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

you need pictures as proof it is you.
Read the first/second post.

 

I know I'm late to this party but I had 3DMark 11 downloaded for a while, just didn't have the time to run it

With a Core i7 3740QM and 680m, both completely stock, I got a score of P6480.

This is with the most recent WHQL nvidia drivers.

 

See my last comment

 

I ran firestrike and scored only 3800ish WITH OC. Why is that? I have a 680m as well. Is it because I use older drivers?

 

depending on how old they actually are, that could really be the culprit

 

What CPU do you have in it

 

if its really cuz of the cpu it should be waaay slower than the slowest quad (like a dualcore), since firestrike is pretty cpu-independent.

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photo, is that a desktop CPU you use?

I just ran 3d mark 11 on my R4 and got p2800 or something on the basic version, thats with unapproved new drivers.

not so impressive.

 

Did you even look at the specs and the pictures???...920xm and 940xm cpu's are identified as desktop processors.
Why would i post desktop numbers on a notebook forum.....

p2800 is indeed a horrible score for any high end laptop...
Good luck with your benchmarks.

 

i will have to do some investigation soon.

so 3d mark used my intel graphics, .

can someone fill me in as i am way behind the times with this stuff, can you not force 3d mark to use the gpu...

 

This is called Thread hijack, start a seperate thread.
Only numbers are posted here.

 

numbers from mobile processors preferably at that.

 

or from desktop cpus in mobile systems

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putting a desktop CPU into a mobile platform is impossible, its news to me, two entirely different things.

this is a thread on the alienware laptops, there is a different forum, several i am sure for desktop variants.

 

uve never heard of that before? mkay...... more than enough laptops out there supporting desktop cpus mate the m17X-R4 is not one of them, of course, but that was never my statement

 

my scores, i finally broke into the 8000+ last night... result!!!
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3740QM Processor,Alienware M17xR4 score: P8049 3DMarks

 

This card seriously overclocks like crazy, i think i may be in the top 5 or higher for scores with my set up if im lucky, just pulled out a pretty impressive score tonight NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3740QM Processor,Alienware M17xR4 score: P8234 3DMarks

 

just checked and im number 4 with the 2gb card iv gotta boost my cpu score to try and bump up to top 3 jeez some of these clocks are crazy with the 4gb card

 

This is just crazy! Are you using an over volted bios?
What are yuor max temps?

 

Okay, so this thread has somewhat blown me away.

I have a 3 year old M17xR2. I got it with a single 4870, 4gb of ram, etc. I upgraded it to 8gb almost immiediately (for a fraction of the price dell wanted for 8gb), and later got a 2nd 4870 and went crossfire, and more recently got an SSD, too.

I was looking at maybe getting a cheap 5870 and via some googling I found this page and was blown away when I found this thread and discovered I can put in a 6970 or 6990.

There's plenty of these cards on ebay. So can I seriously just buy one of the 6970M's or 6990M's listed and - after swapping the heatsink over to the new card - fire it up in my aging M17xR2? :O !!!!

Is it really that simple? Am I missing something here? Tell me before I hit buy it now on some ebay auctions!

Also how much of a performance boost should I expect going from a 4870 (crossfire or single) to 6970 or 6990?

 

why not go all out and put a 7970M into ur machine?

u can very well expect double the performance from a 4870 to a 6990M and about triple the perf. when jumping to a 7970M

 

Wrong thread sorry guys

 

How difficult is it to get a 7970M? I haven't seen any for sale. How difficult is it to get it to work in the r2? And how much is it? O_O

 

check with resellers like mythlogic & rjtech for example. the latter has separate offers online on their website for complete upgrade kits. gotta check with them for heatsink compatibility for ur machine tho. pricing would be around 400-500 bucks, depending on the source.

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yea overvolted to 1.025v and i havent hit over 80 on temp yet at all, when i run 3dmark 11 im somewhere around 75 so theres plenty of room to explore i think. Ill be flashing to 1.05 v sometime soon to see how far i can really push this card but the results so far are very encouraging. Saying this though, im only benchmarking this hard coz my laptops still under warrantee so if it blows then i can get a replacement fairly easily. But like i said the overclocks quite stable at 1050 core clock 2300 mem clock

 

btw just noticed lol u got pretty much the same laptop specs as me, mines red and got the 3d screen. only difference is iv got 32gb corsair ram and a 128 ssd

 

Nice work, tkcooldude. Crank up those clocks some more I'm curious how close you can get to 9k!

