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

New 3Dmark11 P9706 bench with the crippled driver 352.86 Works well with my AW17. Many get low benchmark scores and trottling with this driver.

3Dmark11 score's with crippled bios in Aw 17 vs last benchmark scores. Latest score is + 42.5%
higher than one of the first 3Dmark11 tests I run on my AW17.

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/3dm11/7252904/3dm11/9860543

3 x Gtx780m sli vs single gtx780m (Papusan). LoL. Know that the gtx780m sli score is low; but but .

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/3dm11/9860543/3dm11/9093173/3dm11/9093195/3dm11/8300408

 

Tested 3DMark Fire Strike P6508 with 352.86. Score is better with this driver than earlier driver's and higher Overclock of the graphics card.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4934209

 

New 3DMark Fire Strike score P6524 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4951101

 

Stock score with single GTX 680m

 

Stock score with single GTX 680 - Vantage.

Been out of the overclocking scene. Gonna slowly get back into it . As soon as all my AW are fixed

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10346400 My First Run using prema vbios on my 980m , not bad for a single card ...well happy ..now for some playing

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8755554 my first run using demo version of firestrike 1.1 ..

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10356616 so close to 13k , I think maybe I need to install xtu and get that cpu score up a bit ...any good profiles for the 4910mq....cheers

 

Use the guide from @Mr. Fox There is no major difference in procedure. Slightly different settings and less choice. http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ly-have-it-run-full-stock-turbo-speed.734696/
Or take a look at the Xtu settings/profiles for i7-4900/10Mq in the different Xtu test results in Hwboot. http://hwbot.org/benchmark/xtu/rankings?hardwareTypeId=processor_2882&cores=4#start=0#interval=20
http://hwbot.org/benchmark/xtu/rankings?hardwareTypeId=processor_3575&cores=4#start=0#interval=20

 

New Wprime 1024 score. 167.460 sec http://hwbot.org/submission/3005419...e_i7_4930mx_2min_47sec_460ms?recalculate=true vs
Modern BGA junk... http://hwbot.org/submission/2851961_rimbamerdeka_wprime___1024m_core_i7_4720hq_3min_31sec_695ms

 

Yay Got my 13k so that will do ..just used Throttlestop didn't want to go the XTU way after the issues I had with it ...anyway not bad for a single card laptop .. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10423635

 

My Final Post was aiming to get over 10k with the cpu finally with some liquid ultra got my best score yet ..that stuff is awesome just hope i don't short out my system hahahaha http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10448438 13267 marks in 3dmark11 10312 cpu .

 

Hey guys. Sorry for the slightly off topic post but do you reckon OC is worth it for gaming? I mean after an hour or so of playing around with my 980m and getting some very very decent results on 3dmarks and Unigine HAven/Valley, I did some benching in Arkham Knight and Witcher 3 using Fraps and found the differences with stock to be negligible (I am using Prema's vbios by the way).
So I just went back to stock to avoid any surprises later on...

 

My bench AW 17 R1 GTX 970M

 

Overclocked the old 7970m to 980/1560 (stock 850-1200) without overvolting it and replaced the cpu for a slighly quicker one (3720QM) and got a pretty nice score for the old beast:



Could go higher with overvolting it but it runs pretty fine as it is (max temp around 70 degrees)

 

Hi

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10580379

 

Hi...

I need your help. First the two 3DMark Screenshots, which I understand:

3DMark06:



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3DMarkVantage:



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I understand those benchmarks so far, that they're consistent, but what really surprises me, is, that they're enough for a place in the top5 according to the 1st post. As these are screens from an unmodded non-overclocked standard M17xR4, I assume, that there is some error. (Explanation would be nice. )

What I completely don't understand though, is this score from PCMark7:



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Maybe you'll excuse, that HWiNFO runs in the background instead of GPU-Z and CPU-Z, but my question is, how is this possible? I repeated the test 5 further times and 3DMark7 runs 3 times each trial, which makes 15 tests, and in all of those tests, I was only able to reach 41xx points, which is 1000 points lower than the score I achieved in the 1st trial, which is linked above! From my understanding and from what Futuremark writes, PCMark7 has variating results of about 3%, but that's over 20%!!! I'd really like to repeat the 5.1k result, but I don't know how. The only thing, really, the only thing I did from the 1st trial towards the other ones, was, that I restricted the system to the dedicated graphics card via FN + F7, but I even used system-restore after not finding any way to repeat this result, from a time directly before installing PCMark7, and I still wasn't able to get the 5.1k points again .
Some explanation towards this would be really really nice. I'm also gonna ask on TI and in the Futuremark forums, if nobody here can explain this, and / or once the Futuremark forums are back online.
(Addition: Also, I think the 5.1k score must be the valid one, as iirc the M17xR4 test-system from NBC already got 4100 points, and my SSD is more than twice as fast as the one of that system, I got newer GFX-drivers, so I'd really like to know, how I can "lose" 1000 points through nothing. )

Thank you.

 

I solved the problem about which I reported in the post above. See here if interested in the solution.

 

I did the same today with a very similar notebook. Overclocked 'til 920/1620 and then benched with 3DMark11 and PCMark7. Unfortunately, my values are even lower since the last time when still non-overclocked, so I assume, that the ATI 15.7 driver is a lot faster than the 15.11.1 .

Here are the benchmarks:

 

Not sure what thread I should be asking this in but this looks like the place. I have an Alienware 17 r3 with i7-6700HQ. For some reason my pcmark score is only 2700-2800 no matter what I do. Can someone please take a stock benchmark and screenshot the detailed results to see why my score is so low?

 

Ask rather in the threads for BGA models of Aw http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/official-alienware-17-r2-r3-owners-lounge.770314/