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    mx 17 R2 benchmarking

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by shona the girl gamer, Apr 1, 2011.

  1. shona the girl gamer

    shona the girl gamer Newbie

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    hi my specs are mx17 R2 cpu i7 740qm gpu 2x 5870, 250gb hard disk,4gb ram, i run a bench test with the free 3d mark basic edtion and my score was just over 3000 it seems a little low it this right for these specs or is there something wrong? thankyou
     
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  2. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    This should be on the benchmarking thread but for the specs,and not being overclocked that sounds right. Im guess you ran 3d mark 11. Also, welcome to the forum.
     
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  3. shona the girl gamer

    shona the girl gamer Newbie

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    i didnt know how to post on that page so i did a reply post on it, if that makes sence, i was trying to work all this out
     
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    shona the girl gamer Newbie

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    so how you get these scores if i only get 3000,DR650SE's Alienware M17x R2 Benchmarks.

    GPU Benchmarks

    5870M Dual GPU
    3DMark Vantage: P19838 Marks
    3DMark06: 23720 Marks
    3DMark05: 31672 Marks
    3DMark03: 80002 Marks
    3DMark2001 SE: 50975 Marks
    Unigine Heaven DX9: 1459.12 Marks
    Unigine Heaven DX11: 927 Marks
    AquaMark: 168065 Marks
     
    shona the girl gamer, Apr 1, 2011
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    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Your Mark11 score is about right as said. Short of ripping out your cpu, dropping a 920 or 940xm in, tossing in a couple of SSD's , a few more gig's of ram, using throttlestop and alot of patience, you will NEVER get the kinda figures DR650SE has listed.

    You just dont have a system capable (at the moment with your specs) of achieveing those figures. The xtreme cpu's simply blow the rest out the water when it comes to benching etc.....total beasts.
     
    steviejones133, Apr 1, 2011
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  6. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    They are all different benchmarking programs with different standards. I also have my system overclocked when benching. 3Dmark 11 is new and the most demanding. Its specifically desongwd to test direct x 11 hardware.
     
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    source144 Notebook Consultant

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    I have crossfire 5870, i7 820qm, 8GB ram @ MHz and I get 3000-3500 with one GPU and 8000-9000 with crossfire (both GPUs) enabled...

    But my GPUs are bad and dell is suppose to replace them...

    Anyway, I didn't OC or anything and I wounder if that score (not over 20 fps in the GPU test and not above 12~14 in the second GPU test) is normal for my Alienware M17xR2's hardware
     
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  8. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Source, your using Vantage. OP is using 3dmark11
     
    DR650SE, Apr 1, 2011
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    Necrotopsy Notebook Consultant

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    these are my benchmarks with only slight over clocks (in the sig)
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    you have to understand there are lots of different 3dmark benchmarks. 06, vantage, and now 11, are the most common.
     
    Necrotopsy, Apr 1, 2011
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