In need of geforce go 7300 scores

Question

After going round and round with Dell tech support for days I'm still at a loss here. I run 3Dmark06 and aquamark on my system and get terrible scores. I have: 2ghz Centrino Duo (scores well on tests) Geforce Go 7300 256meg video card (performs very poorly on tests) 2g of ram WinXP pro I guess the thing is that Dell has no way to test to make sure the graphics card is working as intended, only that it is working. Can anyone else out there please post their 3Dmark06 and/or Aquamark scores so I can decide if the machine is having a problem or if it is just a poor machine overall? I've been trying to play World of Warcraft (older game) and, even at lower settings, the game will not go much beyond 10fps. I have a much older laptop which can manage 30fps so, I would think, this new Dell would be able to do better than it is. Any comments?

FlyingArrow · Answer

I have an x1300 in my new laptop, which is an ATI card and similar in performance to the Nvidia 7300 go. I can play newer games on medium settings or low setting and get acceptable game performance. Both of these Graphics cards are considered low end and its perfectly normal to get a low score in 3Dmark. Lowering in game graphic settings should usually make a game more playable. I've never played world of warcraft, so I can't comment on that sorry.

noelsaw · Answer

There is a usually a performance setting that you can access by right clicking on your desktop. You should see an option for 'NVIDIA Display' -> Laptop Display. You'll get what looks like NVidia Display Control Panel. There is a vertical tab for 'Performance & Quality Settings' there. See if you can tweak any of those to make a difference.   This is also a good 3rd party site about NVIDIA chips for laptops: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

Calcier · Answer

I have set everything on the card to max performance; however, the game still performs poorly. This game runs just fine on a 4 year old laptop with a 128meg graphics card, half the RAM, and a much poorer processor. I just need to know if the types of scores I'm getting with Aquamark and 3Dmark06 are accurate or odd. I am going to return the machine if it can't out perform my old laptop; however, I want to make sure it is a performance problem with ALL of the modle or if it is just a problem with the one I have.

FlyingArrow · Answer

Sometimes getting the latest game patch from the publisher of the game sometimes helps. Nvidia 7300 go like I stated before is a low end GFX card and its not unusual to recieve a poor score from 3Dmark.

Calcier · Answer

But how low is low? Perhaps you can run it on your machine with the ATI card in it?

FlyingArrow · Answer

Its the lowest GFX in the Geforce 7 series just like the 6200 was the lowest GFX in the 6 series. Its probably slightly better than the 6200, but I have no benchmarks to be certain. I'll run 3Dmark 06 and post back with the results of it running on an x1300.

Calcier · Answer

Ah, see, the Geforce got a rating of 300, something is very wrong.

FlyingArrow · Answer

I'm Running 3Dmark 06 on an Inspiron 6400 my specs are: Core Duo 1.6Ghz 1GB of Ram x1300 hypermemory My 3Dmark 06 score is: 629 sm2.0 score: 204 HDR/SM3.0 score: 237 CPU score:1284

FlyingArrow · Answer

Worth searching Google because I found quite a few matches concerning the 7300 GO. I'm not really a technical expert on this, but from what I gather the x1300 is suppose to use a 128bit interface and the 7300 is from what I read uses a 64bit interface. Apparently this can effect the bandwidth.

funmunke · Answer

Hope no one minds if I get on my soap box for a minute.   If you are running Vista the best you can do with a 7300 is basically a 3.0. I'm sorry but for a 256meg card, that is beyond awful. The ATI X1400 is said to be a little better.   A big problem is - THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO CARDS.  If you have a e1705 you can do better. If you went down to an e1505 so you'd have a battery they could last more then one movie you're out of luck. To say the least I am very disappointed with the choices Dell gave you for that PC.   If you are a daring person you could try to convert to the 64 bit version of windows but you could put yourself into a whole new world of hurt by doing that.

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