*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread - Part 2

Rotf! Classic!


Side note:
Got 5.234 Ghz Validated. yay me!
CPU-Z Validator 3.1

 

Broke 28k GPU finally. Didn't take much effort either, these 580s scale nicely. Might take my m18x outside in the cold to see how far I can go.

 

Now that's a nice worthy score there Brother joker.

 

Benching out in the cold, takes me back to my M17x days

 

Thanks brother john. Still tweaking before I venture out into the cold.

 

Always best to be ready when going out side...
a bit of advice..
You can run 820 - 850/L/2000
if your cards a good ones.

 

Or well bundled up.....(was my approach...I spent like 6 hours on my front porch...from 11pm to 5am haha)

Fortunately I ultimately learned how to leverage a chest freezer Although it is currently covered in junk in the basement

 

lol. That's not a hard fix.
5.265 ghz
7.180 Super Pi
14.88 Pifast

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SOO close to 29k GPU..ugh! Wish I had a 2960xm to push this thing further.

Very nice..wish I had an extra grand sitting around haha. The 6990 xfire system is loaded with trixx, gpuz, cpuz and vantage. Did a test run with 103.8 bclk and 840/1140 and scored 24k vantage and 25k gpu. Slower than the 580M setup but not by too much.

 

You'll get it. When you up that memory clock. It's too low.

You do... You just don't want to spend it on a cpu is all..

 

Broke 29k GPU! Opened the windows in my room to let the cool breeze in. Girlfriend walked in and was like "what are you doing its freezing in here!" lol!!

Edit: replaced first pic in this post with another more recent score. 30k is getting closer!! John, how about a Vantage GPU score category? For us CPU handicapped people?

 

WTG! Way to kick open the window and get busy! Girlfriend and all.

Side Note:
After looking over your score...It looks like you listen to me..

 

Yup raising the memory helped which is surprising on a 256 bit bus. My core won't go above 870.

Attached is my AMD 6990m xfire score, this is the best it can get for now. I'll make a video of both running side-by-side in a few minutes. Should I set everything to default or max both out and record it? Also, do you guys want quality on default or optimized for performance? Not sure if seeing image quality difference is important or performance.

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk

 

All you had to do was click on my sig to see what you can run
And looking at that last score...You would be sitting around 31k gpu with an decent over clocked 2960/2920xm




Maxed out. Any one can run a a dual stock setup, but running them over clocked is a bit more challenging.

 

I checked out the first page w/the scores Gotta resist..the temptation of a 2960xm! Although I do want a double heatpipe cpu sink. For the AMD vs nVidia video, what about image qualtiy? Default or performance?

 

Im trying to stay on top of that. I may add a section for non extreme cpu/gpu section. Trying to see how much work it's going to be.

Performance

 

Ok 6990m xfire vs 580M SLi in vantage:

Alienware M18x: nVidia 580M SLi vs AMD 6990 Crossfire - Part 1 - YouTube

I'll benchmark batman arkham city and other titles and show it on video later tomorrow.

 

Nice benching going on here BROthers!
Brother Johnksss, DR tells us that you were the KING of Folding a few months back. Come and JOIN the new NBR folding team! We're closing in on the top 5K team Ranking!
Just over a week of Folding and we are moving along nicely!

Now all we need to do is recruit all of you to join our other Brother DR's Folding NBR team!

Links and info in my SIG!

580M GPU systems are especially welcome! CUDA FTW!

Cheers.

 

Yea John, That systems gotta have some down time for folding! I think all the benching crew should join! I want to see how quickly a dual 580M system racks up pts. And how a 2960xm does as well.

 

King of folding? Not even close. . Do you know I have members in the 20+ millions range. haha

I may run it for a bit to see what it can grab.

Side note:
Time to up the bar.
What everyone should be getting with 2960xm/2920xm clocked to 45x and gpus clocked to 800/L/900(1800 mem)
This is going to be the standard for you. Now go make it happen!
P30924 With a 31k gpu.

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That's what that whole blank non extreme cpu category is for. Which no one has posted in. That's 30 points right there for first place

 

5.265ghz love it nice way to push it John... Sending out lappy tommorow or next day.

 

yeah, figured out what i was doing wrong.
Now im suspecting that just about 4.9 ghz on all 4 cores is the max these lappies can do. Due to 1.5V being the max.

 

John, after I get back from holiday vacations, we oughta have a few OC sessions. I need to re-learn a lot of the CPU stuff and see what advances/discoveries have been made

I still want badly to get 8 thread stable past 4.5 GHz

 

Scook you and me both ...

John ... I played for hours last night ... Fricken killing me ... I hit almost every single point possible on flex @ 103.5 45x ... wasen't trying to go all out (your 105.1 45x) ... sort of found a spot where it would pass the tests but multi would drop out ... down to 43 ... then if I increased OR decreased flex from there it would actually decrease the drop out more ... go up a couple or down a couple and multi would start dropping out to 42X ... a little more and 41x ... a little more and I would start BSODing ...

