Slow clevo, working on making it better.

Well, after the initial joy and happiness wears off from receiving a brand new computer and I started looking at what I have, and I realized there was a great deal of room for improvement.

AvaDirect sent me a D901c with a 3dmark06 score of 6700. I live in a remote area of the world and the internet is really poor, I've finally managed to download the shareware version of 3dmar06 and I installed the 174.70 drivers from laptopvideo2go and I got a score of 8400. But the shareware 3dmark06 only allows 1280x1024 and I assume the test Avadirect ran was in the 1900x1220 WUXGA native format. So the score improvement could be as a result of resolution difference.

This computer wasn't optimized at all and I am slowly working my way through the drivers to see that they are the best ones I can manage to get. 3dmark06 CPU test completely destroyed my lappy and I was seeing 0-1 FPS. I don't know if thats normal or not. I can see in the task manage performance tab that there are 4 cores up and running but sometimes I see that only one of the core has activity as high as 90%. What should I look for to determine if I'm set up for quad core performance?

Thanks for your help.

 

Currently I'm downloading the 167.44 Drivers from sager, and I'll run a test with those.

None of this stuff is certified and I have to press f8 during start up to start the OS without the registration requirement whenever I change drivers, what this means is that the current and accurate information in the device manager isn't available. Bit of a pain and a real annoyance to have a video card that isn't being fully supported yet. I understand that there are some underclocking issues as well and that I might need to get some overclocking software just to get the video card to clock to its design settings.

 

most times when we run 06 for comparisons is in 1280x1024.then compare scores.

you have more or less the same notebook as I.

I use XP operating system.

in 3dmark 06 pro but running it @ 1280x1024 default I got 10198

 

Yea, vista scores are a bit lower, from what I've been reading but 9500ish is within reason. I just ran the test with the 167.44 driver, which is the vista 64 stock driver from sager, and I got a score of 7183, about 1200 points lower than the 174.70 driver.

I need to do a better install, I think. I need some sort of driver cleaning software, any recommendations?

 

Reinstalled the 174.70 driver and got a score of 7800 previously with this driver installed I had a score of 8400. Not good.

 

I get 10070 on 3DMARK06 with .43 driver on VISTA 64. Out of the box with no tweaks.

With a Q6600 you should get around 9500.

 

Hey what bios version is installed on your machines?

This one has Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00, 1/10/2008