*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 3

I was looking through Dell's ftp site for the old bios and I saw the the M11x bios was called M11R1....guess that means they're will be a R2.

 

I tried going there, I did not find the old Bios, just the A02. If it is going to be trouble, forget about it. I just wanted to see the performance difference between the two. Seeing as when i got my laptop, i upgraded the bios right after fixing the thermal paste issue.
Are you going to upgrade to the 5870's as soon as they are released or wait for a weeks and compare them to the 4870s

 

What about your resource DVD? Does it only have A02 on it?

 

I have not tried that, does it even have a bios on it?? and if so where?

 

You have an extreme processor, you should expect one back in return. Ask for the Intel i7-920XM.

My old M17x had the bios on the resource DVD. I can't tell you exactly where on the DVD since I don't currently have it.

 

does my last run count

 

You should be shunned for coming within 13 points of 22K and giving up.

 

SHUNNNNNNN

And TonyWallace, don't post the exact same thing in more than one thread. That is called cross posting and can get you banned

 

Nice Vantage run Code...do you just use an air conditioner for cooling?? +repped for 15k run

 

Thanks, I hit 14,700 on a crappy fan, i thought it might overheat if i went any higher so i stuck it in the fridge for a while. I think it might be better with an air conditioner as it would likely be blowing directly into the system and not around it.

 

I need to do a fresh install on my ssd of windows 7. Been dreading that

Hopefully that will solve my ATI driver install issues I have been having. I still want to load up the R2 BIOS and try it out as well as these new drivers.

 

That might help the problem, When you flashed the R2 vbios, whos vbios did you try?

 

I do not recall who posted it up. Just noted the different VBIOS version and was mainly hoping that something about power distribution (not visible to use) is adjusted to allow further overclocking.

If you have a stock R2 vbios you can post I can give it a go as well. The one I had, i flashed it on and tried loading drivers, everything seemed to load but no CF support - which is obviously a no go.

 

Here is the file containing both stock and overclocked. The ones that are stock are called bios0.rom and bios1.rom, overclocked are the ones with nbios0.rom + nbios1.rom . http://www.box.net/shared/5x3rkj5jiy
I hope this helps you or any other person.

 

So that is the vbios exactly as it was pulled using gpu-z or RBE? Straight off the card?

Thanks as well

 

I believe I used ati flash for flashing the bios and getting the bios.

 

I did a bit of tweaking and got the following Vantage results (maybe it'll qualify to be put on the list in the beginning his time. ).

3D Mark Vantage:
3DMarks: P14017
GPU: 13469
CPU: 15968

 

Nice, added!

 

Nice , And " keep it coming " as Mandrake's favorite quote.

 

Doing good . what were your CPU settings?

 

do boot times count as a benchmark?

I just tested mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yzilJZJWL8

 

I like the program that you used. +rep

*EDIT*
These are the times with a setup for every day use, not for benchmarking
http://img709.imageshack.us/i/run2.png/

 

awesome boot. that x25 is flippin' crazy.

 

Yeah I am very happy with this SSD, probably my best investment on this laptop.
There are ways though to cheat and achieve even lower times...

 

Just got the system this week and tried a few stock runs, and found my results were ALOT lower than you guys were hitting. Did a tiny bit of overclocking and I'm still seeing numbers 3-4k below what you guys hit. Is the I7 720 the cause?

This is with the cards clocked at 600/1050 with 1.1V

Specs : m17x-r2, i7 720, 4gb 1033, 4870s in xfire, 250gb 7200rpm.
Drivers : Ati 10.3
Bios : A2

3DMark Score P11407
3DMarks CPU Score 10607
Graphics Score 11701

Do these scores seem normal, or am I somehow doing something wrong?

 

Keep in mind the top scores are highly tweaked systems with OCed 920-XM cpus and the GPU's reflashed.

 

Those are just fine. At stock clocks, 720QM/4870CF setups average about P10,700.

 

That would help in a PCMARK Vantage benchmark, i think. You've got a really good system, BTW.

 

I didn't know where else to ask about this but here goes, I overclocked the GPUs to 600/1000 to run Crysis Warhead, with everything maxed out smoothly. But for some weird reason the second GPU is never used, does Warhead only use one GPU? Here is a screenshot of temps, along with GPU and CPU utilization.
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2889/ocgpu.png

 

Does the Crossfire icon come up during full screen while playing? I don't OC but the icon comes up in the top right-hand corner during full screen Crysis (all of them)

 

I have not noticed any crossfire icon when playing,not even with normal clocks, should I?

 

Right-click ATI tray icon> ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 > CrossFireX Settings > Show CrossFireX Status Icon. Make sure a check mark is there. Then launch a fullscreen game and see the icon to verify Crossfire is working.

You'll see this in the top right hand corner:

 

Thanks for the tip, i never knew anything about that icon I ran L4D2 on my benching partition, it ran utilizing both cards, now im installing crysis on that same partition, hoping it might be something else. Thanx for that icon tip. +rep

 

I had been wondering how to enable that, thanks haha

 

So for the first time since getting them in late January.....I have finally checked out the temps on my 4870s haha (after applying OCZ Freeze as the TIM)

Do these look ok? Was in a room at about 75f with the cryo under the laptop while running FurMark (1920x1200, MSAAx8, extreme burn mode, full screen) for 5 minutes. They are temps I am ok with but figured I would ask

 

i have gamed on mine for a few hours playing l4d and crysis and mine got to about 65c with the cryo under it. so yea that looks ok. furmark gets those temps up but i have not run it on my alienware

 

here are my r2 scores before the 5870s arrive and smoke everyone in the thread 20.4k 06 and 13.3k vantage..

 

nice, added to the leader boards. In the future make sure your 3DMark06 settings are displayed in the screen shot also.

 

Nice scores, how did you get it stable at 4Ghz? Are you using the A02 Bios?

 

yes a02 bios that was in the laptop when it shipped.. bios oc 5% eleet multiplier 29

i also realised that with the r2 i could push my atis to higher clocks without changing the voltage..

 

sorry wrong pic will fix

 

here is the right pic

 

how is this?

 

Added to the top 5!

 

here is my 06 1st oc run.

 

Nice run claxdog! are you increasing Vcore too? The multipliers can get to 27-29, keep pushing the CPU and keep it cool.

 

What are your default turbo boost multipliers for the 920?

 

24 ^10char

 

Yeah I show 24 across also which is not correct. I wonder why Dell did this because it would get that info from the BIOS.

 

I tried a run with a single 4870, i got around 14.3K, with 27 multipliers. Oced the card to 675/1140. Should i try pushing it even further? I thought the problem with the low scores might be the PSU, not giving the processor, enough power, but with a single card with 5% oc and on 27 multipliers, it should handle that. Not being able to get the full performance sucks!