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

yes exactly. The bottleneck is in the vid card. The 3610 is plenty for gaming. All a more powerful cpu will do is get you closer to 7K in 3dmark11

 

GTX680m ETA june/july
hope marketing wont giv me fake news. haha

 

can't wait to see how it compares to the 7970m

 

ati will counter that 680M with an 7990M if it's needed

 

Then we might see a 685M...endless cycle.

 

true but last few releases ati was one little step ahead.

 

Using history as precedence, what you will see is a nvidia 775m which would be nothing more than a 680 rebadge, and Dell will charge $150 more for the nvidia 775m compared to the AMD 8970

 

yeah nvidia is good in sticker slapping "upgrades"

 

Haha two generation of rebadging of the rebadging
Still they got nice technology...

 

yeah you try that and it's called fraud

 

always goes round and round.... badger badger badger!

 

Just ran 3DMark 11 on my new drivers and got a P3888. CPU FSB was overclocked to 104MHz and my GPU was overclocked as high as it could go. What do you guys think?

Link: http://i45.tinypic.com/27x4j86.jpg

 

real good for a 6970. OC it!

 

just added vantage to my benchmarks, scored this

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,Alienware M17xR4 score: P24049 3DMarks

 

HaloGod2012, great run! So close to 25k for GPU)

 

Quite the OC you got going on.

Surprised it's stable.

 

installed 12.5, new scores at 1010/1660
i hit over 25k gpu score in vantage
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,Alienware M17xR4 score: P24280 3DMarks

3dmark11: p6855

 

nice, one lil step closer to breaking 7k

 

Dont be jelous guys, but the real Dell 7970M looks better

 

Looks great, but how about a screenshot that's large enough to see and read. First legitimate 7K+ from the 7970M that I've seen. Share it.

 

niiice good job

 

Here you go, all credits to uQwE, I asked him about the CCC settings, according to him it's all stock, untouched after the driver installation.

Impressive card...

 

i just broke 6900 in 3dmark, with a much lower clocked core and much higher memory clocks, AND a lower cpu clock
my gpu voltage is 1075v

 

I got the same, I found it very hard to reach higher scores with other components clocked high as well. It seems that the 7970m has a power management thing because as soon as I reached a certain point, any higher resulted in lower scores.

 

Nice...7K. Good job uQwE!! i wonder what his core voltage was at?

his 7970m is a great card

 

he mentioned 1.1v in the respective thread

Sent from my GT-I9001 using Tapatalk 2

 

i want to take mine to 1.1v now and beat that score, i know i could with my card, but is it worth me messing with it lol, hmmm...

 

There is a new modded 12.6 driver compatible with 7970M from Guru3D. This one is newer than the previous 12.6.
AMD Catalyst 12.x (8.980.0 June 4) Unofficial BETA download from Guru3D.com

Below are a few runs I did with both drivers 12.5 and 12.6.

Besides manually setting fans to max via HWinfo and closing off windows gadgets and object dock, everything else is keep as is. I didn't use throttlestop.

CPU 40-39-37-37. GPU 950-1400

12.5


AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P23030 3DMarks


AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P6317 3DMarks



12.6


AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P23104 3DMarks


AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P6232 3DMarks


AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P6231 3DMarks

I did 2 3Dmark 11 benchmarks with 12.6 since I noticed the score is lower.

So yeah for me vantage get better score while 11 not so much.

 

:,( if i only knew how to update these weird drivers properly

 

follow slick's advice: Fn+F7 to dedicated GPU then install the driver I just posted above.

 

Just iphone screen capped it for future reference when i get my r4 hopefully i dont mess up

 

Good job with the Benches Long! I too noticed my scores dropped....so back to the 12.5 beta 7900 mod driver

 

Any word on a BETTER driver coming out soon? Isn't it about time an optimized and official driver that supports the 7970M came out?

 

Hear that!

On windows I still just live with the dell driver, never could get any of slickdude's linked drivers to work. Under linux, I have the AMD driver installed but the displays all have an "AMD unsupported hardware" watermark in the bottom right corner (even when the display goes to sleep, which is weird...). But my m17x/7970m is great for work, I can drive 2x 24" 1200p external displays with it and am still working on getting the 3rd using VGA (no idea why that did not work yet).

 

if you are on a m17x R4, i'd stick with the dell driver too...at least for now. if you want to install the modded drivers posted, you should first FN+F7, go to the dedicated GPU, then the drivers will install. but you lose Enduro and the use of the integrated GPu if you do that.

 

Yeah, its an R4 and I have lost the Enduro anyway, I dual boot and was totally unable to get the AMD linux driver without the FnF7 trick, kept saying there was no AMD card.
But that was no major lost anyway as for me Enduro was quite broken in windows. I could not get Civ5 to launch on the AMD and it would just go a little and then crash hard.

(and yeah, I realized your guide was for an R3 when I went to flash the bios, good thing it would not let me, I was being rather stupid that day).

 

Whoa!! 6 days with no contributions? Bump - maybe this will be inspiring. Bench, bench, bench.

 

OMG thats awesome man!!!how many fps it drops from recording???

 

That's serious horsepower! Thanks for sharing Mr Fox!

 

Mr. Fox, what's your score with 3dMark Extreme?

 

Does anyone remember how much 2630QM scored in Vantage and 11? just the cpu, not the overall score.

 

In Vantage it scored around 18k

 

Anyone had their MSI Afterburner slides randomly become smaller? As in, less room to increase?

See my post (#74) here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...s/669344-7970m-benchmark-results-only-8.html#

to see what I mean.

 

Around 15-20% when recording screen output at full frame 1080p.

You're welcome, bro. Would be even more serious if and when AMD releases a decent driver for it.

I haven't run that yet. Will have to give it a run to see.

Edit: X3567 3DMarks

 

Guys! You can use the modded and/or beta drivers with enduro too. After install i switched back with Fn+F7, then enduro is working flawlessly. Basic use is integrated GPU, and you can set up the switchable graphics page in CCC. In this way i get more than 5hrs!!! of battery life, and when i'm plugged and playing games are running on the 7970m automaticly. Try it out!

 

Can you be more specific? This is great news if you are on the m17xr4 with the 7970m and have non-dell drivers, but I tried a bunch (from the r3 thread by slickdude) and never got any of them to take. I think it was 12.4/5/6 I tried.

Can you give a link?

 

Guys, i need your help. I´ve a sager with 7970m and I am experiencing overheating problems.

My seller replaced the thermal paste, but the temperature stays at 90 degrees celsius, and they claim that this is the standard temperature.
They say there's nothing wrong.

I've seen in forums that the normal temperature at full load is between 70-75

To make a refund, they require me to prove that the 7970m does not reach 90 degrees running Furmark.

Can someone please run Furmark at 7970m and take a printscreen after 5 minutes of test (resolution 1920x1080, stock clocks)?

Thanks a lot!!

 

My Alienware never runs higher than 67oC on 1080p Furmark, dude.

 

Sure!
I use this driver from SlickDude80's guide and it works fine.

 

Could you please take a screenshot after 5 minutes-test?
Thanks!