Odd 3DMark Results -- Need help

[fbrdphreak]

Hey all,
I'm benchmarking some laptops for reviews and have gotten some confusing results. Here are the specs

IBM Thinkpad T43 -- 3DM03: 1911 total, 754 CPU
XP Pro
Pentium M 1.86GHz, 533MHz FSB
1x512MB PC2-4200 DDR2 533MHz
60GB 7200RPM
64MB MR X300

Fujitsu N3510 -- 3DM03: 2576, 777 CPU
XP Home
Pentium M 1.73GHz, 533MHz FSB
2x256MB PC2-3200 DDR2 400MHz
60GB 5400RPM
64MB MR X300

Now, I didn't disable the bajillion IBM proggies that load w/Windows. Both were defragged, rebooted between different benchies. Both have most recent respective drivers for all devices.

Do the extra proggies and single channel mem make THAT much of a diff in 3DM03??? That is a helluva difference IMO. BTW, I recently restored the T43 from its recovery partition, didn't hardly install anything else. The Fujitsu I have installed Office and a few proggies, but disabled anti-virus from loading since the IBM didn't have it.

Do I need to re-run on the T43? I can't think of any aspects I'm missing; thanks!

BTW, I do realize that the drivers are going to be optimized differently. That just seems like a helluva difference. And I wouldn't think the CPU scores to be off like that; DC shouldn't make a diff like that, should it?

 

[fbrdphreak]

bump for help!

 

[2Xtreme21]

Erm, I personally think you get the bad benchies because they are laptops with integrated x300's. :\ Do some searches for people with x300's and you probably won't find them getting very much better than you.

 

[darkswordsman17]

He's trying to point out that there's a large difference between the scores they are getting.

If you look, the second laptop, even though it has slower CPU/FSB it outscores the first one by almost a thousand points in 3DMark03, even though they have the same video.

Are you using the same drivers for both laptops (for the video I mean)? Also, you might try running Driver Cleaner on the first one and then reinstall the video driver.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Well, with laptops of course manufacturers supply their own drivers. Thus there is IBM's X300 driver and Fujitsu's X300 driver. I thought about using the Omega's or something consistent between the two to make sure its not an issue w/the benchmarking software, but for my final results I will of course need to use the respective manufacturer's drivers.

And as I mentioned the T43 was freshly restored. Maybe I will restore the Fujitsu, and ensure that I install the bench software from the same sources. I'm 99% sure they're the same version, but you never know.

Anyone else have any ideas? Thx!