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    Things to do, new laptop? And wPrime not working

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Chango99, May 2, 2009.

  1. Chango99

    Chango99 Derp

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    I just got my refurbed e6400 from the outlet today and I need help on what I should be checking out.

    I ran PCMark Vantage and got around 3600. Is this decent/good for my specs?
    For 3DMark06, I got 1800 or so. Same question

    Specs:

    P8600 C2D 2.4GHz
    Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M
    4GB Ram
    250GB 7200 RPM
    etc

    The PCMark Vantage score seems low, i'm not sure what I should be expecting though, so I wanted to try wPrime but both 200 and 155 don't work for me, any help?

    Anything else I should check/benchmark? I might benchmark the HDD too.

    Boot up time from fresh was 1 minute to reach the account login.

    When I try to open wPrime, I get an Error: Unexpected error; quitting.
     
    Chango99, May 2, 2009
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  2. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Assuming it's Vista, be sure to check this out. :rolleyes:

    Cheers...
     
    pixelot, May 2, 2009
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  3. streather

    streather Notebook Evangelist

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    could the wprime problem be related to what OS your running, from those specs i'd assume its vista 64bit?
     
    streather, May 2, 2009
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  4. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    wprime runs fine on x64 Vista.

    Try running wprime.exe as administrator.
     
    goofball, May 2, 2009
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  5. olyteddy

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    Well before I wasted a lot of time on benchmarks and stuff, I'd check to see that your laptop can perform the task(s) you purchased it for. That is, unless you bought it strictly to run benchmarks and stuff. If that's the case, then I'd say it has failed miserably because:
     
    olyteddy, May 3, 2009
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