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

dam guys amazing stuff. wished i had more time to bench and hang around

 

Where have you been lately, Inap?

 

just been busy with work and renovating the house. wife is prego too, so need to make additional room. plus lappy is on the fritz too, got my replacement 6990 but system won't boot with it. no time to fix it atm, so i'm just using the igp for now.

 

Sounds like a lot of life changes going on out West. Congratulations on the newest addition to a growing family. Sorry to hear about your laptop troubles. Drop in when you can and keep us posted.

 

Made a thread about GPU revisions for next year

 

hmm.. no any new record breaker??

 

Can anyone link me to the M17X R1 RAID drivers (I thin nforce or intel???). I can't even find R1 threads anymore.

 

Not on my side for now I can't go further with my 2820qm. I should order a 2920xm to keep playing with you guys.

18.2 K on 3dmark vantage
22.3 K on '06
4615 on '11.

Anyone tried Shirley's ES cpu (the tdp is @ 45W and not 55) Otherwise I'll grab it from laptop monkey. Any other solution ?

 

Can anyone here help with my driver update problem?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/628009-driver-updates-fail-amd-cant-update.html (Currently sitting on VGA drivers and can't do a thing )

 

did you try the have disk method?

 

What's that again? Sounds so familiar.. yet can't place it.

 

Yup the have disk method.
You remember Jubbing when you go into device manager and click on the GPUs to update the drivers. You choose the have disk method from in there and then manually choose a driver location to install GPU drivers.

Cheers.

 

Heh, I knew it sounded familiar.. being as that was what I was trying to do

All good now, thanks to Joker got it working. Seems that 1 driver was stopping the other driver from working (or something) and that resulted in it not being able to detect the new drivers. Still, all good now.

Good news is that in MW3, single player I used to have 35-45 fps, and now I have 70 - 90! What a HUGE boost... I've been missing out

 

Now run some Vantage on your old settings for comparison

 

Oh wow nice man! That is like double the FPS right there lol!
Yeh what DR said lol ahahaaha lets see some Bench figures ahahah!

Cheers.

 

dam looks like i need some major upgrades to get on the leader boards, dam you guys, hahahah

 

Yeah inap. Where's your game brother? BTW Congrats on the new baby.

 

yes, what reborn says...

glad you got that working! double the fps is always a nice thing.

yes, what these two have said.

well, not really major...just one...cpu...

 

thanks widezu!!!

@john kiss

prolly need a 580m too if i really want that top spot. but sadly this will not happen, since i'm officially going to get an M18x now.

 

this is true.
but the m18 is a nice upgrade....when working.

 

Spoiler

Christ, according to Guru3D.com, a desktop GTX 480 at stock only hits 17.5k for the GPU...

Your mobile overclocked GPU is faster than a stock desktop GTX 480. Now THAT is impressive!

 

Nice news !
Enjoy

 

Spoiler

why is my 920xm having a low score on basic 1.1 vantage?..its all at stock speed's just has a 5% oc from bios

 

The thing is, the M17x R2 has increased multipliers up to 25x on all cores however the TDP/TDC is still on 62/62 so you need throttlestop to crank those higher.

 

what would be a good setting for it at stock speeds on throttlestop?

 

Open up throtlestop, click TPL and set it to 90/80 maybe. Been a long time since I worked with 1st Gen i7's. Play around, you can also change the multipliers through TRL.

 

Also depends on heat how far you can OC the CPU. If your heatsink is poorly seated you won't be able to increase the TDP as far.

Plus your score is low because everyone who submits scores to futuremark submits overclocked scores. And the little bit between your score and the and the target score is negligible.

 

Did someone say something about record...?

Spoiler

 

you still ain't beat me yet. so no world record.....yet.

hey wide, have you ran this program yet?

 

hahahah +1 John

Looks like another program to install on my benching SSD

 

i like it over here. the guys are all down to earth over here. asus forums are a bit hostel at times...lol

a forum member found that little program. i like it because it's based off of a single gpu so everyone has a fair chance.

 

Haha cool. Also mine still counts as a record as it is top in the M17x R3 so *meh* (spits out tongue at you like a child )

 

but of course!
im just rattling the cages over here..

 

Hmm, that means I can go balls to the wall on that and not worry about PSU trip

 

exactly...

 

hahaha... hmm i might use the "special" weapon to showing off here, but too bad still cannot disclosed.

but yea, wat u guys idea to replace/change for m17x next upgrade? size? screen? design? dual gc?

 

What special weapon...?

 

Hi guys,

does anymone can help me on cpus ?
I'm looking to buy an XM 2920/2960 cpu atm, but too expensive for QS version... is is worth waiting next gen ivy bridge ? Seems that they are quite overpowered

 

We don't even know if Ivy Bridge will be compatible with our mobos

 

I've heard rumor about socket 988, this should be good, no ?

 

They will be if Dell releases a bios for it - Intel said Ivy bridge will be backwards compatible with a bios update.

Kinda doubt it because Dell would rather just make an M17x R4 for more $$$

Also you can get 2920xm qs for ~ 398 pound / 2960xm oem for 628 pound; got my 2860qm oem for 381 pound

 

From which seller ? Tried laptopmonkey but it's 488 pound ! I missed Shirley's cpu @ $300 ... quite interested in your anwser.

 

It used to be £398 a few days ago from laptopmonkey. Either submit a best offer or just PM him on eBay, he won't bite

I went for a 2860QM OEM from some pc-best-guy in Taiwan, great service and haggled down £60, worth submitting an offer, etc

 

Yes you are right but now it's £488
Will try to PM him again but he doesn't anwer to my offer..

 

Ivy Bridge btw has been confirmed for March with an Intel Employee/Rep whom I met about 10 days ago. And then confirmed by a Asus Rep whom I also met the day after. They said it might not be compatible with older devices than 1 year but depends on the Manufacturer (Dell, HP, etc). (Can't say who though.. Techin5 secrets )

As for testing.. just when I thought I was about to rock out a good score the whole computer froze up. Trial run on stock settings rocked on 16k or something. This was with a portable aircon blowing air right into the fans, the battery out, and the house aircon turned on as well. Sad part was that the OC figures were lower than last time when I hit 19k last year. Guess ol' beasty isn't faring as well as it used to

 

Thanks for sharing .
So if i understand right, waiting for ivy bridge isn't a good idea for now. I should concentrate on Sandy bridge xm cpu's.

 

yeah... ivy bridge rock!! can u imaging ivy + nvdia gtx 6xx / ati hd7xxx

 

Hm yes you're right that might be the perfect time to upgrade my damn M17x which froze on my twice today after quitting BF3. 4Gb or RAM isn't cutting it it seems.

 

I always thought 4Go were more than enought for nearly everything ?
Tested different benchies with 4/8/16 Go not even a point of difference.
You computer is working fine, BF3 is THE problem. I keep playing sevenral hours before the patch, and now I can't play anymore

 

got my highest vantage gpu score of 13331 with the 11.12 dec beta drivers.

stock clocks.