*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

Yea 85c on Idle.... now its idleing at 79c ... I am thinking it needs a repaste ... going to open her up tonight after I assemble the new treadmill

 

not a repaste...but you need to check how you screwed down the heat sink.

 

take a look at mine.

 

You think John ? what were you saying I needed to make sure of again ? the 4th screw ?

 

bump ? (never thought I'd need to bump this thread)

 

Shaden... Probably because everyone is saturated with L-tryptophan, LOL.

 

Yep! Specially skygunner27 hahaha, lol.

 

Shaden: do not put to much thermall grease, for better results.

 

it took me a minute to get it back the way it should be. i had to hold it down in the center and then start screwing the screws in place.

 

So let's see how she does once you get things running cool again.

Here's another stock Vantage run...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P23469 3DMarks

 

god know how many time i repasted this CPU ..
gotta agree with others that we have to be careful screwing down the HS in (1-4) order to get a better surface of the compound.

this is my idle temp average 46*C
and we using the same CPU 2920XM-ES2
my room temperature is pretty high 30*C++ without AC (got a modded Notepal U3 underneath my laptop)

 

Aeight HOPEFULLY tomorrow I find some time to actually do this ... Wife has me shopping and decorating and all sorts of stuff on top of the fact that this is the busiest time of year for me ... finishing off the semester and marking like mad.

Anyway ... thought I would share here too ...

Just ordered Crucial M4 128GB and 8gb Kingston Hyper X 1866

Going to be an awesome christmas break I think

 

I think that I've got the GTX 580M SLI throttling problem in the rear view mirror now...

3DMark 11: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P7002 3DMarks

Vantage: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P24978 3DMarks

3DMark06: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P23034 3DMarks

Will have to take a run at Heaven and see how that goes next.

 

OK, this is also a slight improvement with P0 and P1 set at the same states.



Isn't it amazing how much better stuff looks with DX11?

 

Good to hear Fox

Great scores btw!
I'm gonna have to do some benching later. Hopefully the new Dell driver isn't too far away.

Cheers

 

Hey guys,

Just so you know, ran vantage on my rig on Performance and got a GPU score of 32040 with no overclock with my GTX590. That is incredible performance from an SLI 580M setup as I saw scores higher than 33000 on this forum
Performance would be close to or on par with a desktop SLI 570 setup.

When my R2 dies on me (which it won't since I clean it inside/out every 2 weeks), I will join the M18X crew. Also, why is there no 120hz screen on the 18"?

Great community and thanks for the 320+ pages of reading

 

johnksss pushes those 580m's pretty hard, doesnt he? (he is the master of OC, of course!)

I imagine the lack of 120hz is down to manufacturer - who makes an 18.4 120hz laptop screen? - cost could be prohibitive to Dell but I would HOPE that we will see one at some point...till then, an external 3d screen is the only option....maybe something like the OptX 120hz AW monitor (or any 3d ready flat screen tv)

 

Haha yeah Johnksss sure knows what he's doing.
And yeah, I didn't think of price behind designing and constructing a 120hz screen for a single laptop. Makes sense

 

Awesome killer score BRO! Now thats what I'm talking bout lol!

I can't wait to see what Johnksss pulls off with the new set of GPUs coming out in a few months.

Cheers.

 

Here is my 2x6990m with No Tess:

 

That is great man!

 

Ok ... ugh. I first tried just pressing down and tightening all the screws, no go. Then We repasted, tightened all the screws while holding down the center of the heatsink on the CPU ... still idleing too hot ... then we repasted again, but only cranked down the left side of the cpu, and slightly tightened the right (the pattern when we pulled off the heatsink was that there was uneven paste build up, as if it was not all forced out of the bottom left corner, the paste job itself was perfect) ... idled at around 77 ... just opened it back up, cranked down the screws on the right. Idling much cooler in general ... in the 60s ... but some cores spike to 70s .... not ok. This is frustrating beyond belief ...

