Satellite A100-192 - X1600 seriously underclocked?

Hello,
Yesterday I bought the Toshiba Satellite A100-192 with the X1600 Mobilty Radeon onboard. To my big disappointment it is clocked way below the nominal settings (470/470) - my cards is only 398/378, which makes it seriously slower than other laptops like Asus w3j...

Is it normal? Does anyone know anything about it?

Thanks in advance for help.

 

All notebook manufacturers clock video cards differently. The way i understand it, the notebook makers decide what clock speeds are best for any particular machine in respect to issues of heat and stability. My Asus W2JB with a mobility X1600 came with the settings at 418/468 which is well below what the card can handle and different from an Asus W3J stock settings with the same card.

I recently used ATI Tool and moderately "overclocked" it to 440/480. I haven't seen any rise in temps or decrease in stability. I suggest you try it too but (disclaimer ahead) be very careful and take "baby steps" when doing this as serious hardware damage could result.

 

Thanks, I tried to experiment with Ati Tool and so far I overclocked the card to 460/430 and it looks fine Though I still don't like the default settings to be that low. If I pay more for X1600 then I want it to act like X1600, not something 30 % slower...

 

Read my thread entitled "X1600 overclock area" and you'll see my 3dMark results. Maybe the manufacturers know something we don't. I don't see the real benefit of bringing the GPU speeds up if it's only gonna reap a few hundred 3DMarks or a few frames per second. YMMV though.