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Lower than expected performance on GeForce 6150 (nForce 430)

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First post, by serjG

Posted on 2022-11-27, 20:07

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Hi! I've been getting lower than expected performance on my GeForce 6150 iGPU. While it is a fairly low end iGPU, I've only been getting 2361 points in 3DMark 2001 SE and 631 in 3DMark 03, while others got over 4000 in 01 and about 1000 in 03.
What is wrong?

Other specs:
AMD Athlon II X3 455 @ 3.3GHz
4GB DDR2 800MHz ram (dual channel unganged)
Asus M2NPV-MX motherboard (nForce 430 chipset)
Windows XP Pro SP3
Nvidia ForceWare 186.18 driver (also tried the latest drivers, same performance)

Reply 1 of 1, by bakemono

Posted on 2022-11-28, 14:26

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What do CPU-Z and GPU-Z say about it? There might be a hint as to what the problem is.

Also make sure your hypertransport speed is at the fastest supported setting. With nForce 430 I think it should be at 1000MHz.

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