*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

Late night is when I do all of my best work....

Would putting on the DICE while in the chest freezer make the DICE last longer? haha

 

Thx! they do look good considering it's stock paste/cooling. I'm amazed at how cool the 580M run! Hopefully I can get more juice in them to push them a bit higher.

 

Hey man, you'd better run 3dmark11 with CPU&GPU OC and add it to your signature

 

I need to download that, but from what I hear/read there's no point due to throttling at this time.

 

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. no more world records in sig's!..:laugh:

 

I never said world record in my sig...I just let the numbers speak for themselves

And John, I will be gunning for you once I got some DICE on hand. May have to wait until after next week. Have to prepare a 1 hour technical presentation for step 5 of 6 in an interview process. So far they like me!

 

we been waiting for you long time already I don't know if we can wait a week more lol.

 

time to remove my desktop runs because you are getting to close

 

what has changed? you been gunning for me since the beginning.

i been gunning for shadens dx11 gpu score & nicks wprime32 score...but they seem to eluded me at the moment.

 

As a teaser then.....I did 29k in 06 quick (needs more tweaking) and P27847 in Vantage. Only at P8291 in 11 though, need to get my GPU clocks higher for sure. Then I have to start looking at inf tweaks, because I know John is doing them

I also need to get my bclk and ram tweaked.

And John, I am pretty sure I dropped the "world record" from my sig a while ago (like Oct. 2009 when the 4870s came out). I let the numbers speak for themselves

I technically still have the fastest Core 2 based notebook scores in the world.....

 

this is the first time you have seen it in my sig. and it's for joking purposes only.(now i will post it in a post though..haha)
no tweaks just flat out speed and ccc
no inf tweaks either
and everything still running like a regular os.

 

I don't know if that should make me more comfortable or not then haha......decent gap between us (for now!). I only did one run of each last night. I still need to crank out the runs to get a high scoring one. Hopefully I am closer than I think

Benching is fun

 

what is your max over clock on gpu?
for starters...your using the wrong version of vantage.

and your cpu scores are damn decent...this is where im starting to see and understand what the difference is between the es and the oem.

side note:
not sure what your talking about! but for a first decent run..you took the second highest gpu score.

 

All this world record talk Makes me relish in the fact that...I still beat you with gen oone core-i in 1024, the one that counts! haha, j/k, or not. That run was the staple of my benching. But it's not long till you beat that. And that run was 4GHz on all cores.

Scook, you should hold a benching party, I'll bring the dice cup! Than you can take down John. Dice is fun in a cup full of acetone. Just straight cup to Die. Though without being able to adjust TDP, I'm not sure if the effort would yield enough gain. Though in benching the bottom line is gain=gain. Score boad baby.

 

yes, you guys should do that. could be fun for the both of you.

nick's score

 

Ok, ok John, I'm currently in the process of removing my athletes foot laden foot, out of my mouth. Thats some bitter medicine. +1, if I could again

Here are the records I want to see beat.

wPrime 1024 = 186.295 sec M18x R1
wPrime 32 = 5.663 sec M18x R1


Both done by mw86 over at T|I
Source

 

makes me almost want and oem. almost, that is..haha
i forgot i had an account over there.

how come no other records are up?

 

Johnksss, what drivers are you benching with currently ? Still 11.6 or what ?

 

11.8 is what im using

 

Now that's what i am talking about eating ice cream while benchmarking

 

John, what is different on the Vantage versions? I did have to update my 06, couldn't upload scores haha

And ya....I was pleased with my CPU performance Still need to get my video cards in shape though. I could not finish 11 at 855 core. 850 will finish at least some time (I have done all of 2 runs successfully at 850 core but have not devoted much time at all to benching yet)

 

i was surprised that it even took your vantage.

and this stuff is a crap shoot. ill get where runs will run fine...then next...lower clocks wont pass.

i just take it as is and keep moving.


speedy:
no ice cream buddy..

 

Yep, these are not consistent benches at all. Not like the CPU benches that are freakishly consistent. That is where benching gets frustrating, run a bench several dozen times just to get a "high" score. Never mind all the restarts after a crash in between runs.....

 

pretty much so....
i can't even re create this at the moment.

 

4.7ghz...that's insane.

 

I did not even know the bios could go beyond 45x......

nvm...I am a derp lol

 

Hey guys just installed 11.8 and OC'd the 2630 a little bit, some interesting results. A nice little jump in Vantage ... you can also see a GPU boost, not sure if this just because of the jump in CPU speed. BUT, I had read that with the 2630 the way the clocks are set in the Bios somehow slightly downclocks the GPUs as well so maybe this fixed it ...

Going to do serious benching tonight or tomorrow and see the results, hoping to break the 9K GPU score in 3d mark 11.

Scores: Stock > Overclocked
Vantage score 20686 > 21105 (nice 500 point jump)
GPU score 21991 > 22392 (400 point jump)
CPU Score 17560 > 18001 (441 point jump)


here are the pics ...

 

46x eh.....how?

 

Ok now you are just screwing with me.....

 

no, actually im not. it's possible, but at the moment...not proving beneficial yet.

 

Can anyone post the youtube clip of the step by step to OC the i7 2720. I know it isn't much but might be nice to know how to do.

 

[HD] Alienware M14X - Nebula Red with Soft Touch Finish - How to Overclock CPU.wmv - YouTube

I think this is a 2630, but hopefully it will still work for you ...

 

wonder is scook9 is having any luck tonight.

 

Here you go...

It does sort of cap at just over 4ghz (but most of the run is done at 3909mhz)



and final result:

 

so the oems are holding a 39x on all 4 cores....hummmm

 

well that's good! right?

BTW: What is the absolute max temperature that the 2920xm can tolerate?


and Johnksss, I'm on to you in 3DMark 2006 Seriously, I'm very impressed with the 580SLI! was not expecting this at all. (check out the temps! amazing)

 

on to me? you guys had these machines far longer than i...lol.
it's me who should be saying "i am on to you"

 

^ his job is "bencher madness" no match lol , 24/7 benching his awesomeness machine @@

 

Well you have the record! and I've had the machine for a whole 2 weeks, in any event, I'm pretty amazed at the results you get, so I follow your lead , take it as a compliment

 

ahh, so i had mine 4 days longer than you...lol

will do.

 

erm , my ome runs @ 4.7ghz 45x max I guess..

 

My ome is stuck at 45x unable to go higher. Ur ES chip is insane.

 

it's making me want an oem more and more though..









CPU-Z Validator 3.1

 

Actually did not even boot the laptop last night. Decided I wanted more than 5 hours of sleep for once haha

Like I said, I do not think I will be benching much until next week.

 

i hear ya.

i got some good runs in last night.
gotta say...it's slowly coming together.

 

Ya I still need to learn a lot about overclocking this platform (have not done much overclocking since Core 2 Quads haha)

I assume you are not bothering with vbios flashing at all? Just using Software (Trixx?)

 

just trixx. since we have no voltage control and vbios isn't really needed...plus changing on the fly allows for more to get done.