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Originally Posted by dgcaste
Are you sure that is the resolution your 3dmark runs at? You're right, mine does run at 1280x1024. Anyway, my individual scores are 1707, 1719, and 809. the cpu score makes sense, maybe the others are a result of your rez? you should try running it at 1280x1024. that's dumb, how the default resolution isn't really standard.
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I've been noticing your posts all over the board, you're cracking me up. You're getting excellent benchmark scores for the setup you've got, but running around worried and paranoid because they aren't any better. Relax, what's a few points on an artificial benchmark? The important thing is, can your computer do what you want it to do (run your desired software), at the speed you expect it to?
Like I told you in the other thread, CPU speed was the primary difference in the scores you two were getting there, and that the memory (single channel vs. dual channel) had some impact but not enough to worry about. Here, it's quite obvious that you both are running at different resolutions, becuase HIS SCREEN'S NATIVE RESOLUTION IS LOWER THAN YOURS AND THEREFORE CAN'T SUPPORT AS HIGH A RESOLUTION AS YOURS DOES, PERIOD! And HIS SCREEN DOESN'T SUPPORT 1280x1024, LIKE YOURS DOES, PERIOD! If you both run the benchmarks at native resolutions his will naturally be faster because his resolution is considerably less taxing to the videocard than yours.
Everyone wants to get the most out of their systems and I'm no different, but you have to remember we're dealing with mass produced laptops with their inherent limited cooling solutions and Dell's limited BIOS options in extracting the most from what we've got. All we can really do is install the fastest drives and CPUs and clock GPUs so that they'll operate in the very limited cooling envelope Dell has provided, using those standard vanilla, extremely limited RAM timings and FSB settings within their BIOS, and that's all! So the speed differences between machines with similar components are going to be limited and primarily going to be influenced on how we've set-up our individual OS and the software we have running on them.
You sound like you have a great curiosity and desire to get the most out of your machine, but based upon what you already have (a nicely configured I9300) there are only so many more things you can do, they all require additional cost, and the price to performance gained is going to be expensive and show only little improvement. My advice (based upon what you said in the other thread) is that once you get your new 1gig stick of RAM, is to save your money and don't put any more into your rig. Then when the next gen machines are introduced, sell your current one and take the plunge on a newer one. (That is, if you want dramatically improved scores.) Otherwise just be happy with what you've got, because like I said in the other thread your rig is faster than 95% of what's out there.
But I'll warn you from my 20plus years of computing experience, computers are like crack and highly addictive. Once you get on the upgrade treadmill it's hard to get off. Because just as soon as you've bought the latest greatest fastest thing out there, something better is introduced and you'll be right back to where you are right now, again, yearning for that next best thing. You can never stay on top for long. It's an expensive hobby and can ruin a marriage if you're obsessive about it (it did mine). I figure over the last 2 decades I wasted enough money to buy a house, before I finally got off of that treadmill. (Wasted is the right word too because computing isn't an investment, it's an expense. Just ask the IRS, that's why businesses are allowed to depreciate computers at an accelerated rate.) Something to think about.
Ciao
. I got my EMT certification a couple of months ago and have been working part-time at the university; it's a start.
. Is your bootdisk corrupted? As long as wfflash works without any problems, no worries.
... no offense to those smart people that like to augment their posts with these though. You know what I mean.
