*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 3

The screen on my Thinkpad looks like crap now, oh well.

 

That's pretty good Mandrake. That means it should not be hard to go over the 20K mark with some OC on your part.

Quick question, you say first stock run yet I see the CPU at 3.19ghz on your pic.

 

Turbo mode is on.

 

Ok yeah, I forgot about that... My bad...

It's good to see that stock numbers are basically max OC numbers from the M17X R1.

Wonder how good it will be with the 5870's...

 

decent OC on the CPU then

 

so...for the "percentage crowd"

how much better is that above a r1?

"To further explain Intel's Turbo Boost Technology on the Core i7 mobile processors, Intel provides this example of how the CPU will automatically combine turbo performance with disabling cores depending on how many threads you are actually using. So with the Core i7-920XM, the CPU will automatically overclock up to 2.26 GHz (up from the base frequency of 2.0 GHz) when you are using all 4 cores. It will then overclock up to 3.06 GHz when using two cores, and all the way up to 3.20 GHz when just using a single core. This is how the Core i7-920XM maintains a max TDP of 55W; by using the power saved by disabling unused cores to boost the frequency of the cores in use, the new i7 mobile processors will put the performance where you need it!"-Legit Reviews

taken from here..
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1084/1/

man, if the real i7's did that...they could beat out all those old gen cpus in the early benchmark programs....lol

edit:
wondering...if you over clock up to 3.2....will it allow you to run all 4 cores.....something to look into early mandrake.
if what they are saying is true....

 

For whatever reason I could not start GPUz. Here is Vantage stock.

 

how do these score compare to your stock R1

 

can you tell if its running on all 4 cores?

 

GPU is the same but the stock CPU score is 2.5K points higher than the highest QX9300 OC score.

Still need to play more.

 

XTU Installs. Let's see if it actually works.

Edit: Nope doesn't start. Using 1.3.9.1 maybe I need to find a newer version.

Edit2: I'm thinking the issue is Win7 64bit.

 

sounds good.

 

The stock R1 with QX9300 and the 4870 was running 15,900 on 3DMark 2006.

It's a 15% increase in performance.

 

i got the ati's.

but my 2nd gpu fan is at max and i'm not doing anything.

 

15% over which numbers and from what starting point.....3 months ago or today? stock back then or stock today? over clocked now?

crossfire enabled?

 

Those cpu scores are SICK!!!!!

(sad face)

 

no crossfire isn't on. it's even maxed out in the bios.

 

I thought my post was quite clear...

The 3DMark 06 score of my M17X R1 with QX9300 (Stock) and 4870 (Stock) crossfire was 15,900.

Mandrake stock M17X R2 with 4870 (Stock) crossfire and Xtreme 920 (Stock) CPU is 18,373.

That is about a 15% increase in performance.

 

i'll throw up some numbersw when i get everything working.

 

hummmm...ok, so before you fix it....what are the temps on that card right now?



side note:
hummm, has anyone tried msi afterburner for over clocking your ati cards?
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm
actually...it works for nvidia cards as well...DT any way...wondering if it works here.

 

you did 15900 with stock cpu and stock gpu in the R1....?

No offense, but have proof? That is way to high for both stock

 

Are you sure? That is what I remember but I have not checked. If I am wrong then the R2 is even better which is amazing.

That would mean a 20% to 25% increase in performance.

I saved my scores let me check them out.

 

Tried it with the M17xR1 and it didn't work.

 

just tried it with my x1600 ...epic fail!

how about eleet from evga?
for cpu over clocking?

 

I can't believe it. You are right. 15,900 was GPU stock but CPU at 2.93ghz.

That means the R2 is about 22% better on 3DMark 06 with the same GPUs. That's quite nice and amazing I think.

This announces a 35% increase in performance with the 5870's and even more once Mandrake will have OC everything.

 

Any chance you can post it for download or have a link that doesn't require a <strike>download</strike> login....I'm getting tired already.

 

5% Oc......

 

sure...give me a sec.

 

How easy is this CPU to OC? Do you think it is very stable compared to the QX9300?

Did you also OC 5% the GPU or just CPU?

 

Just the CPU. The bios simply gives you an option of 1%,2%,3%,4% or 5% but then you also can increase the voltage. Lots to play around with and test.

Haven't tested stability yet.

 

http://www.say-it-loud.com/eleet_1065.exe

ok, it's working

 

Vantage CPU went up to 16852 with the 5% OC.

 

that cpu power is just godly!

now I have to rethink not having the R2....lol

 

Loading up Borderlands right now to test gaming.

 

looks like all 4 cores to me.

 

I'm downloading the turbo boost monitoring utility.

 

wow it seems to work. There goes the 5% crap, lol.

 

Looks like it can mainly control turbo mode. Should work for all the procs.

 

you can oc even further?

20k is going to be a joke.....

 

I can OC the turbo mode even further...I guess that's what counts anyway.

 

Yep it will be.

I think the real mark to shoot for is 25K with the 5870's coming out at the end of the month...

 

Yes, chase to 25K lol.

 

can you move the sliders for the multipliers?

 

Under Turbo Mode control yes but not clocks control.

 

this laptop is already epic in my eyes....lol

 

no qpi control either?

does it allow for voltage control?

 

Voltage is all blank.

 

damn...was worth a shot....

 

still not a total failure...just multi overclock pretty much using turbo bins right?

you can still boost the vcore to accomodate it

 

Any other apps to try? XTU is supposed to work with this proc.