

 

^^^Yea its the 9800m GTS with the T8300 2.4Ghz

 

the best i got out of the 9800m gts was 11,115-over clocked & stock was 9500.
with:
[email protected] ghz running at 3.0 ghz 6 meg cache
4 gigs ram
raid0 5400 rpm
1280x1024 resolution on the screen

edit: but i only had the system for 4 days before returning it...
and the other person higher than me at the time was E-wrecked with an 11,274 using a x9100 slightly down clocked due to tzs0 over heating.

 

^^^ nice congrats..........but that still doesnt help my problem lol

 

yes it does... your only going to get so high with that 2.4 3 meg cache cpu and you still have to over clock to even get to the mid 10k range.

 

ah well thanks for the info, i honestly thought i would of made around 9.2k on average but i guess i was wrong. Well it still runs pretty good to me considering i just upgraded from an integrated card

But man would luv to see how games would run on ur system with those scores

 

your card is software over clockable...just use ntue 6.03

 

i found your problem..... you are using vista. If you change to xp i will bet you $$ that you will be 9-9.2

 

doesnt really count if it's xp...needs to be vista 32 or higher..xp is a down grade and it doesn't run vantage mark either.

 

What system are you running here? It's not a 5793 or 8660 as you said you have raid...

 

it was to give an idea of what the 9800m gts is capable of doing. with a higher end cpu. and actually the raid really had no bearing on the 3dmark test.