Is little 17 year old higney upset?

To the original poster;  if you have a 32mb fx5200 your scores aren't way off.  I just benchmarked a 3.06 W/ HT straight out of the box from dell with a fx5200 32mb and got 3750.  The fx5200 card is junk; that's why everyone is buying the m9000.

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@Higney85 wrote:
Well at least I am getting a better education- your math is pathetic... 2004-1985= almost 19... not 17. Thanks for playing. The scary part is that if you are older- and I think you are- you are acting very immature. This thread is about benchmarking.. Im in the 8000 range- what about your score?

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Hey guys!

I started this thread cuz I'm getting REALLY low benchmark scores (3000 instead of around 7500)

I need HELP!!

Please help out if you can,

It is not about who has the highest benchmark scores.  Who cares anyway?  If you're happy with the card performance, good.  If not, get another card or another laptop.

Sorry this got out of hand ipunel01, but how much memory do you have on the 5200?  This will affect the synthetic benchmark score we are all arguing about.

ripper

512 RAM

64mb Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200

What drivers are you running?

I've heard about similar issues in this thread.  It's a long read but likely worth it.  Something to do with the AGP setting.

Make sure you don't have aa and/or af on.   Your scores should be MUCH higher than that.   I got about 4600 on my 32 meg 5200, and that's only on a p4 2.66.

As for the 9000......LAF.    That's a downgrade to the 5200 and anyone with an IQ greater than 15 knows it.    The 5200 is no high end card, but it's at least a dx9 card.    The 9000 is based on a castrated 8500 core, and that chip is what, 3 years old?   Here's some benchies showing the 5200 slaughtering the 9200.    http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1933&p=2

Let's not waste any more time arguing about the obvious.   If the 9000 wasn't yesterdays news, then Dell would still offer it, now wouldn't they?

So what kind of speed jump did you see between the 32 and 64 meg 5200's anyway?

i dont have AA or AF enabled,

my 3dMark2001 SE (Build 330) settings are:

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
1024x768, 32 Bit color
No antialiasing, Frame Buffer: Double
Texture format: Compressed, Z-Buffer Depth: 24 Bit
D3D Pure Hardware T&L

I'm no tekkie, but this smells like one of the mem modules might be fried.  That's if the 64meg mem isn't on a single chip.  I've searched this forum for someone who complained about the same symptoms.  That's why I suggested the AGP thing, something about the card running at PCI settings vs the AGP.  Think it was suggested they reload  the Intel chipset drivers(maybe) and it seemed to have fixed it.  Sorry I can't find the thread, I'll keep looking. 

Have you tried booting from the Dell Diagnostic CD to test the card?

You may try re-posting in the video forum, but don't say anything about benchmarking or you'll attract debate.  Some will talk about the overheating issue, just be patient.

Wish I could be more help.

ripper

Thanks for tryin, I appreciate it.

I downloaded the newest intel chipset from the dell website as well as the microsoft chipset driver from dell,
I've also run Dell Diagnostics on everything and passed,

not sure what to try next

I ran defragged and scanned my hard drive,

took out spyware using adaware and spybot, and am running only needed processes

Along with the low benchmark scores, I' am getting HORRIBLE video performance in games (like battlefield which used to run GREAT, but now is unplayably slow) 

Both are slowing down drastically for the same reason, I jus cant figure out why

I updated to the modified 56.72 from laptopvideo2go.com, but that only improved my score by 100 points or so, still getting close to 3000 marks

I did not overclock or use sideband because this card was working fine before that and I shouldnt need to use those features in order to get it to run at normal levels (once I fix the problem I'll mess with those values)

In the last month my motherboard went faulty (computer wouldnt turn on) and was replaced, the computer began to overheat, and so my fan was replaced,  i also updated the video card drivers, chipset drivers, and bios to what they are currently,

SOMETHING, or a combination, of those changes is wrecking my video card performance, but what?!

The dell diagnostics all passed, I wonder if it is a memory problem,
dell tech support wants me to format my HD and reinstall XP, but I have a feeling that wont work since it seems like a hardware issue, but i'll do it this weekend anyway,

PS. Higney, you have virtually the same system I do (except you have 1gig ram to my 512mb)
in 3DMark 2001, when you go to system info, what values do you get for everything?

