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    overclockinng M17X R3 Post Results

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by johnnobts, Jan 30, 2011.

  1. johnnobts

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    Anyone else with the 460m want to post their results?

    Using 3DMark 2006:

    Mine at stock was around 14400.
    Overclocking 817/1634/1309 I get 16682
     
    johnnobts, Jan 30, 2011
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    Just an FYI this is most likely going to get closed and forwarded over to the benchmarking thread ;)
     
    DaneGRClose, Jan 30, 2011
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  3. Dr. J

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    Put your system specs in your sig!

    Nice improvement. How are the temps?
     
    Dr. J, Jan 30, 2011
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    That is very good. How did you go about OC the 460M? Where you able to OC the CPU at all?
     
    Joebarchuck, Jan 30, 2011
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  5. johnnobts

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    using evga precision graphics tuner.
     
    johnnobts, Jan 30, 2011
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    Haven't tried that one, do you have a link to it?
     
    Mandrake, Jan 30, 2011
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    DaneGRClose, Jan 30, 2011
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  8. CptXabaras

    CptXabaras Overclocked, Overvolted, Liquid Cooled

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    can you run Vantage with no assistance from physics during the cpu test and report?
     
    CptXabaras, Jan 30, 2011
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    How long have you run it like that? Stable at those settings? Temp? How much of an fps improvement?
     
    Emm3, Jan 30, 2011
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    at the hospital, can't run vantage till i get home and install it. gfx seems stable at those settings, but i play games at default clocks.
     
    johnnobts, Jan 30, 2011
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  11. Emm3

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    Just curious isn't oc to get higher performance 'for' games? I don't mean any offense I'm clueless about doing this stuff.
     
    Emm3, Jan 30, 2011
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  12. Joebarchuck

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    Those scores are really promising. That means with the 2820QM and the 6970M it might be possible to break 22K which would put it very close (At least in 3Dmark06) to the OCed R2 with 5870XF.
     
    Joebarchuck, Jan 30, 2011
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  13. ECKS

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    Bump for knowledge.

    Also, how does one OC the cpu? Is setfsb or throttlestop appropriate?
     
    ECKS, Jan 30, 2011
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    No one knows yet, no one has really tried it out. With what we've seen from UncleWebb on TStop it's probably not going to be able to OC SB cpu's but might be able to change some settings such as TDP, TDC, etc. On Setfsb I don't know for certain with that either. I know there's some OCing options in the BIOS but again no one has tried them yet.
     
    DaneGRClose, Jan 31, 2011
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  15. ECKS

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    Most likely I won't OC until like 3-4 years down the line, as I don't need it for anything anyhow. 2720QM should be fine for SC2 and emulators.
     
    ECKS, Jan 31, 2011
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    That is a great idea... Done.

    BTW, folks, if you want to discuss overclocking on the R3 and settings... why don't one of you write up a guide on how to do this (including steps and such) for the BIOS settings? It would help to answer quite a few questions and provide a common area for overclock settings, etc. to be discussed.

    For benchmark posts however, use the benchmark thread. Thanks.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/455435-official-m17x-benchmark-thread-part-3-a.html
     
    BatBoy, Jan 31, 2011
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