M17x 5870m CF Problems.

Hey guys, Ive been a long time reader of this forum and your posts and advice has always helped me out so far.

I reformated my M17x R2 the other day my graphics cards dont seem to be running right. Ive been doing 3d Mark Vantage bench's and I seem to be getting really low scores on comparision to well everyone. My Full system specs are below. Also i have the latest CCC and drivers and ive checked its running CF correctly and that stealth mode isnt on. still i have no idea. (i know gta iv is a crappy game port anyway but its running at less then 15fps.. even furmark was running around 15fps. i cant seem to get over 72 fps in 3d mark vantage.. any help??

Intel Core i7 x940 @ 2.13ghz
DDR3 8192MBytes Dual
Running A10 Bios



thanks in advance

 

Oh might i add when i say low Vantage scores im not getting over 12K

 

What is your Vantage GPU score. I would also run vantage GPU tests while having HWInfo64. This will tell you how how much load is on each GPU. Keep in mind a lot of scores around here are overclocked. Also double check stealth mode isn't on. Make sure everything is set to max performance in the power settings. Could be set to balanced mode, or power saver mode.

I think stock GPU score for Vantage/5870XF should be around 15K.

 

Make sure your cards temps are normal.

I was getting low scores too because my primary card kept over heating.

 

Ok checked stealth mode and it isnt on. also made sure all power settings were set to performance and high performance mode. still saw frames of 11-13 at most again 70-72.

scores are still poor but in my better results... any ideas? i noticed that my clocks run at 700 where as most others ive seen run at 800?? maybe i have room to overclock..

here are screens:

 

Your GPU's are running fine based on the GPU score, 14-15K is normal for stock, and it will fluxuate a bit. Vantage is demanding, so there are times when the FPS will be low. Thats normal. Like when Jane Nash falls in the water prior to getting on the boat. What I'm concerned about now is your CPU.


7500 for your CPU (940) is low. You need to run the other part of hwinfo64, not what your showing, but the temp sensors. I need to see temps to see if your CPU is throttling. Also let us see a screen shot of CPU-Z. Download it open it, take a screen shot of it. I think you may be running on less cores. It should say 4 cores, 8 threads on the bottom right. If not somethings amiss and we can go through that when we cross that bridge.

As for the 700MHz, that is the stock speed. A lot of people overclock to 800MHz. Heck I've even benched the 5870's at 1010MHz on the core. But that was cooled with dry ice, and upped voltage for fun.

Run vantage CPU with the temp sensors of hwinfo. all the other stuff isn't needed. Then give a screen shot of vantage cpu score with cpu-z and hwinfo.

 

Im downloading the full version of Vantage now so i can do individual cpu tests or can i give u a screen shot of my results from the one i did before?

 

A screen shot of CPU-Z would work much better, than we can tell if all cores are enabled.

 

Ok did tests... this is looking even worse....

 

Your getting serious throttling due to heat of the CPU. Once the CPU gets to 95*, the bios throttles the CPU. Thats what is dragging down your score. Other than that you have all 8 threads running so thats good.

In the bios, do you have the CPU Core Voltage set to +150mV? If so take that off, it's not needed at stock clocks. Then re-run the test. My best suggestion is to clean out the CPU fan with compressed air. It may be clogged and retaining heat, and preventing proper heat dissepation/transfer. I'm assuming your fan is running right?


If you want to get more in depth, you can repase the CPU. While you do that my suggestion is to run your CPU while its down to bare bones.

In order to get it to run like this you need to have the keyboard plugged in. Make sure the heatsink is screwed down on the CPU, than you can run wPrime v1.55. Run wPrime 1024 and while it's running, use a screw driver to adjust the heatsink scews, while monitoring temps of the CPU with throttle stop or real temp.

 

i dont have screw drivers or anything like that laying around atm so i cant change clean internally but it probably more then definantly needs it. To the best of my knowledge the fan is running. is their a way i can check this? and i dont beleive my bios has any of the extra settings enabled it does have turbo mode enabled but thats about it

 

Ok, I would go into the bios, should be riht one tab and down the line you should see a performance options. Enter that, and cpu voltage should be in there. The CPU voltage should be set to disabled or something like that. Don't need the +75mV or +150mV. Or at least the 150mV, the 75mV may be needed for stability.

HWInfo 64 has a fan option. You can test the fan this way or just feel in the center of the back of the notebook. if its blowing hot air the fan is running. But with HWInfo at the bottom of all the temps is a button "Logging Start" To the left of that is a little orange fan button. Click that and set the CPU fan to about 3900-4000 and hit start or enable or whatever. Should cause the fan to start spinning up. If that works your fan is working.

 

This is the computer geek equivilent of being a bada$$ ...the whole process. LOL. I will adjust my heatseat screws while my @#$%^ computer is running because I am AWESOME!!! LOL...I love this idea.

Edit: Btw +1 rep for being a PC bada$$.

 

so did epic clean. put restarted, also downloaded stealthmode indicator and found that even though i have mine turned off it was still on :S... anyway Good news is i just benched a stock 14K score which is about average from what i can read. still getting epic heat. i think im going to be a cooling docking station..



Thanks for all the help DR650

and Megatony i couldnt agree more haha. i would actually try it if i had the tools. im confident pulling my hardware apart but i feel a bit riske whilst running the pc.