*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

Do most overclockers overclock their RAM? I was reading about it and it seems fairly easy.

 

Not all cards overclock the same, this time I may have gotten the short straw.

 

yes they do, on desktops its definitely a popular item. overclocking the m18x automatically overclocks the ram . the ram multiplier on the m18x might need to bios re-coding but apart from that no problems!

 

ye, my run was @ 865/1180 but its not stable in crysis . i have 840Mhz stable in games.

 

finally after countless of attempts i finally broke the 30k mark for 3dmark06 but still unable to get 8k for 3dmark11. came short of 40 pts.



ive passed my previous 3dmark11 score by only 10 pts.
P7957

 

WOW 30k huhs in 3d mark 06! AWESOMENESS!!!

Looks like Steviejones was right on the money!

Cheers.

 

wow 30k! there is not way you can do that with the green teen

 

Haha - I did think that 30k was possible with these beasts with OC.....my stock was about 25k so with OC, bound to push 30k I thought!

Amazing figures...even though 3dmark 06 is an oldie as a benchie its still a goodie lololol

And bloody hell GreaseMonkey!!!......cpu clock of 4400ghz+........your gonna burn that thing right outta the bottom of your lappy! lol

 

Kinda OT here but crikey, your coming up for the 10,000 post mark!!!! - thats alot of typing there fella - hope NBR throw you a party or give you a bottle of bubbly hahaha!

 

Hey Scook why you don't test your cards individually to see witch one is not overclocking good and then call dell

 

actually, i OC'ed it to the max to 4.8GHz yesterday. i used some external cooling and some pure cold air from mother nature. i placed my laptop outside with the cryo lx. outside temps was around 6'c.

and now i have downclocked it back to factory OC 4ghz.

 

That was how I got a lot of my early records

Before the chest freezer....lol

I would dress up like an eskimo and go sit on my front porch in 10f weather to bench for hours haha

And speedy, on my to do list

 

Hey guys, I haven't gotten anywhere yet with benching or OCs. My system came with a bad keyboard, a number of keys jam. Dell is doing a return. I don't know if I will wait a couple of weeks to see what June brings? The 560 doesn't interest me though.

 

i did it before with my m17x r1. it was -18'c outside. took out the battery and begin benchmarking, my QX9300 had the lowest temp I've ever seen on a system. it was 3c, 4c, 2c, 4c. my 280s was 24c and 28c

 

Ya the trick is just to not let it get TOO cold as I learned. Also have to be careful of condensation when you go back inside after benching

 

Sorry to hear... since E3 is so close it's worth the wait...

 

i usually turn off my system before goin into the house again. I plugged out the battery n the PSU. then let it sit inside until the next day.

 

When I am done with the cold benching, I take out battery and AC so the system has NO power source. I then leave it open and on its side to "defrost" for about 6 hours before powering it up (so long because humidity freezes into a frost all over the laptop that is pretty scary haha)

I am skittish because I killed my first SSD this way

 

lol 4.8 GHz nice! thats insane

 

I will be testing how hard I can push my 2920xm once I get the new thermal paste in and re-paste it. I am hoping to see 5 GHz in a laptop!

This is also my 10,000th post I have the 18th most posts on this forum apparently! (that is a benchmark right?)

My girlfriend was even excited for me lol

 

the max is 4.8ghz and it wont go higher than that. i've tried it maxed out the cores to 45 each.

im gonna change my paste too. just found out i still have 2 more AS 7s lol

 

So you have full control of all the multipliers in the bios?? You can do 4.8Ghz on all four cores?? O_O

congrats on the scores btw!

 

Have you tried using ThrottleStop to go past the bios limit? Might work

 

no. haven't tried it. but will do. btw wot thermal compound are u using?

 

Just noticed that you are only 2hrs drive from me! Now I know why the temps in Calgary went up so drastically during the past few days - from your benching, lol

 

lol. i noticed the amount of rain that was pouring for the last few days. my heat melted the snow in the rockies thus makin it rain more.

 

I will be using OCZ Freeze. They all perform very closely I have just found the price/convenience for me was best with OCZ Freeze

 

im returning my laptop >: )

 

Why not sell it to me for half price.

Why are you returning it?

 

to properly compete with the top scores, the 2720qm aint cutting it

 

Welcome to benchmarking lol

You never "need" those extreme processors...that is, until you start benching! The best game of all

 

nm, i got a $200 discount instead and will now just get an ES from ebay :tongue:.

 

Ya, they really like avoiding returns - it can be quite lucrative

 

yea plus, you might not get the 6970 like the one you have right now. but if u want to return it let us switch the 6970. u can have mine! lol

 

decided im gonna go w/ keeping my system. dells additional discount on top of my "sale" price + epp discount + this new discount is just too good.

ill buy an ES and beat your 11 score soon enough . There are already unlocked 2820QM on ebay for $350 hehe.

 

Dell offered me nothing to keep mine. They must have thought it was too messed up to keep.

 

haha yea i already talked to that person on evilbay a few times shirley i think it was, about them. Caught my eye too when the ad said better than 2820 similar 2920, i was like what the heck is this ?

 

E3 Expo: June 7-9, 2011

That is not too long to wait.

 

cant wait for them to reveal the new gpus.

 

I wish some time they organize an E3 (or something alike) in the 'big apple...'

 

TRIXX locks mine.

The 4th test in 3D Mark Vantage crashes. However it worked a few days ago before I started tweaking.

This is what I get for trying to bump my benches. It still games just fine so I'm not too worried but I still want to try it again this weekend when more time is available.

 

technically your score is 8103 in 3D Mark 11 nobody cares about overall score
As lately we relied on GPU score to measure vantage performance

 

Well, flashed the original vbios back (had a dirty one I think) and ran a Crysis benchmark with all settings Very High, DX10, No AA, 1920x1080 and got 60 fps average (stock GPUs level 3 CPU)

This is a beast! I will get the screenshot up tonight forgot to upload it last night

 

Yes, the thing is a monster, even my 2630qm+CF is ~50fps in Crysis

 

I am redoing a clean Windows 7 install and need to confirm the installation procedure for the video driver(s). I am following Batboy's driver installation, but wonder if I can install the AMD 11.5b driver, instead of the Dell driver, at the same point in Batboy's list? And should I then install the Cap2 patch immediately after the AMD driver? Then continue on as outlined by Batboy?

 

You can install CAP 2 whenever you want. Install the drives instead of the dell drivers. They should work fine.

 

yes go ahead with 11.5b, dont install dells crap. you get a warning because the drivers are not officially WHQL (certified by microsoft).

 

Thanks guys!

 

That's a great compay scook9! Can you please upload a vid,thank bro.

 

I can take and upload a video but it will just show the benchmark running at much faster than expected speeds haha

I will get the screenshot up for sure