*OFFICIAL* Alienware 17 and M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 4

Jane Nash... Miss Vantage

and running at 100fps... yea

 

My GF hates Jane Nash at this point haha (and stop lying you aint getting 100 FPS DR650SE! - I'd believe 82 )

 

When She runs, I think it's around 100FPS, ould be wrong, tonight I get out the camera and snap a photo of it. I'm not talking average, just where she's running toward the camera. But yea, my wife hates her too

 

only need to know what one thing....what is the number of frames when she jumps from the platform to the box over the water.(right when she lands)
and running along the platform will produce 100+ fps as well...

 

Around 28. Give or take one frame, thats the low point in the bench.

 

so that's 2800 right?
in your case...to find out how well the card will do in that machine... run vantage using only cpu's 1/2/3/4 and then try just 1/2. this should give you the juice you need to see what they can do...without the psu jumping in the way. and only run gt 1/2

 

Oh, wait, I misread your post. Thought you were talking about when the box lands in the water, prior to boarding the boat for the escape.

Are you saying turning hyperthreading off? Or disabling cores 2,3 and only running on cores 0,1?

 

you can turn it off or just set it in task manager to see. im a bit curious if this will make any difference. test one is core and test 2 is mem. 800/1100 should be do able right out the gate. gpu test can really run off of one core. and have virtually no effect on gpu scores.

 

Ok, I may play with it a bit. Run it on one core, stock TDP. Wonder if I ran it at something like 35W TDP how it would affect it. Probably drop the score a little. What would be nice is if I could touch the keyboard during the test. Then set throttle stop to switch profiles with a leystroke and switch profiles as the CPU tests begin to load. That would be ideal.

 

now that might drop the score...i forget with first gen i7 mobiles

 

Gave it another try before the last score is updated and I am quite contented with it ( especially the Vantage Score )




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Dannyboy, are you using throttle stop and flashing your vbios to 1.15v?

 

Yes, I am using Throttle Stop , but the vbios is only at 1.051 ( enough for me to finish the benchmark )

 

Use RBE bios editor and change the 3d voltage to 1.15. you need to type it in. Then you can easily hit 900/1200. I benched my 5870s at 1010/1310.

 

Thanks for the advice , I know that the stock voltage at 1.05 can only get me so far. That's why I plan to use TRIXX to increase the voltage as you say , BTW it's a software OC so that I can't brick my VGAs . Guess I'll give it another try before going to sleep :|

 

Nice. And scook would be the QX9300 expert. He got it up to 4.333ghz. Not stable of course but pretty impressive. And benched vantage at 4.16ghz. Get some rest

 

yes under normal circumstances like putting a laptop in the fridge. lool

 

Is there anyway to overvolt the 6990? when I tried it it wouldn't go past idle clocks

 

***LEADER BOARDS UPDATE***
Great job Kenny27 on taking the top R2/Overall Vantage and 3DMark11 slots! Great job in being the first person in a long time to hit the 3DMark06 leaderboard as well.

Dannyboy2609 - Great job on the innovation of getting 5870's operational in the R1. Nice job taking the Top R1 Vantage spot, and forcing the addition of a new catagory to the R1 leaderboards - 3DMrk11. Hopefully this will renew some competition among loyal R1 owners.

@kenny - I don't believe so, that was the downfall (in my opinion) of the new 6900 series cards. Probably since they were so power hungry to begin with. Thats what I loved about the 5870s. With an overvolt, I was able to achieve over a 40%+ overclock from stock. 1.05v 700MHz/900MHz -> 1.15v 1010MHz/1310MHz. Of course dry ice helped me push past 950MHz/1250MHz.

 

I was semi stable at 4.33 GHz. It was not passing any long tests or 3DMark06. 4.16 could bench everything I threw at it but suffered from the ruined memory bandwidth in most tests - I saw alot of tests do barely better at 4.16 GHz compared to 3.33 GHz

 

God Bless You Granny DR650SE





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Get that CPU colder!

 

Ditto! I would have loved to bench the QX9300 on dice.

And get those GPU clocks higher! 915/1230

 

I think that voltage was the problem more than temps on the QX9300. Because 4.33 would just crash at 1.5V which was all I could give it. I ran at 4.16 with 1.5V and temps were not out of control. I think I saw 65c max in the freezer and that was without fan control. If HWInfo32 fan control works it can get much colder

 

Yea, very true. Probably wouldn't have made much difference. The thing I like about using dice, is that it keeps the components cold enough, that the fans never spin. Therefore, when dealing with a 240w adaptor, it means that you free up a few watts for more GPU headroom. Though I'm not so sure I'll put the 6990's on dice, at least not until I get some more gummy eraser to be sure no condensation can get through. I think that may have been what killed a set of my 5870's

 

I locked myself in a wine cellar for the whole 3 hours to achieve those score ( at about 12 Degrees , i thinks ) and these CPU temp


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That's why I don't dare push it higher . What you're asking me is not only to kill my system , but to kill its owner as well . And I think the scook is right , it is the thermal design power that locks out the Qx9300 , not the tempature. Come to think of it , why is the Qx9300 has a TDP of 45W but , the 920Xm's is 55W , is it a little bit unfair ?

Notice I've just killed all the R3 with my R1 =))

 

The extremes of the Core 2 generation on the desktop were lower wattage as well. It is just not as power hungry an architecture. Keep in mind that there is no memory controller included in that TDP number. The higher IPC of Nehalem comes from a new core design that uses more transistors leading to higher power use. And those 55W chips are regularly being pushed north of 100W when overclocked haha

Is that 12f or 12c? Because your temps are definitely too high. Have you repasted the CPU?

