*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 3

what kind of game testing are you guys doing now?

 

Well it still runs Diablo II like a dream...but the cards squeal alot in Act 4 lol

 

nothing right now. no one is really putting up a fight. i can't compete in 06 or vantage cause my cpu doesn't overclock as high.

 

2001se
2003
2005
2006
vantage
super pi 1/32m
wprime 32/1024m

lost of stuff still to test...

who can over clock the memory highest
who can get the highest gflops

 

I can throw up numbers if needed lol

I did the whole battery of HWBot tests

 

yes, please do...time to open the scope of benching...
this form of benching is for speed not quality. once you go tweaking a gaming benchmark..it's no longer a quality one, but a speed one and then falls under synthetic.
this is why i asked "what types of benches they we're doing"

nice set of runs you have don, in the link you provided..shows a wide variation of sorts. great work. sits right up there with vicious

 

Feeling Lazy....just go here haha

http://hwbot.org/community/user/scook9?tab=profile

 

quite the collection you got there buddy. nice job!!

looks better like that. to bad they didn't have an add on game section...

next week...i think i may put the hp nc8430 under phase change...-45'C

to bad i haven't took the time to figure out how to over clock it...hahaha

side note...
how do you set dx10 on batman?

 

http://notebookcritic.com/2010/03/06/mobility-radeon-4870-crossfire-versus-geforce-280m-slinvidia/

Done.

Might be a limitation of my CPU, but the 280m SLI setup has the edge in most games (by a trivial margin).

RADEONS do very well in Dirt 2.

 

*snickering hella hard*
but umm...did i miss something? with everyone of the top laptop benching experts benching games and both cards....none seem to agree with those findings...
except for dirt 2

side note:
the 480/470s are looking like they may be legit..go nvidia! they beat the 5870 at heaven benchmark..(so nvidia says... )

 

I don't know what to tell you. I ran the tests and posted the results. I've been benchmarking hardware for a very long time.

There are a lot of 'this slaughters that' comments in these threads but not a lot of numbers.

Dirt 2 got patched with SLI support a few days ago, so those results are probably a lot closer now too.

 

sort of poking fun at cha lewdvig, because you have been around for quite a long time.

but on the games...we tested them all. the person to ask..dondadah. he can bring it all up in like 10 seconds...lol

but in all out test..280m's lost in the end once the ati cards got unlocked.
and of curse we all know...nvidia sucks when it comes to running any form of AA/AF....hopefully this will change in the next few months.

 

Mine were tested out of the box with no modifications (except drivers but that hardly counts). As fun as it is to mod, not everyone does it.

With overclocking and firmware mods you can always squeeze a bit more out.

 

as soon as you load a new driver....your system becomes modded to who ever setup the ini file...

ill see if i can dig up some of my old stock runs....

 

Those graphs are rather misleading Lewdvig....if you dont look at the scale first it makes the GTX 280m's seem twice as fast where they really only lead by a handful of fps

 

guys i need your expertise here

my qx9300 used to work ok with gaming with the cpu set at 3.175ghz. its three days now that i cant play games with more than 3.07ghz. at least i get blue screen after a while while i am in game. This never happened before until 3.175ghz..

what happened?

 

does your system behave properly on battery and what not?

I had this problem and after a motherboard replacement I am back at 3.33

 

when you say if it behaves good on battery what you mean?

 

My system used to recognize the battery but not work off it at all

If I pulled the ac, instant loss of power. Could not boot off battery alone either. Got a new motherboard in there and it was good to go again.

 

Only if you don't read the numbers or the text of the article.

Re: format of the charts, that's the way Excel made them. It's the numbers that matter. Like I said, its pretty much a wash (said that in the article too).

I think the SLI support in Dirt 2 that was just added a few days ago will negate the ATI lead there.

So that was a whole lot of work to determine that on a 2.8 Ghz C2D the 4870xf is the same as the 280m SLI - silly partisanship not withstanding.

As far as mobility GPUs go neither company has delivered meaningful improvements in a few years. So they both suck.

