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post #1 of 21
7/29/06 at 2:27am
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very strange...

just got my 9700 today, went through, updated the amd driver, got windows security updates, installed patched wow, reset computer numerious times,

yet my 3DMarks (05) are only in the low/mid 7000s

and the performance in wow was completely acceptable, but not quiet what i was expecting 20-45fps everything on, also the benchies Alienware said it got befor shiping was 9697...
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post #2 of 21
7/29/06 at 2:31am
Is one of your video cards disable or are you running it on battery?
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post #3 of 21
7/29/06 at 2:35am
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on AC power, made sure it is set to Always on, and SLI is enabled, i tried disableing it, and i did notice fps drops in 3D marks also :/

though it seems it would then be scoreing lower than again 1 card would be expected to, but i didnt let it go through the tests to see the final sore
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post #4 of 21
7/29/06 at 2:37am
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7024 is what i just got ... it does recognize both cards, saying 512 total ..


Display Device 1/1 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Driver 8.4.7.4 Description NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS Manufacturer NVIDIA Total Local Video Memory 256 MB Total Local Texture Memory 256 MB Total AGP Memory 512 MB Driver File nv4_disp.dll Driver Version 8.4.7.4 Driver Date 5-8-2006 Driver WHQL Certified true Max Texture Width 4096 px Max Texture Height 4096 px Max User Clipping Planes 6 Max Active Hardware Lights 8 Max Texture Blending Stages 8 Fixed Function Textures In Single Pass 8 Vertex Shader Version 3.0 Pixel Shader Version 3.0 Max Vertex Blend Matrices 0 Max Texture Coordinates 8 VGA Memory Clock 0.0 Hz VGA Core Clock 0.0 Hz
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post #5 of 21
7/29/06 at 9:27am
Did you have a 3dmark score that AW provided. I had a shortcut on my desktop as well as a printed off score saying what the machine scored at the factory...
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post #6 of 21
7/29/06 at 11:20am
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\yeah thats the 9697, this morning i opened the bottom to make sure everything is tight, reseated the ram, 7216 after that :/ still something not working right


something else interesting, when i try to start the function key controller, for a fraction of a second it starts to load something (hourglass) then nothing, tried uninstalling and reinstalling the controller... still nothing
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post #7 of 21
7/29/06 at 12:42pm
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Well i just used my respawn CD (hah its already paid for itself!)

and just benchmarked 9771! so i guess alls well that ends well


other than this function key controller thing.. still not seemin to work, will put a post under peer-to-peer support for it
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post #8 of 21
7/29/06 at 4:57pm
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Originally Posted by tboy
Well i just used my respawn CD (hah its already paid for itself!)

and just benchmarked 9771! so i guess alls well that ends well


other than this function key controller thing.. still not seemin to work, will put a post under peer-to-peer support for it

Sometimes windows update can cause issues... Glad you got it figured out.
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post #9 of 21
7/29/06 at 5:48pm
Where would I find my official score from Alienware. Benchmarking I mean.

I see under "My Alienware PC Info" that they did an official test of my system. I want to see my score.
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post #10 of 21
7/29/06 at 6:53pm
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Thats where it is, atleast on mine, lets see here...

section III.

for 3DMark 2005, for me the first bullet is the benchmark score
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post #11 of 21
7/29/06 at 9:08pm
I only have Doom 3-- 85.7 fps.. ???
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post #12 of 21
7/30/06 at 12:50am
Thread Starter 
thats strange mine reads....


