Performance Rating!!

My performance rating is being bottlenecked by my video chipset as it only got a score of 4.9, thus my overall score which is determined by lowest score is 4.9, which is not fair, coz my laptop is avergaing a 6 rating in all other aspects.

But i'm surprised, how come my nVIDIA 9600 M is only scoring 4.9? I thought this was one of the best laptop chipsets?

I am using the 186.03 64 bit nforce drivers FTW



any tips guys?

 

and it's still only a laptop chipset. there are much better desktop chipsets => they gain the better scores.

you could of course hack your own scores by manipulating the results-file. other than that, just accept it that way. it makes sense, more sense than averaging the scores. if you had a game that needs a 5.5 at least to run slowdown free, then your pc maybe can't deliver, even while it would be >5.5 in average.

 

true, you are right, one aspect any hardware being bad would affect the whole game even if the rest are fine (ie. bottleneck)

 

Are we really going to have to start telling users (again) that WEI is a fairly useless benchmark?

 

Does hacking the results actually mean that the system recognizes it? I have wanted to run Aero, but can't, being limited by Intel's lack of a driver, even though my chipset can run it. I receive 1's for Graphics and Gaming. If I edit them to make them 3s, will it let me run Aero?

 

no, we should actually stop spreading that fud. it works, it shows numbers, they are understandable, and allow to determine easily where the systems bottleneck is. together with apps stating what they want as a minimum rating to work well, they work very well actually.

but it was a new feature of vista => it had to be a failure </amazingsarcasmtagnevergetsold>

 

Actually WEI works better in windows 7.

 

yep, it's a bit faster to create the WEI.

 

No, what I meant was that the benchmark is more accurate than that in Vista.

 

that i don't know, so far i have not experienced untrue ratings on vista, really.. but others have reported it.

and, no matter what, i hope they improved it, even if it was fine before

 

4.9 is probably about right for the 9600mgt, it's pretty far down the list of mobile graphics cards. You could raise that score by overclocking the 9600mgt with Nvidia system tools.

 

9600M isn't one of the best laptop chipsets by far. It's mid-ranged, but quite a bit below a 9700, and not even comparable with a 9800/260 or 280... and some systems have those in SLI.

 

I have the laptop in my signature and it is well over a year old, and the 8800M GTS is still better than the 9600M you have (5.8 in WEI)