*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread - Part 2

Only saved the screen dumps at that size. Meh. I'm out. Will benchmark again another time. What can't you read? Surely you can see the details on the wPrime dump at least. I did all the tests one after the other, so the details are identical for CPU-Z on all of my screen dumps.

 

I'll see what i can do. but take a second look at page one. it shows how the screens should look.

 

Cool. Yeah I followed page 1 as closely as I could but then had to resize to be able to upload.. Don't have anywhere to host the images so I cant use the spoiler command. I'll have to set up my FTP on the new machine so I can put them up on my webserver and link from there in future.

 

I use imageshack.us
It's been a very good site for me for many years. And it's free.

 

John you mentioned on Mr. Fox's post "that's what happens when you turn on Physx" I thought it was already on? Is there somewhere you are talking about to enhance the settings.... Especially to get scores like that?

Thanks

 

Yes. it allows the cpu to generate a much higher score. Giving the final score a nice big boost.

 

John, But where is it turned on? I see it in the Nvidia settings? Do i need to change it to a certain GPU or maybe CPU? Or is there a separate program to use? I am currently on 290.36 drivers.

Or am I missing something? Fox and I have the same system...

 

When you start vantage, click options then click disable ppu. And that will turn it off. You can also turn it off in nvidia control panel and it's off all the time.

 

John, What settings do you have in your control panel? Screen Shot? What GPU should I put it on?

And Thanks BTW

 

OK I've ramped up my clocks for another run. Already smashed my wPrime scores. About to run more 3D mark tests. Will post up my results full size before I go to bed

 

Just give it a dry run and see what happens.. . Leave everything as is.
then we will get all technical with it later..

 

wprime 1.55 first 32m run 6.162



wprime 1.55 second 32m run 5.823

 

now this is looking more like right! nice job!

Side note:
cpu benching doesn't need gpuz...

A few test runs...
5.1 GHZ

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2150600



Old run

 

5.1ghz nice! What multi? All 4cores?

 

Somehow I think John is going to win this! LOL.

OK these are the absolute best scores I can get out of my system with ambient cooling and without forcing fans ETC. Any higher on the GPU and I get lockups and I don't want to push my CPU above 95 degrees, even if its stable.

I dunno how the hell you're getting so high John. Stock cooling? Either way RESPECT!! And as for Terry. How he got 8500 in 3D mark with the same GPU overclock as me and a lower CPU clock speed is beyond me. Not questioning it, just would love to know how he did it!

3D Mark 2006 - 25345

Spoiler

http://www.sentinelit.com.au/misc/3dmark2006.jpg

3D Mark 2011 - 7457

Spoiler

http://www.sentinelit.com.au/misc/3dmark2011.jpg

3D Mark Vantage - 25652

Spoiler

http://www.sentinelit.com.au/misc/vantage.jpg

wPrime 1.55 - 32M @ 10.609 - 1024M @ 242.605

Spoiler

http://www.sentinelit.com.au/misc/wprime.jpg

 

Your links are not working. I'm running stock cooling with unlocked A05 bios. Put Pri -900 and 0 flex vid 42x multi x4 day to day use.

 

Wrong user name on wprime test it's me lol

 

You cant see my images? or someone else? Working fine here. That's bizzare! John, let me know if you can't see them and I'll host them elsewhere. At the moment they're on my webserver.

Where would i find the unlocked A05 bios?

 

Showing

The requested URL /misc/wprime.jpg/ was not found on this server.

Need to take of the / @ the end of URL

Visit techinferno forum mw86 has it in m18x section

 

I can see them

 

This is why we have the screen shots. It shows everything on the run.

Fixed.

 

Thanks mate and yes just relised after i posted

 

OK should be fixed now. If you still cant see the raw URL is there also. My old scores are still showing in the OP but you might still be updating.

 

It's the NVIDIA Advantage. If ya got, use it... why wouldn't ya? I'd like to have John's score below without PhysX turned.

I'm sure there are children having nightmares because of your avatar.

That's my bro! Totally awesome, John.

I just ran 7500 3DMark11 and 26069 Vantage (without PhysX) and will post the screening here in a bit.