 

General question. As next gen is coming out soon, does the forum want me to get a 3940XM and tinker a bit and see if we can keep up with Haswell like I did with the 2920XM for the R3? I reached 4.7Ghz on the last one. I haven't really been benching or doing any foruming lately and I want to get back into the game.

 

uh nice, widezu is warming up again :-D supporting that idea!

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Well my M17x R3 finally arrived.
Time for some testing.



Cheers.

 

amazing score! and good news for R3 users eh

 

oh damn, first user test of the 780m? u kidding me?

any modded driver .inf files necessary for installation? pic of the pcb? more infos please!

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Hey long,

Good news indeed for the M17x R3 users. Alienware systems just pure awesome for future GPU support. Just keep going and going and going lol. :thumbsup:

Jaybee Champ theres a little more info over here for now.
Alienware M18x R1 running a Nvidia GTX 780M - Let the testing begin
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...unning-nvidia-gtx-780m-let-testing-begin.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...-upgrading-you-gtx-780m-review-inside-30.html

Yup it needs the driver inf to be modded to install the driver. Hopefully support from newer drivers is automatic and heaps better. However if not no worries modding the INF is still okay. It's pretty awesome that the GPU works in the system to begin with.

I hope to do some more testing on the M17x R3 in the coming days.

Cheers.

 

Nice scores brother reborn!!! choices choices, M17x r5 or get a 2920xm and a 780m. Can't decide!! lol

 

hail to the chief! thx for the link buddy, im not around at the aw forums so much, thats why i didnt see it definitely got enough reading material now!

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GTX780M
VBIOS xyxyyyxxx

 

well lets hope my r4 gets support for 880m...

 

I feel like a fool selling my R3... Any chance of optimus working on that?

 

Here's an updated score for my R2. P7115 in 3D Mark 11.

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/4537/3dmark11score1.png

And an update for Vantage. P24003

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6725/vantage2.png

 

I haven't even started overclocking and I know im going to beat this. I mean

This is mine stock, but I have the 7970M.
XD
I was messing around with 3dmark11 2 nights ago and I pulled P7400

 

here is what got with my 7970m.room temp is 27 celsious!clocks 1070 core 1560 memory!hope they make 780m work on our HM laptops...

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6693475


Just getting started.

highest I can take it without overvoltage
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6693780


EDIT. Proof is in the numbers yall.
P7404 just like I said :3
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6694445

 

why i get so much lower score with same clocks?cpu makes so much difference?

 

I dunno, probably because of a my CPU, OS tweaks and stuff like that.
I've also been an overclocker for like...years.
I know what I'm doing.
I tweaked the OS, and I use the standard WHQL drivers and my experience.
Oh yeah Im running 1866mhz RAM in 12GB Dual Channel(2x4gb 2x2gb 6gb perchannel). So my ram and processor microctransfer right is significantly higher than yours.

Also stop using freaking image shack, they are awful
go use imgur or tinypic, or photobucket. seriously image shack is garbage, everyone needs to abandon them ASAP.


BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHA

Anyone wanna bet I hit 1ghz?

 

these are pretty darn awesome scores!

congratulations on your new beast! enjoy!

 

is the difference so much between 3620qm and 2720qm?also i use windows 8 pro.as for the clocks of 7970m im stable both gaming and benchmarks with 1070 core and 1560 memory with max temp 83 with room temp 27!!btw thx for the info for the other image upload sites!i ll try them!!

 

-looks at your signature-
3DMark 11 P7621

Damn you. I must beat your score >.>

Also I ran a full stress test.


Didn't even break 67C

1ghz HD7970M
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6695051



I'm calling it, I'll OC it harder later, im just blown the hell away at the moment...wow.

 

my new high score!
so happy


but i just cant seem to breach the 8000 barrier

using techinferno's svl7 [1.00 OV] bios

just scored a sweet 2500 in FireStrike Extreme!

Screenshot by Lightshot

(yeah, i know, the fps are pathetic )

 

Slight GPU Core Clock OC only.
GPU score is quite nice

Cheers.

 

You just crushed my hopes and dreams :<

LOL that's pretty epic.