*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

i have one on 3dmark.com...

yes sir

what stevie said..

 

I dont think ive seen anyone OC their 6990's to over 875 core....seriously overclocked figures there......anyone got a spare egg to fry??? - what are your gpu temps like with those clocks?

 

nice and cool.

 

John set a block of dice on those cards you might be able to pull a 900 core

 

Yous sure you live in Cali and not Antarctica?

 

got the cold air blowing right now.

 

You leave me no choice john......to the freezer!

 

you guys left me no choice..dual heat pipe!

 

I am about to blow some minds ...

Ok this is going to take some time, apparently 3dmark 11 is being a again so I have to upload pics to photobucket before i can post screens instead of giving links ... grrrr

But impressiveness is incoming

If anyone can get it to work ...
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1654559;jse...11/1654559?key=xLwbmv68dXUXPUm2qRxzC5dTNk5kw3

If not, screen caps, gottu grab some food for the woman first, but I have done some intensive testing...

 

you know that this will end on my sign right? you make me laugh big time + rep! (edit: as soon as i can rep again)

 

So stock for stock what are the differences between CF6970 and 6990 given same CPU? Has that been established? Early predictions were 25%

 

Immortalized in signature.....now I am famous

 

10-15% at most

 

Hmmmm seems like more? Maybe I am not pushing My OC enough. I think I am doing 850/1050 and only getting like 7400 3dmark11. Maybe my 2720 is holding back....
Stock clocks are 6400ish all sliders to the left...

 

It's not more, look at stock Vantage GPU scores.

 

My bad, it's actually 15-20%, sorry for the confusion.

 

i didn't know you stopped being famous.

 

OK ... heeeeereererere we goooooooooooo.

Clocks 865 1175
Overall score 7770
GPU Score 8917


Clocks 865 1200
Overall Score 7786
GPU Score 8958



Clocks 870 1200
Overall Score: 7815
GPU Score 8998 !!!!




Thats it folks ... 7815 GPU 8998,
All with a 2630

 

P27597 was my best. I think Johnksss is KING of the 6990m hill. Good Job.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m18x/574780-official-alienware-m18x-benchmark-thread-88.html

 

Ok ... for a little bit of the process.

Driver: 11.7 (haven't installed any CAPs)
Room temp: quite cold, its the room with my AC in it, set to 62 F
OCing Prog: Sapphire Trixx
Clocks: as I noted 870 Core 1200 Mem.
Fan Control: HWinfo64, Fans set to max
Other Mod Programs: Game Booster (this adds a few points about 100 last I checked, at least on my system, on others with lots of RAM and CPU power, it might not)

The process: HWinfo64 WILL LOCK your computer, BUT, you can get off 1 run on every boot.

I reboot the computer, exit Alien FX, Start HWinfo64 and crank the fans to max, turn on my Overclock settings with trixx, then run Game booster. Wait a few seconds for the fans to get the system as cold as possible, then run 3dMark 11.
I do not run anything else, including GPU-z. On some screen shots I have turned it on afterward just to log my Clocks although Trixx would have done this as well I suppose.

You can not run another bench after your first one, 3dMark11 Simply hangs, you have to reboot. However, HWinfo64 will make your reboot hang as well. So you have to hard power off. Then restart the process and up your clocks a little.

Hope this helps some peoples out there... Its annoying and takes forever to have to shut down and reboot between runs .. especially when pushing your limit when the runs fail on you ... but there it is.

 

Phenomenal Work... I'm in auh..... I bow to the masters and here is my rep point.

 

Those reboots and taking forever....that is where an SSD comes into play, not for the benches but the constant rebooting that benching and overclocking requires haha

 

Agree scook. Which is why i paid $95 for a 40gb ssd. Only had to RMA it once . ..So far

 

Amazing score, Bro!!! Suddenly 9k is not that unreal anymore Will rep u when the system lets me.

 

i rep'd him for ya'll...

good job!

side note:

i got 5 ssd's now. can't live with out them...

side note:

sam, can you run some wprime 1.55 and see what the max multi is? thanks.

 

Lol. I have 5 ssds as well. 2x256 2x160 and 1x40. Been meaning to get another for my wifes notebook, but than again, she wouldn't appreciate it.

 

First I am trying to figure out why Crysis benchmark keeps crashing

 

once she seen how fast that shopping page opened up...she'll know...lol

mine was crashing also.

 

I keep crashing at the start of the 2nd run out of 3

Very annoying

 

was crashing just trying to run it.

 

Now that you say that, definitely not getting her one Though she uses the R2 when Im not hogging it Haha.

Also, +1 Shaden, Nice job!

 

John, mine is hanging at 3.9 for like 2 seconds then dropping to 3.8 All multis are set to 42

I am also hanging in the high 80s low 90s with room temp cooling (I have the 2 pipe heatsink from dell stock)

 

By chance, did you remember to set Crysis benchmark to use Vista SP2 compatibility mode? If I don't do that it either will not load or crashes.

 

I did not do that but also have never had too. On the exact same install of windows and all programs it worked fine with the 6970s, with 6990s i get crashing

 

ok, that's what i wanted to hear..
i was debating on grabbing the more expensive cpu, but if you cant run all 4 cores at 4+ ghz...then no sense in me grabbing it then...

 

Why you think it is limiting us? Temps? Throw that SS on there and find out for us

Nvm....I see now, it is TDP, we are hitting that 80W limit in the bios with 3.8

Update: damit.....actually drops to 3.6 eventually! (and 74W) (although this one MAY be due to temps....)

 

I've always had to do it, on my M1730, R2 and the M18x... funny how some systems are different than others. Anyway, BDRacing was hitting 100FPS with his system... Here's the run I just finished.

 

seems to be no way around that.

 

Not until we can increase the bios past that 80W limit, nope. Looks like we will have a pretty even playing ground on the 2920xm....everyone gets 3.8 GHz

Just like the D901c all over (might as well be)

So instead of sitting in the basement like a hermit....I am looking at getting another chest freezer, just a little 5.0 ft^3 one for dedicated benching lol - only $179 at home depot! I can afford that in like a month and a half.... (broke from just getting an engagement ring)

 

well congratz on that!!

 

Thanks!

Being poor is no fun though haha

 

it never is..

 

Scook I have one of those, ... can you really put this beast in the freezer and still run it !?!?

 

yes you can!

get ta benchin'

 

hahaha I think the time I put in today was enough ... but there is tomorrow ..actually its a bar fridge with a freezer in the top ... but I wonder if this thing will even fit in it ... ???

Anyway ... does anyone have a link to the discussion about OCing the 2630 ??? I think I want to do that tomorrow too I know there was a discussion here about it ... but the search on these forums blows ...

*edit Got it ...

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m18x/599225-help-overclock-intel-core-i7-2630qm.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/560044-m17x-r3-overclocking-sort.html

Awesome GPU scores BTW

Cheers.

 

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Now thats what I'm talking BOUT!

Awesome Johno!

Cheers.

 

thanks sir!

 

@johnksss: Wow, now that's a M18x benchmark... been waiting to see such scores