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3dmark benching on i9300

post #1 of 7
4/14/05 at 3:59am
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Sonicwind, i see your sig says "3DMark03: 10,494 3DMark05: 4605 387/785 Xtreme G 75.9 "

At the same settings i'm only getting 4336. Here are my discoveries so far:

2936 3dmark - stock Driver from dell 6.14.10.6771
3257 3dmark - default settings 76.50

367core 745mem 76.50 driver - 4130 3dmark
387core 785mem 76.50 driver - 4336 3dmark
387core 800mem 76.50 driver - 4358 3dmark
395core 800mem 76.50 driver - 4439 3dmark - slight triangling

I have a 2ghz i9300 with 1gb ram.

I want to hit your 4605! Do i need to downgrade the driver?

Also where can i get instructions on taking the i9300 apart to do the AS5 on the GPU. I knew how to rip my old 8600 apart, but this laptop is a different beast.
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post #2 of 7
4/14/05 at 10:44am
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395core 800mem 76.50 driver - 4439 3dmark - slight triangling
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Curious, what does "slight triangling" mean?
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post #3 of 7
4/14/05 at 11:04am
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Originally Posted by Ozy311
Sonicwind, i see your sig says "3DMark03: 10,494 3DMark05: 4605 387/785 Xtreme G 75.9 "

At the same settings i'm only getting 4336. Here are my discoveries so far:

2936 3dmark - stock Driver from dell 6.14.10.6771
3257 3dmark - default settings 76.50

367core 745mem 76.50 driver - 4130 3dmark
387core 785mem 76.50 driver - 4336 3dmark
387core 800mem 76.50 driver - 4358 3dmark
395core 800mem 76.50 driver - 4439 3dmark - slight triangling

I have a 2ghz i9300 with 1gb ram.

I want to hit your 4605! Do i need to downgrade the driver?

Also where can i get instructions on taking the i9300 apart to do the AS5 on the GPU. I knew how to rip my old 8600 apart, but this laptop is a different beast.
I basically set all the settings I could find to high performance. I also turned both fans on high before I started the test. That's about it. Your stock scores look just like mine, when I first benched. When I benched at stock after setting the performance settings I got around 3400 at stock speeds. I haven't tried teh 76.5 drivers. I got scores more close to yours using the 76 drivers, but it also didn't seem stable. The 75.9 are the ones that seem to work best for my overclocking for some reason.

As far as dissasembling the 9300, the best instructions are on the Dell site. I guess just use the instructions for applying AS5 that come with it or have been used for other gpu/cpus.
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post #4 of 7
4/14/05 at 3:12pm
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Originally Posted by sonicwind
I basically set all the settings I could find to high performance. I also turned both fans on high before I started the test. That's about it. Your stock scores look just like mine, when I first benched. When I benched at stock after setting the performance settings I got around 3400 at stock speeds. I haven't tried teh 76.5 drivers. I got scores more close to yours using the 76 drivers, but it also didn't seem stable. The 75.9 are the ones that seem to work best for my overclocking for some reason. Everything worked ok on my old 8600

As far as dissasembling the 9300, the best instructions are on the Dell site. I guess just use the instructions for applying AS5 that come with it or have been used for other gpu/cpus.
You tweaked the driver settings? AH, thats cheating. When we bench normally we are talking how it runs in defaults. Its not really comparable at that point. But what settings did u use for high performance? In the driver panel? And if so, which ones? I can try downgrading to the 75.9 ExG's. Can you give me a link to it? Its hard to find that stuff on guru3d's site. Also, I cant get SpeedSwitchXP to properly detect max speed? Mine doesnt.

As far as the case goes, i was able to get the top back panel off and keyboard out, but it seems as if the GPU sink cover is still under some plastics making me think i'm going ot have to remove the top half of the shell to get to it. Am i right? I hope i don't have to disassemble it that far.

Slight Triangling would mean that certain surfaces in game would flicker on & off.
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post #5 of 7
4/15/05 at 6:45am
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Any updates?
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post #6 of 7
4/20/05 at 4:32am

How do use drivers

never run a benchmark before, but I wanted to make sure my brand new 9300 is running as it should.

so I downloaded 3dmark05 for free and just ran it. i got a benchmark of 2937. Sounds normal, right?

I removed a bunch of background programs like mcafee and messenger etc, downloaded the 76.50 drivers, and put the laptop in a cooler place and reran 3dmark05. This time my score dropped to 2930. WTH?


How do I know if I installed the 76.50 drivers correctly and how do I change settings as listed above?
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post #7 of 7
4/21/05 at 5:54am
Right click on the desktop and click on 'NVIDIA Display', then 'Laptop Display'. The first menu item on the left (as you bring your cursor over the main window's title bar will be on Gefore 6800Go, and in that window it will tell you driver revisions, eg 75.90 etc, the menus on the left allow all the tuning, overclocking etc

Good luck!
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