*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 3

lol, could have figured that myself Mandrake!

Well... good luck!

 

haha that's pretty cool.

 

congrats mandrake for being the fastest 3dmark06 laptop in the world right now.

i have to get a record like that. lol.

 

i am sure i could beat mandrakes score if i knew so many for overclocking as he does..


anyway it seems like trying for something just for the record. is anyone going to keep his machine at those overclocking levels? NO. so real life differs and real performance is lower. i really dont care as soon as i can play games flawlessly and this has been done with the 4870s . cheers and congratulations Mandrake

 

congratz mandrake!

 

I love my machine honestly. I just want to buy another qx9300 to see if I can achieve a higher overclock on my cpu. Not for any records but for self satisfaction. At 3.087ghz. I'm getting 48xx constant on 06 cpu run....

my system is ridcoulus stable.

 

You did it...Congrats..!
now on to the next record lol

 

guess I will have to get back to the benching sooner than I anticipated haha

so you are using 9.11 for 06 then Mandrake?
nvm, just saw you did that with 9.12

guess I will need to figure out how to finish a run at 3.5 on my QX9300 haha....dont think there is enough voltage in this thing though

 

So far this is what I got.

Stock GPU and Stock CPU




Stock GPU and 5% CPU

 

Are you seeing the flickering we've been talking about?

 

No Mandrake..what flickering??

 

well guys my machine is the same as joker's and mandrake's is flickering on masseffect 2 max out also sttutering my framerates was 17 and also on vantage benchmark and resident evil benchmark so.... this going back to dell monday

 

Have you loaded a game yet?

BTW, you reserved a spot on the first page for your numbers.

 

you need to run a heavy game or benchmark to see the flickering also with furmark and prime

 

so it's universal right... it flickers at completely stock with turbo enabled..correct?

 

The flickering only happens with the 920XM processor correct?

 

I ran 3dmark and vantage with TURBO + Xtreme combined. NO flickering ...

Installing RE5 right now and try to max everything and bench. I will post update after one run.

 

To answer both of your questions it looks like the answer is yes.

There was one person with the 820 saying his video was scrolling. Don't know if it's the same thing.

 

It's more obvious with games.

 

yep even with prime runing only 4 threads not 8 and furmark

 

try this exact same thing with the power unplugged....im curious as to what will happen....
just prime with 4/4 then try 4/8

 

Does it do it with the 820?

 

What has been Dell's answer to your calls on the flickering? Are they doing a driver update? A BIOS update? Anything?

 

I didn't even talk to tech support about it.

When I found the OC bug in R1 they didn't care.

 

O.k. I just finished running RE5 Benchmark and this is what I noticed....

1) a littlt stuttering
2) Flickinering every 30 sec or so...

And here is one more thing that I noticed but not sure if it is the screen feature or windows 7.

While running RE5 Benchmark, the screen dimmed. Is that normal? I had to move my mouse to get the screen back to lighter from dim.

 

Can't answer the dimming question but you can go into advanced power schemes and turn any auto dimming off.

 

O.k. I went to check on the power scheme and The screen has a DIM feature. The reason why I am saying is because this is whats in the advance power settings

Auto Dimming

Battery: on
Plugged In: Off

My laptop is plugged and it should not have dimmed.

So this is the same feature from the previous m17x-R1 where the screen dim by itself, and not the windows 7 auto Dim feature. oh boy...

 

It was more of an auto contrast and I'm not witnessing it.

 

so...do they shut off if you try to stress them on battery?

 

I can try it but what are you trying to prove with the test? I would assume no flickering but crappy FPS.

 

Weird. First I thought it was auto contrast too in the scen where they was at the dock. The second time I let it dimed, i didn't touch my mouse, until it was dimed quite long. So I moved my mouse and it got lighter... weird

Going to install a Fresh copy of Win 7 and see if it has the same issue. BRB

 

trying to see if it has any of the same problems as the gateway fx line.

 

The results were the system shut down?

 

yep. same thing.

wow...hate to say it...but they need a bios update...the voltage settings are off.....(speculation of course)

guess you guys can't game on battery either...for those who thought they we're going to floss in front of friends at the park or something...lol

 

No, I didn't test it. I was just asking the question.

 

that would have been one of the first things i tested, from prior experiences

 

I'm done testing for the day. Played with it too long today. Tomorrow will be a new start.

 

speaking of battery...i just did a search and not one person has reported gaming on battery? or am i missing something.

 

I rarely ever use the battery.

 

you might not, but that use to be one of the things spoke on. "gaming on battery" not me of course. im posted near an outlet at all times.

when you get time...see if you can look at the bios...there may be some clues as to a possible fix in there.....

 

I'm getting less than 16,000 in 3dmark06. I don't see how you guys could be pulling off 18-19k without there being a problem with my cards.

I've formatted and put win7 ultimate x64 on along with mobility modded 9.12 (hotfix) drivers. 9.12 detected and enabled crossfire immediately after installing (i didn't have to pre-install dell's crappy drivers).

Am I doing something wrong?

And its not just that your CPU score is higher than mine (which is to be expected). Your sm2 and hdr scores are way higher as well.

 

Here is another one:

5% CPU and OC GPU

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2503/3dgpu5.png

 

go get'em ren!!

 

was playing bioshock earlier and wondering why i couldn't keep 60fps with my setup with everything maxxed out ( i figured it should be able to) and was getting really pissed....stealth mode was on. sneaky lil biatch that stealth mode

 

So how does this stealth mode work can you turn it off were it stays off? or is it an automatic thing that just gets confused somtime?

 

nice ren. good job. checking your scores i'm missing something somewhere.

 

keep up the good work guys, I like a challenge!

 

yes, make sure you submit all high scores to orb.

 

You're not doing anything wrong. 3dMark06 is CPU sensitive. Most of the 920s at stock clocks run a little over 18K. The 19-20K scores are with both CPU and GPUS overclocked.

Your score is right in line for an 820. There is no way to compete with the 920s.

Are you suffering any of the throttling or flickering/flashes seen by the 920s?

 

Here is another one:

5% CPU + OC GPU

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2830/3d5gpu1333.png