III. Burn-In/Benchmarks
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Doom 3
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* Doom 3: 98.7 fps

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3DMark 2005
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* Game Tests
o 3DMark Score: 9,697.00 3DMarks
o GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 36.96 FPS
o GT2 - Firefly Forest: 29.39 FPS
o GT3 - Canyon Flight: 53.73 FPS
* CPU Tests
o CPU Score: 4,268.00 CPUMarks
o CPU Test 1: 2.06 FPS
o CPU Test 2: 3.93 FPS
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post #13 of 21
7/30/06 at 11:22pm
Great score, however I think the m9700 is capable of much more than that. Look at my score below. I almost broke 10,000 with stock settings and the cards not optimized for 3dmark. I'm still using the athlon drivers and have not updated my nvidia drivers either. Do I dare try to break 10k???
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post #14 of 21
7/31/06 at 2:26am
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Originally Posted by Kazkek
I only have Doom 3-- 85.7 fps.. ???

still a great score, but you gotta remember, you have the single GPU configuration you're not gonna quite get to the near 100 scores like those of us who ordered the sli version
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post #15 of 21
7/31/06 at 3:56am
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Originally Posted by Carter
still a great score, but you gotta remember, you have the single GPU configuration you're not gonna quite get to the near 100 scores like those of us who ordered the sli version

lol. I know I am not going to get near scores like you all have, I just want to know where my alienware score was. It wasnt in my pc info file
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post #16 of 21
7/31/06 at 4:31am
lol well i dunno about the pc info report yet lol i don't have my m9700 yet
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post #17 of 21
8/6/06 at 9:48pm
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Originally Posted by tboy
thats strange mine reads....


III. Burn-In/Benchmarks
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Doom 3
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* Doom 3: 98.7 fps

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3DMark 2005
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* Game Tests
o 3DMark Score: 9,697.00 3DMarks
o GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 36.96 FPS
o GT2 - Firefly Forest: 29.39 FPS
o GT3 - Canyon Flight: 53.73 FPS
* CPU Tests
o CPU Score: 4,268.00 CPUMarks
o CPU Test 1: 2.06 FPS
o CPU Test 2: 3.93 FPS

Whoa...what the hell!!! I have almost the same configuration you have and the benchmarks that alienware had for me at the factory was 9300 something! How does that happen?????
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post #18 of 21
8/6/06 at 9:57pm
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Originally Posted by officernick2003
Whoa...what the hell!!! I have almost the same configuration you have and the benchmarks that alienware had for me at the factory was 9300 something! How does that happen?????

Have you run the benchmark yourself? Get the latest cpu driver from AMD if you haven't already, download the free version of 3dMark05, reboot the system and run it at standard settings and see what you get.

Each run you'll get slight variations in scores, but most people I'm seeing are getting about 9500-9600 out of the box. 9300 isn't far from that, but several things could have affected the score run from environmental, to software, to resources and hardware related issues.

I'm sure AW has a minimum score that passes, so your score must have been in the acceptable range for them to ship it out.

I've seen a couple people that were in the 7700 range, they used their respawn image, and suddenly they were seeing 9600+... go figure...
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post #19 of 21
8/6/06 at 10:35pm
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Originally Posted by Hammerhead
Have you run the benchmark yourself? Get the latest cpu driver from AMD if you haven't already, download the free version of 3dMark05, reboot the system and run it at standard settings and see what you get.

Each run you'll get slight variations in scores, but most people I'm seeing are getting about 9500-9600 out of the box. 9300 isn't far from that, but several things could have affected the score run from environmental, to software, to resources and hardware related issues.

I'm sure AW has a minimum score that passes, so your score must have been in the acceptable range for them to ship it out.

I've seen a couple people that were in the 7700 range, they used their respawn image, and suddenly they were seeing 9600+... go figure...

Yes, I have run 3dmark05 myself and the scores I get range from the high 9300's to the 9000 range. I have the updated driver for my cpu...I dunno what else I could do? I really want to avoid using the respawn/recovery disk though. I've never used it before even on my desktop, I know it's supposed to be user friendly...but I dunno...
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post #20 of 21
8/8/06 at 1:52am
So, I'm getting about 6500 on 3dMark05 with dual 9700s (SLI enabled). This is obviously a bit lower than I expected given what I've read here. I've tried all of the suggestions I've read (changing image settings, power settings, etc.) and have seen only slight fluctuations in the score. Unfortunately I didn't opt for the respawn disc when I bought the computer so that isn't exactly an option. Any suggestions?
Luckily, games seem to be running fantastic so I'm not exactly complaining...this thing is leaps and bounds better than my old machine
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