 

It is 12 C , I chose the warmest place in the cellar . Is the temp too high ? . Well , I didn't repaste the CPU ever since I had bought the system ( almost year now )

 

Funny you mention that scook, lastnight I was benching and my CPU I had pulling just over 112w.

Also Dannyboy, you might want to readjust the screws for your CPU heatsink while running wPrime 1024 and monitor temps. Having the screws to tight can sometimes warp the heatsink the slightest bit, giving it a concave shape and you lose the max surface area on the CPU die, which in turn reduces heat transfer.

But as scook said, your temps are too high. A repase would be good to do.

 

I would repaste and get colder. 12c aint that cold.....at least not as far as "extreme" cooling goes hehe.

My chest freezer was about 0f which is about -18c ambient. So I am starting out 30c colder than you right off the bat.

I also had decent results benching on my front porch in the winter when it was about 10-15f outside.

 

Consider I'm living in a tropical country , that could be a culture shock man =))

 

That will complicate the outside scenario

I was shovelling my driveway between runs haha - had snow blowing around the laptop while it was running

In that case, I recommend trying my setup

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...enchmark-thread-part-3-a-363.html#post6440029

 

i have looked through this thread for abit but getting tired of looking for m17x r3 i7 2630qm and 460m benchmarks. I am only seeing r3 refresh.

 

The 460m unfortunately isnt that great anymore, so its not relevant for benching. Nowadays its 580, 6970 and 6990's.

 

Anything is relevant for benching. It is not about being the absolute best but rather the best for your hardware.

 

Yep, there are still guys squeezing the P4 chips

 

Until this bulldozer overclock that AMD is so proud of, a P4 was the fastest CPU in the world (by clock speed)

 

I OC'd my AMD Athlon 64 3200+ to 2.5ghz That's a whole 25% increase from the stock 2.0ghz LOLZZZZZ.

 

I saw those 7+Ghz :O :O

 

and i had a very lucky 1700+ XP that would run @2.6 Ghz 1Ghz more than stock, watercooled

 

So what GPU drivers is everyone using. I just realized lastnight that I was benching on Catalyst 11.6 Debating on whether or not to upgrade. Has there been any improvement with newer drivers from 11.6? Might try and get some more benching done this weekend.

 

The scores in my sig are with 11.5. Catalyst 11.6 improved Vantage in more than 100 points, 3dMark11 in 9 points. 11.8 gave me no significant imrovement in bechmarks, 11.9 gave me nothing in Vantage, but in 3dMark 11 I got 40 points boost and I can say 11.9 is the best in games performing driver at the moment. At least on my system

 

7GHz Pentium? - Softpedia

??? That thing?

 

Hmm, might be worth it to upgrade to 11.9. Maybe that will enable me to hit my goal. I'll have to check it out this weekend.

 

for me is more important performance in games but the first thing I do after installing a new driver is running Vantage and 3d11
11.9 is definitely worth trying for both benching and gaming

 

No, this:
http://www.overclock.net/general-processor-discussions/1082747-new-6ghz-oc-club.html

 

dang. wish my computers could get that high.

 

try the new drivers, but always remember to start with ccc settings at default...bench a few times..then start changing things.

doesn't mean i want one in my main rig...lol

APPLICATION SCORE HARDWARE FREQUENCY USER TP WR GL HW CP
CPU Frequency 8429.38 mhz FX-8150 8429.4 macci 2pts 0pts 0pts 2pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8308.94 mhz Celeron LGA775 352 8308.9 TaPaKaH 157.3pts 0pts 125.9pts 31.4pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8213.3 mhz Celeron LGA775 356 8213.3 Brian y. 114.6pts 0pts 94.4pts 20.2pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8211 mhz Celeron LGA775 352 8211 TaPaKaH 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8203.21 mhz Celeron LGA775 356 8203.2 Brian y. 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8199.5 mhz Celeron LGA775 347 8199.5 TiN 109.2pts 0pts 73.4pts 35.8pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8182.7 mhz Celeron LGA775 356 8182.7 AndreYang 78.7pts 0pts 62.9pts 15.8pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8179.89 mhz Pentium 4 631 8179.9 ThuG OC Team Italy 100.4pts 0pts 60.8pts 39.6pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8139.95 mhz Celeron LGA775 352 8140 TaPaKaH 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8127.5 mhz Celeron LGA775 356 8127.5 Nick.ua 72.3pts 0pts 59.2pts 13.1pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8116.19 mhz Celeron LGA775 352 8116.2 Blind 82.4pts 0pts 57.6pts 24.8pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8114.02 mhz Celeron LGA775 356 8114 Brian y. 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8113.22 mhz Celeron LGA775 347 8113 Nordling 84.2pts 0pts 55.9pts 28.3pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8088.7 mhz Celeron LGA775 352 8088.7 K404 75pts 0pts 54.3pts 20.7pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8079.9 mhz Celeron LGA775 347 8079.9 hey 76.2pts 0pts 52.6pts 23.6pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8072 mhz Celeron LGA775 356 8072 Nick.ua 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8067.65 mhz Celeron LGA775 356 8067.6 TaPaKaH 11.4pts 0pts 0pts 11.4pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8047.36 mhz Celeron LGA775 352 8047.4 Smoke 69.1pts 0pts 51pts 18.1pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8040 mhz Pentium 4 631 8040 MaJ0r 80.7pts 0pts 49.3pts 31.4pts 0pts
CPU Frequency 8037.83 mhz Celeron LGA775 352 8037.8 Deux 64.1pts 0pts 47.7pts 16.4pts 0pts

 

here is my latest vantage run.

 

Great run, Inap. Deep cooling?