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post #41 of 178
10/17/04 at 1:41pm
Yes, your right Sakor1. There's nothing to be gained here.What are the rules as far as the 3dmark settings? Keep them default or can they be tweeked for better performance? What about Display Properties? Can those be tweeked for a higher bench score? If so, would you want to run your games at these settings being that the visual quality gets lowered with each speed adjustment?
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post #42 of 178
10/17/04 at 2:04pm
Inspiron 700m
CPU: Pentium M 1.60Ghz (Dothan)
Memory: 768mb (Shared)
Hard Drive: 40GB, 5400rpm, 8mb cache
Graphics Card: 64mb Intel EXTREME Graphics 2
3DMark2001: 2429! Are you 9100/XPS owners jealous? If not... then check out my 3DMark03 scores!....Oh yeah. I forget. I can't complete it, since my gpu doesn't support T&L.
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post #43 of 178
10/17/04 at 2:10pm
How did you get 8k?
on your 3Dmark03 Ralph 9100 i want mine that high tooo
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post #44 of 178
10/17/04 at 4:11pm
just for everyone's reference I am using the free versions of 3dmark and have all of it's settings left on default
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post #45 of 178
10/17/04 at 5:15pm




Inspiron 9100
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2GHz (Prescott)
Memory: 1GB corsair XMS
Hard Drive: 60GB, 7,200 RPM
Graphics Card: 256MB MR9800
Clock Speeds: 430/375
Drivers: Omega 2.5.76


3dmark03: 8,005
3dmark05: 3,334

and deltaone: If you have the same specs I'm not sure why our scores would be much different... maybe it's the overclocking if you haven't tried that I reinstalled XP when I got the computer and always run the tests after a restart.... I've also created custom profiles to make sure that the minimum number of processes are running while I play games/run benchmarks/etc, but I don't think they make too much of a difference
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post #46 of 178
10/17/04 at 5:21pm
i made a second partition with Xp on it and turned off everything that does not need to be on and my scores went up considerably
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post #47 of 178
10/17/04 at 7:14pm
woohoo 13,556 in 3dmark01SE
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8188906

using DNA 3.1.4.10b
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post #48 of 178
10/17/04 at 7:42pm
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Originally Posted by ComputerGeek737
i made a second partition with Xp on it and turned off everything that does not need to be on and my scores went up considerably
windows is supposed to automatically place itself on the fastest part of the hard drive when installing, so there's no need to create a separate partition... just a note for anyone who was considering doing this *shrugs*
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post #49 of 178
10/17/04 at 7:54pm
what i meant was, I have my regular partition that I use everyday with all my stuff installed. I made another partition and installed XP on it and only installed the neccesary drivers and 3dmark programs and nothing else. I also turned off all services but the bare essentials. so it has nothing to do with placement on the drive. there is just no other programs loaded to steal memory and cpu cycles
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post #50 of 178
10/18/04 at 12:19am
man i wish i knew how to overclocke and format my computer this is my first windows and i dont wanna fudge anything up.
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post #51 of 178
10/18/04 at 1:20am
don't worry everything will be fine, isn't there an FAQ on the formatting and stuff? if not we should make one
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post #52 of 178
10/18/04 at 3:55am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Rick S.
Yes, your right Sakor1. There's nothing to be gained here.What are the rules as far as the 3dmark settings? Keep them default or can they be tweeked for better performance? What about Display Properties? Can those be tweeked for a higher bench score? If so, would you want to run your games at these settings being that the visual quality gets lowered with each speed adjustment?
You may do anything you like as far as what drivers you use, changing the driver settings, tweaking and such.... but you do have to leave 3dMark itself on the default testing options, anything else is fair game. The idea is generally to get the highest/ fastest score, which is not necessarily synonomous with best visual quality, most wouldn't play games at these settings.


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Originally Posted by ComputerGeek737
don't worry everything will be fine, isn't there an FAQ on the formatting and stuff? if not we should make one
There is info on doing this (mostly in reference to the excellent Black Viper guide) in both the General and the XPS/ 9100 FAQ's. So never fear

Sorry guys, not ignoring... haven't updated for all the latest as of yet but will dig into that a little later after I have done a few other things, keep them coming in, we still have sections unrepresented!

Stu
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post #53 of 178
10/19/04 at 6:45am
Thread Starter 
OK, its updated guys. Still plenty of sections unrepresented for all three cards, take a look in the FAQ. That is pretty much instant entry to the hall of fame if you post for a section not covered yet! Get to it people.

Stu
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post #54 of 178
10/19/04 at 8:55pm
Ok, rerunning the benchmarks and taking screenshots.. will do standard and overclocked values with the clock speeds shown in the screen shots.
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post #55 of 178
10/20/04 at 6:06am
Just Ran 3dMark 05 (see image). My system is a iXPS 3.4, 9800 256M running Omega Drivers (stock mem and gpu speeds), 1Gig Cas 3 Ram , 100Gig slow arse drive. The Minor optimizations done that where listed in the FAQ (no reinstall). The score is 2658. I don't have a screenshot but when I received the computer from dell the first thing I did was run this benchmark and the score was 2230. Decent improvement

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post #56 of 178
10/24/04 at 3:30am
Thread Starter 
Updated once more for latest. Keep the scores coming guys, there are still plenty of places to fill, particularly from 128MB MR9700 owners (where are you guys?!). And if you beat a currently listed score remember to post too, and you take the lead on the scoreboard! Good benchmarking.

Cheers,
Stu
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post #57 of 178
10/25/04 at 2:45am
Well Stu,

Just took the non-overclocked record for '05... heres the screen...

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post #58 of 178
10/25/04 at 2:54am
Thread Starter 
Cool, added it. Need to know the driver version you were using for your scores if possible too (eg: Omega 2.5.90).

Stu
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post #59 of 178
10/25/04 at 3:05am
Omega 2.5.90's... here is my score for non-oc' 3dMark03
with the same omegas

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post #60 of 178
10/25/04 at 3:53am
Sorry to keep buggin... last one for the night i promise... same specs no o'c

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