momopopo Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Hi I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a 8600m gt video card and my problem is... well just look below... Before Running 3dmark06 After Running 3dmark06 The scores are ridiculously low to say the least and none of the clock frequencies changed as the 3dmark06 test ran. CPU score is decent.. Here's a pic of my computer's specs I checked the Power Plan Management and I'm using "High Performance" Computer is plugged in while I ran the test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 try a new driver like 175.16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooLMinE Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 What are your temps under full load ? :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 yeah.. same machine and i got just over 5,000 in '06 test. using 174.74. overclocked to 550 & 840 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momopopo Posted June 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 What are your temps under full load ? :S Never higher than 65 degrees celcius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooLMinE Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Thats pretty good. What drivers are you using ? Did you try a few just to make sure its not your drivers problem ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momopopo Posted June 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Thats pretty good. What drivers are you using ? Did you try a few just to make sure its not your drivers problem ? Well here we go let's see... I just switched to the 174.74 drivers and got 4x my score (4077 3dmark) on default clock frequencies. (475/950/400) with temperature of ~50 degrees However, when I used riva tuner to OC it, scores 2037. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooLMinE Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Hm, try overclock it little by little (5mhz) and see when does the performance starts dropping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momopopo Posted June 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Hm, try overclock it little by little (5mhz) and see when does the performance starts dropping. lol you make me look like the dumbest person in the world. I did that and now my score is at 4142 3DMarks and frequencies at: 480/960/405 So I guess in my case was that I OCed it too high. But what i do find strange is that my card lowers its clock settings when i set them too high? I assumed that it would've just artifacted or freeze my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooLMinE Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Yea usually setting up the frequencies higher than the card can handle it causes shuttering and artifacts, in your case for some reason the card just perform less which is kinda odd indeed. And since that has nothing to do with overheating makes it even more strange. On the other hand, 650 from 475 seem a bit excessive. Might as well try reducing the cores frequency first to see if that?s the one affecting the performance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momopopo Posted June 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2008 (edited) Now for some reason when overclock my core to 550 or higher, my rivatuner hardware monitor shows the core clock going down to 100mhz. When I clock it to 549, it shows 594 in the hardware monitor. When I use GPUZ though, it shows me exactly how much I overclocked. Which one is correct? Edited June 6, 2008 by momopopo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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