I know the 4.40Ghz is ok (43x 103.5 @ 0 Flex) ... but I am just struggling to hit your freqs on the es chips ... If I can get a 31K CPU ... well ... it would just be sexy ..

Thoughts ?

 

for some reason my 580s don't like to overclock much and I can't get past 750Mhz core and 750Mhz memory. It always locks up. I am running the latest beta drivers. Any advice? I am using Nvidia inspector to overclock the GPUs

 

Sure thing Sam.

@shaden
Your gonna need to be far colder than you are for that to happen. And what i found out is the ES chips are 85 to 90 Watts max and 1.3511V That's why your having a hard time getting higher. you need to be in the 100 watt range.

you need to flash the .092V bios to get above those clocks.

 

Haha I figured something was a miss... could you point me in the right direction to obtain the correct bios for the GPUs. Thank you

 

John Any idea how cold the CPU has to stay ?

I think my top temp was 83C ...

It was not too cold to be sure ... but in a week or so the temps should drop and I can bench in the chill again.

 

You have to be below 70C during the run

@killa
you can grab one from here.
http://www.mvktech.net/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&func=view&catid=13&id=62235

 

You must have missed it... was posted on this thread a few days ago... download it here

Actually, you didn't miss it. You posted immediately after it.

 

I knew it was in here somewhere.

 

3DMark 11: 7909 Accidently closed 3dmark11 after the run so I wasn't able to screenshot it.

 

You have till after xmas to make a better run..

 

So guys, is $450 a good deal for a 2920xm (engineering sample) that has a slight white cloud on teh die? I figure I can always sand it off and smooth it out.

 

Time for the Chief to take the Extreme CPU for a spin!

AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0 @ 2.40GHz,Alienware M18xR1 score: P8584 3DMarks

Johnksss we gotta catch Terry702 LOL!

Cheers.

Quite pricey there Joker, However it does seem to be the cheapest one going atm. They used to be priced at like $300 or just a little bit over which is an insanely good price. I remember when I paid like $350 for my 920XM ES.

Hopefully someone can get some more and sell them for $300 odd again.

Cheers.

 

These numbers are looking nice!
A few things though... 3dmark06, you are covering up the screen size. Trixx does not need to be in the picture, that's why gpuz is there. And of course amd ccc tessellation is set to off and not let application decide.

Your result has the following problem(s) and will not be shown for example on leaderboards:
Benchmark tessellation load modified by AMD Catalyst driver, result invalid. Check your video driver settings. (What is this?)
Processor is not recognized (What is this?)
Graphics driver is not approved (What is this?)


Side Note:
53x Multiplier Validated. Woohoo!

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

 

Ah Jonny!
Sorry man, I was trying to move everything around to try to get a nice SS lol!
Yeh it seems it's the only way to compete with the Nvidia GPUs atm. Especially in 3d mark 11 or Vantage. Tessellation is done so much better with Nvidia GPUs atm.
I've noticed quite a big difference especially with Mr. Fox and Joker's benches. The comparison scores in Vantage are quite pronounced when the main difference is mainly the GPU and slight CPU clock speed difference. Nvidia is definitely on top in that one!

I would like to try and push for 30k in Vantage though. Although I may need some coaching.
I quickly had a try at 45x Multipliers but it kept BSODing when trying to load up into windows. Will try again another time.

Oh and awesome CPU score!
Back to FOLDING!
I can't wait to get my hands on some 7000M or 600M GPUs.

Cheers.

 

We can work on your 45x when your ready..

 

Dang you got a nice chip John.

 

That I do Brother Dr650se



Benchtech benchmarks.

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Unless I missed a post, here is the first 3DMark05 bench @ 28434 3DMarks

 

All scores posted.

 

Here's a benchtown for me...

 

Yep, Im gonna add that one to the bench list.

 

This CPU-Z validation thing sucks for me. Any time my multipliers are 34 and I capture 3.5-3.6GHz it fails. Only validates multipliers of 32 and a maximum of 3.3GHz. I'm guessing there is a bug with the i7-2760QM validation. It makes no difference what validation method I use. See attached.

 

John, I have gotten a little confused regarding the AMD CCC tessellation setting

What is our official stance on its use in benches? (all of them, not just 3DMark11)

 

I would like to rule it just like physx, but I don't know. I have some one testing both sides of that now. But for now, it's being accepted. 3dmark11 and 2.5 heaven are the big ones. It's why I didn't add heaven to the list.

 

Because if it has to be on for 3DMark11 (like PhysX has to be off for Vantage) pretty much all the 3DMark11 entries need to be scrapped haha

 

Freq : 3633.62 MHz (103.82 * 35)

Thanks for the help, brother John +1

 

Here's a new 3DMark11 score... Cumulative scoring below...

3DMark11: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P7579 3DMarks

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3DMark06: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: 23762 3DMarks

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Vantage: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P26538 3DMarks

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