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

Standby Widezu, I just shipped my spare 580m to the Revelator. He is coming for you!

 

Noooooooooo!

 

double nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

yayyyyyyy go revelatorrrrrrrrr

 

LOL. I have no chance against the serious benchers. First Nvidia card in years, so I'm having to relearn how they work from scratch. Be a while before real overclocking begins. First item on the agenda is learning how to disable this Optimus business. Happy with the change from the 6990M so far.

 

Get in touch if you want. Happy to help. Bloody laptop won't boot @4.5Ghz but managed 4.4 so we'll see...

Get the modded bios I recently posted in another thread when I was helping a guy who wanted to disable optimus as well. I'll walk you through some other stuff too if you want.

What you gonna do with that 6990m? Perhaps stick it in your M15x and sell the 6970m? That way you are still keeping the 6990m for warranty's sake

 

y wont boot on 4.5ghz? wat bluescreen code?

 

Don't remember. Blue screen was way too quick. Plus I'm using 111 amps current and 85w TDP so I can sustain 4+ Ghz on all core for the duration of any benchmark. What settings do you use? Mine is probably a bit more hardcore than yours

I see your ram is 1600. Is it really running at that speed? I need XMP Profile 2 to achieve it but then I can't OC my BCLK much higher than 102. With the Default profile set, my BCLK can go to 106 but my memory with then be 1333Mhz. Mind posting a CPU-z image of the main screen and the memory tab? Thanks!

 

what ever help we can give revelator...we will...


and yes, what is the blue screen code your getting widezu

 

How do I check the BSOD error code?

 

if it's not set in windows then use your camera phone to video the boot. then just play it back to see the code. you only need the first part of the bsod error code...
something like
101
116
024
124
9c

 

I think I'm going to be fond of this new 580M. Still know very little about the intricacies of the card or o/c options, but started benching a little anyway to see how the card would do. The first results were pretty decent, thanks largely to the modded vbios posted by Widezu69.

3dMark11: P4820 (2920xm/580M @ 865/980)

Reference: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P4820 3DMarks

 

No! You beat me! Aaaaah time to get my game on!

3DMark 11 can get through higher clocks as the benches are really short and the GPU isn't pegged for long enough to crash Gonna get you Rev. I will get that 5k.

 

I have no doubt that you will. I'm just grateful to finally have an R3 with a little lead in its pencil.

 

Why my GPU score no higher than yours?!?!?!?

Spoiler

 

I saw very little increase in scores above 850, relatively little above 840. Your awesome CPU score may be drawing a little power away from the 580M, but those results show how little influence the CPU has on Mark11 scores. You're at 44x, I was at stock settings (32x), but the Combined Test is nearly identical; in fact, mine was very slightly higher. Sound like I know what I'm talking about when I'm a complete noobie here. In due course, I'll try again with a little CPU o/c'ing, but for the moment, you have regained the crown. You could have waited an hour or two to let me wallow in the short-lived glory.

 

Ah sorry man. I was scared that you may crank out another benchmark using an overclocked CPU and some crazy cooling. I panicked. You did have me on edge though

You make a good point about negligible differences in both in terms of CPU influence and anything higher than 850 core. I'm pleased about a 10k CPU score though I play BF3 using 810/900(1800) all other games work fine on stock. I haven't played Metro or Crysis 2 on this GPU so they probably need high overclocks. Are you using the vbios from my the throttling fix ver.2 in my sig?

 

Excellent scores guys!

 

Struggling with Vantage at the moment, but thought I'd post a placeholder until I figure out how to get the 580M's clocks up without crashing. May need to reinstall Vantage. Anyway, more later (I hope).

3dMark Vantage -- P18,870 (2920xm/580M @ 800/925)



Now this was fun. The 580M/2920xm combo is formidable in 3dMark06. (PP was not disabled; double-checked Options menu and re-ran multiple times to confirm.) '06 may not have much relevance, but it's still fun, and DX9 is not completely dead.

3dMark06 -- 25,832 (2920xm/580M @ 825/950)

 

Good start. Vantage should be good for up to around 840/1000. what exactly is the problem?

 

Well, not sure. Once I go to 825/950, it crashes during the second test. And not where it usually does (near the very end), but odd places like entering the port for the fly-through of the ship. Dropped the 2920 down to 36x and still had the same problem. I've had these issues with Vantage before. Bound to be a conflict somewhere. Or, it could have just been tired. The Vantage runs came at the end of an extended session. Probably also wouldn't hurt to repaste.

These were with the new beta drivers; might be better off with the 285.62 set.

