Dissapointing Aquamark3 score

[wjgollatz]

I scored a 26.29 FPS on the free test that is commonly available. I am running with a Mobile AMD64 3400+. a Radeon 9700 128Mb gpu, and a Gig of RAM - on a Laptop with a SiS chipset. My GFX score seems to be low, -but my CPU score seems to be high - in fact I was beat by some 64Mb cards. My score is mixed right around alot of AMD64 3000+ and 3200+'s. (I did a compare to only AMD64 and ATI cards).

Its seems that my score when looking at some other similarly posted systenms, that I should be able to squeeze out at least another 2 FPS. It seems my ATI card is somehow holding me back.

What tweaking needs to be done? I believe I have down what I could with the ATI settings window to set for optimal performance.

 

[Matrix333]

did aquamark freeze at all during the benchmark?
if so, then it is greatly reducing your score

make sure FastWrites is turned OFF in your bios!!!

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: wjgollatz
I scored a 26.29 FPS on the free test that is commonly available. I am running with a Mobile AMD64 3400+. a Radeon 9700 128Mb gpu, and a Gig of RAM - on a Laptop with a SiS chipset. My GFX score seems to be low, -but my CPU score seems to be high - in fact I was beat by some 64Mb cards. My score is mixed right around alot of AMD64 3000+ and 3200+'s. (I did a compare to only AMD64 and ATI cards).

Its seems that my score when looking at some other similarly posted systenms, that I should be able to squeeze out at least another 2 FPS. It seems my ATI card is somehow holding me back.

What tweaking needs to be done? I believe I have down what I could with the ATI settings window to set for optimal performance.

Download Rage 3D Tweak and bump up your core and mem. I picked up about 3,000 more points in my Aquamark score. In otherwords, OC your card a bit.

Fern