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Hello all. I have a friend who is having problems with his computer. He has an e1505 Dell laptop with a ati x1400 and is running Vista. I believe his processor is a dual core 1.83 GHz and he has 2GB of RAM. From what I've read, he should be scoring somewhere between 1600-2100 with the x1400, but he repeatedly only gets a score of 1050.

He had all applications closed when running the test. I have not seen him actually perform the benchmark, so I do not know if there are any obvious problems with how he ran the test. Do you guys have any suggestions for what may be wrong with his setup? I am having a large LAN soon, and I want to make sure that his computer is up to snuff. Thanks!

S. K.

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It's possible that his computer is overheating and is throttling back to cool down. Dell's cooling systems have never been great . If he can, tell him to use a temperature monitor like Intel TAT or PCWizard2008 etc. to see what temperatures he's hitting during his 3DMard runs.

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Also check for new drivers for the card. I installed new ones for my 7950GTX and got almost 100 point increase in 3dmark06. If there aren't any on the Dell site, check on ATI/AMD's site.

thanks for the suggestions guys. i highly highly doubt that the computer is throttling. that seems stupid. especially since other e1505's don't seem to have this problem

also, it's not a driver issue. we're not talking about a 100 point discrepency. we're talking about looking to increase the score by 50%.

any other ideas guys????? could something be slowing down the gpu, kind of like a CPU cool and quiet deal?

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I know with NVidia cards they have something called Powermizer which is basically the same thing as Speedstep, just for the GPU. I've never had a laptop with an ATi card in it, so I don't know if there is a similar program. Check your Catalyst control panel for it, probably under power settings or something like that.

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