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    First review of Alienware M17x with GTX 680M

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Cloudfire, Jun 21, 2012.

  1. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Thats messed up considering people can overclock the MSI and Clevo 680M.

    Oh well, just a matter of time before someone figures out what is locked. :)

    Nevermind :p

     
    Cloudfire, Jul 16, 2012
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  2. mrm2x

    mrm2x Notebook Consultant

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    would be nice to get this 680M bios hes using since its clearly not the same as i have (judging by its revision-number its an older version)...
     
    mrm2x, Jul 16, 2012
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  3. reechings

    reechings Notebook Evangelist

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    I thought that Hackness with his 680m and the overclocked 7970m's out there were breaking 7000?
     
    reechings, Jul 16, 2012
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  4. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Yeah, Hackness reached about 7250 in GPU score
     
    Cloudfire, Jul 16, 2012
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  5. reechings

    reechings Notebook Evangelist

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    That's kind of disappointing then, I was hoping the Alienware would take it up a notch. I hope the 4GB of memory doesn't somehow make a difference on his 680m.
     
    reechings, Jul 16, 2012
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  6. Shipwreck79

    Shipwreck79 Notebook Guru

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    Cloudfire, could you perhaps provide thisbios? Mine is 80.04.33.00.21. Also, do you have a 3D display?
     
    Shipwreck79, Jul 17, 2012
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  7. Quagmire LXIX

    Quagmire LXIX Have Laptop, Will Travel!

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    Now we're getting somewhere. A 3610qm and OC'd 680m on an R4. Is that your best 680m OC or are you still working on that?

    Here's my scores, would appreciate you running Heaven 3.0 at same settings and then run at own desired settings and I'll do yours.

    Grats on the new lappy!
     
    Quagmire LXIX, Jul 18, 2012
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  8. pau1ow

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    Guys, the bench in the picture has been achieved with a M17xR4 initially equipped with a GTX675M and upgraded to a Clevo GTX680M.

    This is the best score he could achieve but shy from the P7000+ achieved in the Clevos nb.

    I also upgraded my MSI GT70 with the Clevo GTX680M and it performs exactly the same way (P6750 @ 854/1150) so not sure yet why it "under performs" compared to the P150/P170EM's.
     
    pau1ow, Jul 18, 2012
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  9. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    I have a few theories but I'm going to test first before posting anything.
     
    widezu69, Jul 18, 2012
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  10. mrm2x

    mrm2x Notebook Consultant

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    if its a clevo 680M, why does it say "DELL" in the Subvendor-tab ?
     
    mrm2x, Jul 18, 2012
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  11. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    All cards do from my experience. I have used Clevo and Eurocom cards in Dell machines and all their sub ven ids have been Dell. And changing the vbios doesn't help either.
     
    widezu69, Jul 18, 2012
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  12. mrm2x

    mrm2x Notebook Consultant

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    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]

    at least those have their own subvendor-ids, strange...
     
    mrm2x, Jul 18, 2012
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  13. pau1ow

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    Nope look at my Clevo GTX680M GPU-Z in the MSI 1762:
    [​IMG]

    It's similar to the MSI 680M GPU-z you just posted - though it's a clevo card with a clevo vbios.
     
    pau1ow, Jul 18, 2012
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  14. reechings

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    Wow, why are those clock speeds so crazy on the first pic?
     
    reechings, Jul 18, 2012
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    so is it safe to say Alienware M17X GTX680M has the worst performance out of all that are currently available?
     
    funkybudda, Jul 18, 2012
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    For the moment yes you're correct.
     
    long2905, Jul 18, 2012
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  17. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    Let's hope some updated drivers fix that. :(

    Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 running Resurrection Remix
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 18, 2012
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  18. Quagmire LXIX

    Quagmire LXIX Have Laptop, Will Travel!

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    Well, Frankenstein machining aside, I'm seeing those Combined scores all over the place, but lower than 7970m, Physics scores that don't make sense when using the same cpu and Graphics scores that are always comfortably ahead of the 7970m. In general, what I'd expect, but AW/680m owners might be paddling harder for their rigs than AW/7970m owners as it seems to be a reversal of Clevo & AW designs.

    Someone needs to call Scooby and the gang, we have a real mystery on our hands :)
     
    Quagmire LXIX, Jul 18, 2012
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  19. mostlygeek

    mostlygeek Newbie

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    Just got a hold of my r4 with g80m, time to run up a few benchmarks :)

    Seems like early days, no drivers from Nvidia yet - only ones i could get to work were the (beta?) Dell driver packages.
     
    mostlygeek, Jul 21, 2012
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    Cloudfire, Jul 21, 2012
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  21. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    What were his clocks?
     
    widezu69, Jul 21, 2012
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    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    1037MHz/1287MHz :D
     
    Cloudfire, Jul 21, 2012
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    bigtonyman, Jul 21, 2012
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    Dang that's impressive.
     
    propeldragon, Jul 30, 2012
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  25. simbeane

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    I have just purchased a GTX 680M and installed on my M17X R4, I''m surprised that GPU Z shows the memory size is 4GB and clock speed is boostable to 750mhz. Dell''s GTX 680M is only 2gb memory and there is no boost. I''m so happy with my new card
    gpu Z.jpg
     
    simbeane, Dec 18, 2012
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  26. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    Looks like you got a clevo card. Those things can be overvolted and get some crazy scores!!! Congrats on the new card. :)
     
    bigtonyman, Dec 18, 2012
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    Sir, does it mean that getting a clevo card for upgrade is better than the dell gtx680m card?
     
    xanderwolfe, Dec 19, 2012
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  28. j95

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    Not anymore, you can get even results with the new Dell vbios mods.
     
    j95, Dec 19, 2012
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  29. simbeane

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    The card is shipped from Dell, how could it be Clevo card?
     
    simbeane, Dec 19, 2012
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    So, it doesn't even matter anymore which card to get?
    I heard that clevo cards has 4gb of vram, it's an advantage isn't it?
     
    xanderwolfe, Dec 19, 2012
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  31. j95

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    Vbios version 80.04.33.00.10 (Clevo) http://forum.notebookreview.com/att...irst-review-alienware-m17x-gtx-680m-gpu-z.jpg

    2GB of vram is more than enough besides it's cheaper through Dell US. (preferred account)
     
    j95, Dec 19, 2012
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  32. simbeane

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    Wow, Dell uses Clevo card, im surprised. I got the card from Dell for $645
     
    simbeane, Dec 19, 2012
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    Do you prefer the clevo card than the dell card?

    where did you get one? Went to dell's website haven't found any cards for sale, i'm in Singapore by the way, tried both singapore website and US website. :confused:
     
    xanderwolfe, Dec 19, 2012
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  34. simbeane

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    I live in sydney, I called Dell US and ordered from them. I ordered only one card but they shipped me 2 cards. Now I have an extra card I dont need. You wanna buy it? Im selling for $700 usd including heatsink, fan, thermal compound and ship to your place
     
    simbeane, Dec 20, 2012
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  35. Joe85

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    So, MSI afternurner doesnt show my clocks, it shows 0 on both clocks and i can adjust it.

    what are the safe O/C's at them moment?
     
    Joe85, Dec 23, 2012
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  36. j95

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    j95, Dec 23, 2012
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