Another big day at work again. TGIF! Have a good day folks.

 

3DMark11: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P7500 3DMarks

Vantage: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P26069 3DMarks

Spoiler

Will have to give 3DMark06 another run later... did not beat my own best
score. Will run it first from a cold boot next time.

 

Alienware M18X 2920XM with dual HD6990M. Installing the dual 6990s netted almost double Vantage score as well as 3D Mark 2006. and 11. WOOT.

 

Let's see the benchmarks, bro. Come join in our fun. Do you have before/after details?

 

First page scores are updated.

 

holy crap john 5.1ghz!!! thats friggin awesome!!! so did u already melt your new lappy yet?

 

Despite being out of the loop for a few months, how do I rank John? (Scores in sig - can re-post if needed)

How is everyone here doing?

 

Welcome back Scook!

 

wow, nice to see your back scook. your scores are mighty impressive buddy. i recently join the M18x club too, heheh

 

Welcome back Sam. It's been a long while buddy!

And everything is the same as before...but...A bit more rounded for everyone to get in on.

 

It is like our personal HWBot - I like that

And same as before....except now the awesome power of the GTX 580m is known! Kind of making me jealous......

 

I'm impressed, these are really nice scores.

[noobquestion] Did you have to overvolt your GPU? If yes by how much? [/noobquestion]

 

And starting to find out about the 2960xm as well. My last chip was a 4.8 ghz... This one is like a 5.1

 

Hey! Look who's here! Nice to see you posting, bro. With scores like you have in your sig, there is no reason to be too jealous... still awesome and hard to touch.

Thank you, Cygoris.

That's not really a noob question in my mind. A noob would not know to even think or ask about that. It's just a request for information as I see it.

The scores you see can be obtained without over-volting. I am running the NVIDIA reference design voltage, and don't see any reason for over-volting the cards. That would be a risk I am not willing to take.

 

My scores are impressive but I also know how much effort went into them, some one with decent knowledge should be able to reproduce or beat them pretty quickly.

One thing I do need intel on though, have the drivers over the last 4 months made any considerable impact on bench scores for the ATI cards?

 

Some of your scores are already beat. And more may come over the weekend. Shaden is a determined fellow.

 

Small error in the 3D Mark 06 overall positions on the front page. I should be 2nd as my score is higher than Mr Fox

Great work putting this together. Lots of fun chasing numbers. hehe

 

Your links go nowhere for me Sam.

Edit:
Got you updated Sam.

fixed.

 

OK, here is my wPrime and SuperPI benchmarks. John - you're doing a great job of keeping track of the numbers.

Question: What is the CPUZ benchmark. I must be missing something, but I don't see anything to click on to run a benchmark with CPUZ.

 

What do you guys think about adding Geekbench 32-bit and
64-bit runs to the list for competition? Worth messing with?

 

um i don't think there is a cpu-z bench. what made you think there was one mr.fox??

 

What I saw here... maybe I am just misinterpreting what's in the list.

Also, not sure which test would/should be the standard for PIFAST.

 

oh your right, my guess would be highest validated core speed???

 

That is correct. If you click the link in my sig. That is a validated cpuz score.

Im thinking of adding the benchtown.com benchmark. It does cpu, plus the rest of the system in total. And it doesn't take all day to run. And can be run in sections to find out where the bencher needs work at.

But we can always put it to a vote.

 

I like the benchtown.com benchmark. It's pretty slick.

So, thanks for clearing up the CPUZ question. When we do that one do you want to see the 3 CPUZ, 1 GPUZ and open validation web page in the screen shot or just a link to the information in the post (like your signature)?

 

Thanks, I actually have the same logic when it comes over volt, although my main reason to not touch it is that I know nothing about it.
I don't know if this is the right place to ask but even though our CPU aren't suited for OC, I saw some performance options in the BIOS, I think it has to do with the bus, but maybe I'm wrong.
Can we adjust these values and to what extend?

I was also wondering how you managed these frequencies, my cards start to suffer at 740.

 

Like this Brother Fox.
5.125Ghz