*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

yeah, me too.

 

Anyone here have 580m SLI and a 2920xm that can do a vantage/11 run at 4ghz with your everyday gpu overclocks?

 

I give up I'll never come close to John's record and I'm not ready to put my laptop between steaks and ice cream

@johnksss Absolutely insane congrats !

 

Awesome, you got an 870 / 1200 run off as well.

Are you using something for fan control or just some cooling of some sort ?

 

Using the AC to get that GPU stable John?

I have not decided how I will approach sub-ambient cooling yet

 

I got a Dice pot Could borrow that, though it's only one pot

 

I was thinking either portable AC or chest freezer

After I am not poor any more I may get that small chest freezer just for benching haha

Of course the fact that absolutely no one wants to buy my very well priced desktop parts is not helping anything along

 

Scook What about benching on the porch at wintertime and killing some ssd's

 

Well it is not winter yet, and that is behind me now Speedy....bringing up old crap lol

 

Don't get me wrong.

 

Dayumm John! Nice runs +1 I really need to get my hands on a 6990m for my R3, with the runs I threw with a 6970m 17k or possibly 17.5k is very doable looking at that.

 

portable air works pretty good. going to try some dice later today though

 

John, given that we will hit the TDP threshold using multipliers alone, do you still think it is necessary to boost the bclk when overclocking (obviously on the 2920xm)? The memory alone should be enough of a reason should it?

 

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11 hundred for a QS?? Insane! In a month two from now we will have OEM for that price, lol

 

it all helps. bclk is a system wide over clock. but what's good about there is....they can do 90 percent benching while just sitting on the desk. gotta love that.

 

erg so I got a 3dmark11 run off at 870 1210 ... but it actually gave me a slightly lower score ...

I can't seem to push my core clock over 870 ... its not a temp issue, temps are fine, but 3dmark11 simply wont start. The starting screen pops up with the sideways moving bar, and it just hangs on that screen .... any thoughts ?

 

Well.....at 3.8 GHz on all cores.....I can still hit 90c without using AC or freezer lol - that is fans maxed on laptop and the Cryo (still have the bottom cover installed though)

 

Yeah, it hit 97C+ and throttled down when I ran Wprime1024 at those clocks and stock cooling

 

So I feel like a third wheel here with the 580 SLI but as a point of reference where are we with 580 SLI? I been sorting through this chain and I only found a few of 580M's most of which don't post benchmarks.

I'm going to be running:

Vantage
3DMark 2011
Heaven Dx11 2.5

Anything else hot right now to have some comparison?

 

The 580's are not to popular here as you note but there is some benchmarks on the clevo forum they are quite impressive

 

feel free to bench your 580's here!

 

that's all normal stuff. means the laptop is holding its own on it's cooling.

 

Well here's my small contribution to the overpopulated world of ATI

 

Congrats on the scores man you are special on this overpopulated world of poor people we can't afford 580's

 

Well I didn't pay an extra dollar for them if it makes you feel better, that said... Poor people don't even browse this thread let alone buy 3k laptop (or own an ALX and an M18x) i'm just sharing some benchmarks in a thread that suggest doing so.

 

Outch that hurts even more you are one of the lucky people who get them for free as you see I love Nvidia graphics but not the prices now if you didn't pay extra .......

that is the sad part sometimes we have no money but we still use that credit card on special situations
feel free to post all the benchmarks you want because this thread is intended for that and congrats on getting such a nice machine

 

Take no offence i'm clearly joking, I wish my ALX was half the machine you got....

As far as 580GTX SLI, I feel dumb even having this setup, seems like the 6990M are smoking it regardless of being cheaper... so not sure exactly why the 580m aren't the ones costing less.... oh well

 

Nice figures there!! - good to see some 580m benchies.....mind you, LOOK AT YOUR WEI score .........you SOOOO need to get a 2960xm cpu....thats the only blemish LOL

 

You don't have to feel that way if the 580's prob to be better in a lot of games and since you didn't pay extra is amazing also you can flash your cards and up the voltage something we cant do you also have cuda and physx

 

Thanks lol yeah my XM is my bottleneck, amazing...

ATI cards aren't flashable? as far as cuda and physx, anyone cares? lol to me they are just gimmiks

 

no...heat is.

and looking at your fid...that should be in the 40's+ at least on one core.

side note:

 

How do I get the Fid in the 40? (your numbers are insane btw)

 

John, how the hell are you getting your gpu clocks so high?!

 

John are you finding if you drop the mem clocks you can clock the core higher ???

 

Super lucky! I burned up my gpu trying to get that score!! My oc was limited to 815/1050. No more. I ve just get new spare of gpu and I think I ll stay far from oc for a while.

 

I just love the " Side Note " bit.....then BAM, 'ave summa that! lolol

 

Yeah lol, a picture for "stfu noob and learn how to OC" hahaha

 

Headed to pick up my R2 at Fedex in and hour. Dell had super quick turn around time. Hoping I hot a better mobo this time.

One another note, Verizon Fios is dealing with a strike. Waited over three weeks for installation and two days before i get a call saying its now to be determined. They seriously need to hire scabs. I can't even call customer service because the don't have any one working there. Bi%#hs. Ill continue being bored /rant

Scook, are you using any other cooling get? when do you plan to hit the freezer? That should help a bit. I think Johns on the a/c

John if you can hit 885mhz with 1120 shaders, my 6970s should be able to hit 900mhz. That will be my new goal.

 

Interesting. Are you sure you are running the RAM at the right speeds/latency?

I just ran the PerformanceTest out of curiousity, here are my results. I didn't stop any background processes and had a web browser, steam, etc. open so i'm sure this isn't a peak score either, this is Kingston HyperX 1600 running at a slight overclock due to higher BCLK, using XMP Profile 2:

 

thinking of replacing mx17 with 18 any words of caution?

 

Just two...RGB FTW!

 

the m18x screen is fantastic with great viewing angles.

 

over clock you cpu from bios. set it and go...

they have to be cold, you know that.

depends on the bench..not all clocks work good across all benches.

LOL

not at all..it was because i didnt want to keep posting multiple post.

should be do able...just watch the condensation from your pot when doing so...

 

not to burst anyone's overclocking bubble, but i have to get some truth out there. if you are only using 3dmark11 and heaven benchmark to test for OC stability, you need to go the extra mile.

i can put these 6990m's at 850+ core easily and pass these tests all day long. but as soon as i launch crysis 2 dx 11 ultra settings there are artifacts. at the end of the day i had to get off my high and come to a realization that a core of 825 is max for my cards since i care about stability more than anything.

 

were not here for stability, were here for numbers! Scoreboard baby¡!¡!¡!¡!

 

i think maybe your getting benching mixed up with quality benching. these numbers are pretty much for speed only! the whole purpose of spending on these cards was to NOT have to over clock to play a game. if you have to go into ccc and start changing stuff..you will NOT get the right settings in most games. and the list to this stuff goes on and on...

 

Luckily, this is the, "benchmark," thread and not the, "stable 24/7," thread.

 

John can we see your benching set up ? some pics that will be interesting

 

Yes the cards are flashable we just can't manipulate the voltage , if you don't care about cuda and physx can we trade ?