 

Alright. Keen to see you get to the root of the problem soon. '06 ain't my thing so you can have that one. We can fight for the other two.

 

Here's my bench results.

First screenie is with tess on the second is with tess disabled. I wasn't sure what everyone's results were with it on or off.

 

mine was crashes at 838

btw... all new alienware r4 is jus damn nice , so guys jus wait until next years april/may mb late yo.

 

Nice scores, Rizzo. Regardless of the merits of the Tess-on vs. Tess-off arguments, most of the 3dMark 11 scores with AMD cards reported in the forum are with Tess-off. No reason for you to penalize yourself by doing otherwise, and that's what you'll be comparing your card against. But, props for full disclosure.

 

confirm working 6970m on m17xR1 ! guys lolz
not expecting R1 to last this long?

it's a sapphire 6970m (174B-from clevo), here's the screenshot before & after install mobility mod driver for it.

The owner is Nyx, from our alienware club.



update :

the GPU's fan getting some issues on m17x R1 bios, the fan's speed is too slow to do any benchmark.
even HWinfo64 can't take control of the fan.

later, he trying to flash the bios of 6970m Sapphire vendor into Dell 1028 vendor ... then got blackout in his area while flashing the vbios. =.="
The flashing went bad even tho' he had the battery inside the laptop.
The bios is currupted after this, bricked both new GPU and his laptop.

 

So how does it run in the R1? Benchmarks?

 

Very interested in this too!

 

Ichime, were you ever able to get the 580M SLI working in the R2?

 

Stlll no luck. I still have the two cards though. I'm waiting for the guys at bios-mods to show signs of life so I could ask them to change a few things that might be causing SLi not to work.

 

but one does work fine right?

 

Yeah, but it requires HWmonitor for fan control.

 

so the heat sink isn't holding the heat down?

 

No the weird thing with the R2 is that is is compatible with many cards but suffer the full speed fan bug.

Eg: Dell 6970/6990m's work fine but force the fans on full whereas Clevo ones work perfectly. Newer Nvidia cards also force the fans on full regardless Dell or Clevo.

This is exactly the opposite in the M15x where eg the 460m GTX works perfectly but with fan issues in the M17x R2. The Dell 6970/6990m's work perfectly but Clevo ones cause the full speed fan bug. Very strange.

 

m17x r2 cannot shutdown/power off wen install "dell" 6970m and 6990m

 

here's mine stock
AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P3461 3DMarks

 

Heatsink contact and placement is fine, though the die takes up almost all of the contact area on the heatsink. As widezu alluded to, it's an issue with the r2's bios not fully recognizing the fan tables of the newer cards, so it will default at max fan speed.

I hope I could get sli to work before the new AMD cards come out...

 

New 6990m champ

 

860? That's crazy

Are you on stock voltage? Cause if you are, that chip you have is handpicked

 

Nice score, ravenite72. You and that machine sure do look familiar.

 

Lower clocks than competitors and higher score. That is a real nice card you got there. Looks like you still got some headroom, how far can it go?

 

WTG!

it can go higher actually.

indeed.

 

my 6990 won't go past 835...i wish i knew the secret

 

****LEADERBOARDS HAVE BEEN UPDATED****​

PM Me if I have missed something.

 

Here it is, should allow for at least 900MHz.

 

u missed out mine

Spoiler

 

My bad on that, got it updated

 

My latest on 11/16/11

 

Updated

Nice job on the benches guys. Those R3 Sandy Bridge XMs are really shining. Especially in 3DMark06.


Your going to make me volt mod my CPU to 1.4v, and throw on the dice pot Though I don't think I could quite hit 25K. If only I had the time...

@svl7 We had this conversation before, but it slips my mind. I'll have to research out PMs later, but what is the stock voltage with the bios +150mV of the XM CPU? I know I ran the 540M at 1.4v but don't and it helped a bit, but since that chip was being FSB OCed, the system was limited by the PLL voltage.

What voltage was your 6sec wPrime 32M run at? Was it on dice?

Is it possible to run the CPU at 1.5v with the hard mod? If so I may pull out my old 920XM (ES) and risk frying that. This way I won't be limited by the PLL, and instead, can use the CPU voltage to boost the CPU multiplier. May make it more feasable to hit 25K on the R2. To prevent the system shutdown, I may be able to run it on a single GPU, as Crossfire doesn't add to much, but I can deal with that and test that when the time comes.

 

hey dr650se...dont forget to tell them what their "er...ummm factory paste" is..

and which one cost more..