 

It would also be interesting to see the effect of a quad core on these tests, if one set of drivers utilizes a quad better than another

I understand that is out of your scope, but would still be interesting. Think we can go to Don for that, he had the GTX 280m with both a T9300 and his QX9300

 

my system recongizes the battery and i can normally boot on battery only.

thus when removing the ac it continues to work on battery. of course it stucks because the ATI driver is not the Dell one.

i tried to completely power off the machine for a while but this issue seems to be here to stay. even changed the thermal paste.

any clues?

 

Interesting. Is not the problem I had then

 

it looks like its not. i always have strange problems..my M17X is made to make my life difficult. lool. this is not a real issue of course as gaming on 3.07 or 3.199 ghz doesnt really makes a difference.

i will try to get a photo of the blue screen when it appears. the problem is that it appears randomly so i would have to be really fast and ready to do it.

edit: i forgot to say i am on 3.04 ghz now.


is there any possibility that the cpus life is reduced or something? are those symptoms of something like that or if this happens it just stops working at all?

 

Before I put the 280m cards back in, are there any mods that would net substantially more performance from the 4870s?

What kind of clocks are people using day in/out?

 

ok i just did the cpu registry tweak and i could play for long at 3.185ghz before the game stuck. not blue screen.

 

As long as the temperatures are managed (I would say under 80c) you cannot damage these cpus overclocking them. The reason is we never go outside the specified voltage - which is what causes the damage

 

lol. what do you need?

 

So 620/950 are probably good - I can't imagine that will make a big difference vs the scores I got. Plus it is a whole lot of flashing/testing to get there.

I think I'll need a QX to get the most out of these cards. Hmmm.

 

I haven't seen a benchmark in while.

I'm trying to get re5 to perform better but I can't get it high like mandrake.

drake how did you get 112fps on it? What settings did you have?

 

He had a highly overclocked CPU Don....that seems to be your achilles heel....

I am not buying an ES again after seeing difference with these QX9300s

 

CPU @ 3.28Ghz, AA and Motion Blur turned off.

 

it's not that much 3.150 vs 3.33ghz. And voltage is limiting it not the chip it self. In the whitebook this same cpu hits 3.2 all day.

drake can you space the @ sign. My phone thinks I'm sending an email.

 

drake was your gpu overclocked in that run. I got it working good know. Ii got 98fps with my cpu at 2.93ghz and stock gpus running 10.2...

 

That I didn't document, I don't remember.

 

I don't think so. I did very light tweaking I got 100.2 f

 

Here is some hard drive stuff to chew on

I am kind of new to these tests, is this good? And yay, didn't realize my ssd supported TRIM haha (but does the MCP79 and its drivers?)

SSD (Corsair X128)
http://i49.tinypic.com/x582nn.jpg

HDD (WD3200BEKT)
http://i47.tinypic.com/5np3br.jpg

 

did you turn off motion blur and AA?

 

yes. That made me get higher. Motionblur takes a huge fps off.

 

did your turn the ai of? or to standard?

 

And here is the exact same run for the SSD but with the nforce sata controller driver removed so that I should actually enjoy the benefits of TRIM. I will do another in a couple hours after TRIM has allegedly cleaned up my SSD and improved the performance

http://i46.tinypic.com/142565s.jpg

 

i justed checked ccc and everything is set on high quality.... tonight i will see what will happen.....

 

Moving forward, any benchmark posts of non-M17x systems will be removed as it is OT and not specific to the M17x. This thread is for benching the M17x. If you want to bench another system and discuss it, do it in the Gaming/Hardware section of NBR or in the NBR forum for that system.

Any questions on this, send me a PM.

Thanks.

 

i set it to high performance and it didnt make a difference.

 

Hey everyone, i've got a problem with my m17x r2. I did not reinstall the OS i just used the one from the factory. i wanted to try Benchmarking, so installed 3dmark06, went to the overclock settings and practically put everything at the highest settings. when i run 3dmark06 i got 11,000 or something in that range. i upgraded to the latest bios, and still no help. i was hoping to know if its something i can fix, with a driver,program, or something of that sort. can anyone help?
Also does anyone have a good way to OC?

 

crossfire isn't on it looks like to me.

 

I checked it on catalyst and gpuZ it says its on... do u think its a driver issue?

 

need to see a screenshot of 06.

 

here is a link
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3854/zdfgasd.png

 

something is up with your cpu. make sure it is set to high performance.