PLEASE POST your info so I can compare, I jus typed each heading and copy/pasted the relevant values

Heres what I have, I'm looking for any discrepancy which might indicate my problem:

System Info Version: 2.2
Operating System:  Microsoft Windows XP
Processor:  Intel Pentium® 4 @ 3.06 GHz
Graphics Card:  GeForce FX Go5200
Total Physical Memory: 512 MB
Free Physical Memory: 260.91 MB
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
Motherboard Model:       

CPU Info - Intel Pentium 4
Manufacturer:  Intel
Family:   Pentium® 4
Internal Clock:  3.06 GHz
Internal Clock Maximum: 3.06 GHz
External Clock:  133 MHz
Socket Designation: Microprocessor
Type:   Central
Upgrade:   None
Capabilities:  MMX, CMov, RDTSC, SSE, SSE2
Version:   Model 2, Stepping 9
CPUID:   0x00000f29

L1 Cache:
Level:   1
Capacity:   8 KB
Type:   
Type Details:  
Error Correction Type: 
Associativity:  

L2 Cache:
Level:   2
Capacity:   512 KB
Type:   
Type Details:  
Error Correction Type: 
Associativity:  

DirectX info:
DirectX Version:  9.0
DirectDraw Version : 5.3.0000000.900
DirectShow Version: 6.05.01.0900

GeForce FX Go5200:
Description:  Primary Display Driver
Manufacturer:  NVIDIA
Name:   GeForce FX Go5200
Total Local Video Memory: 64 MB
Total Local Texture Memory: 64 MB
Total AGP Memory:  126 MB
Display Driver:  nv4_disp.dll
Display Driver Version: 6.14.10.5672
Driver WHQL Certified: No
Max Texture Width : 4096
Max Texture Height: 4096
Max User Clipping Planes: 6
Max Active Hardware Lights: 8
Max Texture Blending Stages: 8
Textures In Single Pass: 8
Vertex Shader Version: 1.1
Pixel Shader Version: 1.4
Max Vertex Blend Matrices: 0
Max Texture Coordinates: 8
Vendor ID:  0x10de
Device ID:  0x0324
Sub-System ID:  0x015f1028
Revision:   0xa1

Memory Info:
Total Physical Memory: 512 MB
Free Physical Memory: 260.91 MB
Total Pagefile Memory: 1.22 GB
Free Pagefile Memory: 1.02 GB

Memory Array:
Max Module Capacity: 2 GB
Location:   
Use:   
Supported Error D&C: 
Supported Speeds:  
Supported Types:  
Supported Voltages: 

256 MB DIMM:
Installed & Enabled Size: 256 MB
Form Factor:  DIMM
Frequency:  333 MHz
Slot:   DIMM_A

256 MB DIMM:
Installed & Enabled Size: 256 MB
Form Factor:  DIMM
Frequency:  333 MHz
Slot:   DIMM_B

AGP [AGP]
Number:   0
Designation:  AGP
Type:   AGP
Characteristics:  
Data Bus Width:  32
Details:   In Use, Long
Device Class:  Display Adapter
Device Name:  GeForce FX Go5200
Device Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Device Driver Date: 
Device Vendor ID:  0x10de
Device ID:  0x0324
Device Sub-System ID: 0x015f1028
Device Revision:  0xa1
IRQ:   11

AGP Capabilities:
Revision:   2.0
Rate:   1x, 2x, 4x (4x enabled)
Aperture Size:  128 MB
Sideband Addressing: supported (disabled)
Fast Write:  supported (enabled)

Operating Sysyem Info:
Operating System:  Microsoft Windows XP
Version:   5.1.2600
Service Pack:  Service Pack 1
Locale:   US
Desktop Width:  1400
Desktop Height:  1050
Desktop BPP:  32

Hard Disk Info:
Name:   HITACHI_DK23EB-40
Manufacturer:  (Standard disk drives)
Capacity:   37.26 GB
Model:   HITACHI_DK23EB-40
Interface Type:  IDE