FX 1700M Reviewed

On my configuration and standart settings get 3Dmark06 6118 points.
After overlocking to 600/900 get 3dmark 6990 points without overheat and downclock(Bios A01)

 

Ok cool so we know the downclock is from the bios A06 now we just have to whait for the new rev bios. I'm on A03 and all is perfect to.

 

Thanks all. I added the clock speeds of all the components to compare them to the 770. I will begin overclocking my card and benching it to see what kind of performance differences there are.

@ Weegie
I compared the images and I think that the heat pipes on mine are the same. I think the machine I compared mine to had a larger processor heat sink heat pipe because it had the X9300.
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I scaled the images and tried to fade the pictures together (don't mind the red circle), see what you think.

Thanks RAM, I didn't know Flickr let you host larger files.

 

Think the issues will be ironed out soon. Just a matter of a BIOS update. "funny" to see it's almost exactly the same for everyone, mine hits 105c very fast with crysis running on 1680x1050 everything medium and, as described, stays there for a couple of minutes 'till it drops to nearly idle temps...with fans staying at full speed.

btw....did i mention Dell's replacing my whole system?

 

Aren't you happy LPTP? They are capturing mine as well, but I'm contributing to the lock-up issue more than the heat issue (my GPU never went above 54.4c during Crysis WH). I am afraid, however, that my next GPU might have the heat issues but no lockup issues.

Lol...

 

Very happy!! Better sooner than later, the lockup issue seems a bit more serious to me actually, i trust the heat thing will be solved but no idea about the lockup. Maybe try too not strip vista and xp to the bare minimum next time?? kidding

Still, even with all this i would still, as you have done, recommend this laptop to anyone really.

 

It occured before on Dells default OS before I did nLite/vLite. Plus, when it does lockup, the keyboard backlit flickers like a disco light if you hold fn + right arrow...I don't think a lite version of XP is supposed to have major hardware messups like that lol.

 

True...though that keyboard flicker sounds like a cool effect!! anyway to get that intentionally

 

I couldn't really make it out in the faded together image,but comparing the picture of yours and mine [see pic attachment]I see a couple of variations,my cpu heatpipe is flattened more,both heatsinks are different versions looking at the casting/lettering,your GPU heatpipe looks bigger/rounder and more crammed in between the fan and hard drive,your fan has a bigger circular opening,and as you mentioned the black [alloy?] plate that must be to try and rid more GPU heat by way of,through the actual fan housing.

Are you going to try AS5,did mine when I first received it and it dropped the max temps a few C's,[might work even better on yours given its hotter]the factory application wasn't the best as they use a pretty humongous dollop of thermal paste given how much had oozed out the sides....also doesn't seem a particularly good quality sort of thermal paste TBH.

What sort of cpu temps do get with a 2.8 ?

Does your fan run at 3000/4000/5000 rpm steps ?

 

Wow, I didn't look at the fan, mine defiantly has a larger opening. And yes it runs at 3000-4000-5000 intervals. And it is harder to tell because the heat pipes are a 3D object and we're looking from a 2D profile, so who really knows (Dell I guess).

Did you replace the thermal compound? If so did you see any temperature differences? I was thinking of replacing mine because when nTune claims the GPU is at 105 C and I touch the actual heat sink, it's warm but not a radiating sun hot like 105 should be.

I wasn't going to try AS5.