Did put in my new Hyper X RAM ... only bonus. Have my ssd waiting, but going to figure out this CPU crap first.

***repeat image deleted (Shaden)


Thats idleing ... well, using internet explorer ... flat on a table, room is 20C.

 

cant really see the screen shot

 

hrm, try this link ...

http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee425/Abetterplayer/CPUtemps2.jpg

 

nope. still to small...where did you host it at?

edit:
just leave it at normal size when you upload it. then thumb it in here.

 

Lets Try Again, this is running standard lvl 3 OC, just running IE, flat on a table top.

Like I said I am heading to bed, might have a few minutes tomorrow to look at it, but likely Friday or Saturday, busiest time of the year for me, marking and such. Exams right around the corner.


http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/1997/cputemps2.jpg

 

oh yeah, i can see that now.

 

Any thoughts ?

 

none as of yet. i was having major heating issues with mine. ever since i did a repaste. i should have left well enough alone.
but i think ill hold off sending it back till monday. so we can work on yours.

 

Well, I should be good to roll tonight ...and my temps are a little better than they were, but still weird at idle speeds

Wondering if its bios settings and not necessarily the contact of the HS to the CPU... but it could be either. I could try reseating it a couple more times and see what happens....

Back to marking for now.

 

PS ... it is idling perfectly right now on power saver

No OC on though

All the cores drop off to 8x in Thottle stop, Temps maxing at 56C ...

Soon as I kick it back to High performance, Multipliers rise back up to the 30s on idles and temps are over 70 on a couple cores.

Don't know if this will translate when benching, will have to see.

 

when you get a chance...load the factory bios and do a f9 in bios. boot and see what everything looks like then.

 

on A04 with default settings still idles as high as 74C flat on the desktop. in high performance mode of course. All cores idling at roughly 31.5X

Thinking I will pop back to unlocked a03 for benching.

 

My latest benchmarking results are in the ***Updated AMD Driver release scheduled by Dell shortly*** thread.

 

+rep for sure, nice work

 

Hey John If you wanna bench tonight drop me a line ... I should be good til about 1am my time ...

 

ok. looks like im not going anywhere at the moment.

 

lol aeight, I am going to throw my SSD in then, whenever we get to benching it will be faster that way

I had it running solid on 44x (not dropping out according to the log ... and still only getting 26500 on vantage cpu tests ... ugh ?

 

is that off the desk?

and that's only 4388 mhz

 

yea thats outside in the cold ... and yea, not that fast as I thought.

Question, trying to get the SSD in, got it in, in secondary hardrive slot (easier to change boot order) I have my original backup on a Mem Stick, and I have my CDs ... which should I boot from in order to install WIndows to the new SSD ? Or should I just clean install from CD ?

 

that is what i just did.
i put ssd on second slot.
put flash drive in
told bios to boot second drive first.
then started the install


also, if im taking long..hit my cell saying read nbr

 

Grrrr not letting me use flashdrive .... keeps erroring ... trying from cd

 

what is the error?

and how many computers do you have in front of you?

 

Computer and phone .... it was like 0000004a or something like that .... its working from cd though 50% done

 

ok, gotcha

 

Lol so windows install to ssd takes about 10 mins

 

yep.......

 

My new score with the latest dell drivers , slight improvement 3DMarkvantage : http://C:\Users\Robs-Beast\Desktop\AMD Radeon HD 6970M - 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score P25724 3DMarks.htm
And 3dmark 2011 http://C:\Users\Robs-Beast\Desktop\AMD Radeon HD 6970M - 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score P8106 3DMarks.htm

 

murphey1965... We cannot access the images on your desktop. You can upload them as attachments to your post or use a free service like ImageShack to host them with links or thumbnails for others to view them.

 

Could also sign up for a free on the 3dmark / futuremark website and submit them via vantage or 3dmark 2011 so all the details are visible.