*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 3

One of the other departments borrowed the R3, I'll try and mess with the overclock settings tonight if we get it back by then.

We should be getting a shipment of spares for it, so maybe I can try different video, proc, ect.

 

any 2820qm numbers yet?

 

Man I'm so close to 5500 points in 3dmark11! All running on air with stock cooling except my heat sinks all have the retention modification with MX-4 paste. Temps are great for the CPU/GPU and neither spins up to full throttle even with the system highly overclocked. I need to raise my CPU physics score another 300 points.

Edit:

OMG..now my R2 is just messing with me. Look what I just got: Result

 

Heh, heh, Joker, you'll get her here in a bit, no doubt.

 

Hehe damn straight! Let's see R3 ever touch that score. BTW I have a good feeling about 6970M Xfire working in the R2.

 

i'll be getting some 6970m cards if so

 

You know I will.

 

nice! tomorrow I will give it a shot as well

 

As will I

 

Joker, you cannot compare the R3 anymore to the R2 as you said it yourself, the replacement of the R2 is the M18X. I am sure the M18X will be able to reach that score...

Now that being said, I am confident that if you had an R3 with 2920XM and 6970M you could get close to that score as you are quite good with tweaking laptops for extreme benchmark results...

 

just ran 3Dmark06 for AMD 6870
was hoping for slightly better performance. will try overclocking soon.
what programe should i use for OCing?
and room temp for both runs were at 23-24 degrees. AC was on




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3Dmark06 for the IGP.
only 4669 3Dmark.



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For 3DMark06, I would start by overclocking the CPU as that will improve your FPS in the benchmark since it is a CPU dependant benchmark.

 

Is there any 3DMark Vantage run for R3's? Either with 460m or 6870m. I would like to see the pure GPU score without the CPU influencing the final score too much (as per 3d mark 06....)

 

hey joker, how about this one?
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/523226

 

Guess now you have to get to 6k

 

Hmm, I might have to get in on the 3DMark11 action

 

I don't have snow here so no 950 mhz clocks for me..punk!

 

i don't think we can hit 6K... unless they release some new drivers
Though my gpus can go a bit higher, but not too much

What's taking you so long?

 

hahahah room temperatures btw...

 

Man Im having overclocking withdrawals.. won't be able to touch my lappy till end of feb

 

Last bench for today
P5796 so close to 5800
(that run was on my balcony )
I don't think it's possible for 6K

Result
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7904/3mark115796.png

 

Lol, motivation. I downloaded it, and will purchase a registration key for it, just havn't bothered yet.

 

Do you really need the registration key? I mean you can run the benchmark like that just fine...

 

True, I like to test a bunch of the settings though. I'll have to give it a few runs. Mostly it's just a pain to remove the keyboard and swap my benching drive in. I should just do it though.

 

Yeah I have no benchmarking partition either, no time to properly set it up...

 

Yesterday while re-imaging my RAID setup I used one of the X25-M drives to install my benching image. I did a few tweaks to it (JBB Tweaks) since I run it off the Intel X25-V 40GB drive. Right now I'm going to secure erase the X25-V and re-image it. Then I think I'll run a few benches on it

 

You know with how many times you have mentioned the word "Secure Erase" on this forum, i bet you imagine running through scenario's in your dreams "Secure erasing" your SSD and HDD and have it down to memory verbatim but on the other hand you could not remember your wife/girlfriends favorite movie

 

Hahaha, thats funny, because when I was in Iraq, I forgot my fiance's birthday, I remembered in the AM, called in the evening and totally forgot. She reminded me, not too happy, but security erase? No prob, sudo su, (hot swap) hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass Eins /dev/sda, time hdparm --user-master u --security-erase Eins /dev/sda

 

3D Vantage 8778

Result

 

Ran 3DMark11 Real quick, pretty much at stock so I got something like 2K, so it might have been on a single GPU as well, didn't even watch it, but couldn't get Rivatuner working so that threw a damper on things. Didn't try very much cuz I was locking up at clocks of 935/1250. Might try again tommorow.

 

2K only? Sounds like a single gpu indeed but with those clocks you should get much more, do you use the 11.1 drivers?

 

3dmark vantage - 6870
P9182 3DMarks



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what are the settings for 3D mark 11 and 3Dmark vantage that you guys use? i just installed and used whatever settings that it came with...

 

You just use the default settings that pop up when you run either of them. In Vantage though, you should turn off the six extra benchmarks. They don't count toward your overall score, and they make the benchmark take a bit longer too.

 

Also disable PPU in options (bottom right)

7800 GPU is what I was able to get with my one of my 4870s overclocked. That was last february though, have not tried since I figured out higher overclocks and newer drivers came out.

http://hwbot.org/community/submissi...erformance_mobility_radeon_hd_4870_8754_marks

 

Yea, though it said it picked up two GPUs, it was at stock, but I'm still on the Stock dell drivers. Tommorrow I'll give it another shot.

 

What are your guys thoughts about the new Vantage 2k11? Will it be a suitable testing tool to replace the previous vantage scores, or shall we leave it the way it is for the forseeable future?

 

I saw leave it, since not everyone is going to be DX11 Capable, but add a seperate catagory for 3DMark11. Just my two cents.

 

I mean its more work at the end of the day

 

True, but not everyone runs the other benches and they are so high as it stands, I doubt you need much more work on those.

 

3DMark 11 will replace Vantage over time, it just needs an acceptance period. Vantage was not used widely over 06 until like late 2008 anyways. There is always overlap when a new bench comes out. I just would love to see people abandon 06!

 

Well there are no rules set in place for vantage 11, so its a free for all right now. Kind of like an unoffical best.

 

It is just 11, not vantage. And there do not need to be rules? Just run it at stock. The performance setting uses 720p so all machines should be able to do that. Extreme uses 1080p I think. Need to look at it more on my desktop, have only ran a couple times

 

I hope is the right place

My scores on my sign with link

i7-840 @ 142Mhz fsb, 5870's @ 850/1125 not that much but neither that bad... and now i want a 920xm baaaaaadly lol!

 

Just did 06 to mine 15767

 

Hi peeps,

I just wanted to check in and ask if you guys can check my settings on SetFSB.

I just wanted to double check that I have maxed out all the settings that I can whilst using it to OC my CPU. *(740QM)*

The settings I have changed and am using currently are 29,20,98,39
I have tried the last setting on "40" but it KO's every time.

I am also considering to finally get a XM cpu in the near future. Perhaps from Joker's recommended seller.

I just wanted to make sure that I haven't missed any other settings that I can set or change.


Thanks Peeps!

Cheers.

 

Hey all just wondering how my score is.

http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy179/woodstockjs/bench1.png

 

Hi,

Could someone help. I have been experiencing a strange issue where the system just lags and the alienware head starts to flash like it is charging then goes back to normally.

I completed the core parking fix as 6 of the 8 cores stated they where parked. This was ok then about 2 hours later it did the same thing again and when i tried running black ops muiltplayer it took about 10 mins to load.

I used windows restore went back to the previous day and everythin was working again. I did a BIOS upgrade from A08 to A10 then downgraded to A09 as each time i logged of i got the awaiting program to finish window for the shutdown sound etc.

I have completed diagnostic checks and drained battery to 7%, the stranged thing was when i connected the power connector it took a minute or so to changed onscreen and the alienware flashing head before it started charging. I have also checked power adapter which i have two of and says 240, this is also confirmed in the BIOS. Any idea's.

 

broke 19k for GPU for vantage with 11.2 Drivers. no external cooling.

 

Very nicely done. Now get that P20k