Ok, this is very interesting.. I just rebooted the laptop and decided to run a CSS bench. Here are my PC specs
Dell iXPS
3.4GHz Extreme Edition
1gb of ram
60gb 7,200 rpm
Mobility 9800 Omega 4.12
Ok, ran the tests at stock clocks 350/300, I didn't open any overclocking utility for this bench.
Tested at:
Models-High
Textures-High
AA is set to none
AF is set to 2X
Shader detail-Low
Shadow Detail-Low
Water-Simple Reflections
Average FPS of 86.8
Now I did the same test but used ATI Tool to Change the clocks to 450/400
Average FPS of 80.57
You would think the scores would go way up, but instead they went down.
EDIT: Just rebooted and used Radlinker instead of ATI Tool to over clock. I set the clocks to 452/398 and ran the CSS bench again
Average FPS of
102.65 on the same in game settings as above...
Ran the bench again using ATI Tool, first time I got 96fps, the second run (right after first) was 86fps.
-I'm going to reboot and run the tests again using the stock clocks.
-Ok, all these average FPS scores were done one after another without quitting the program
-88FPS
-83FPS
-72FPS
-75FPS
-Ran the test again using Radlinker. I set the clocks to 450/400. Tests were ran right after each other
-95.97
-78.60
-74.40
Seems to be that the card isn't overclocking.
-Ran the test using ATI Tool now. I again set the clocks to 450/400. Tests were ran right after each other
-91.95
-72.87
-74.60
Again a massive framerate drop on the second run.
Tell us what you think about this W1zzard...... oh and yes the lappy is plugged in