*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18xR1/R2/18 Benchmark Thread - Part 3

Old run I never officially posted. Nothing we haven't seen before but it should quality for the leader boards for a short while.

Physics score isn't great either.

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T-Bone, that is pretty impressive, are you using a dual PSU set-up?

 

Thanks Bro, nah just a single PSU.

I'm getting a little frustrated now though. I'm now getting some whopping physics scores after a fresh paste but every run I've done the GPU scores haven't been great and brought the score down. We'll get there


Intel Core i7-3920XM CPU @ 4513.5MHz - 907 XTU marks on HWBOT



Close to the thermal limits until I start moving my desk outside lol

Update 2:

Firestrike Extreme score 5066 - to add to the leader boards brother Fox or brother Johnksss until you open a can of whoop a$$

 

Meanwhile I am only getting 694 marks. Although that is to be expected with the processor I have.

 

Try it. No effort and you'd be able to re paste the cards. Do both cards.

 

Valid Futuremark Link: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930K,Notebook P570WM

 

Not as high as Q56, but still working on it. lol. Am hanging around
Brother Fox though.
11577 Firestrike
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3940XM,Alienware M18xR2
5878 Firestrike Extreme
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3940XM,Alienware M18xR2
6899 3dmark11 Extreme
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3940XM,Alienware M18xR2
17257 3dmark11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3940XM,Alienware M18xR2

 

Right on! Glad to see you back in the benching saddle again, Brother John.

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930MX,Alienware 01W2J2

first time i broke the 15k barrier

 

Thanks sir!
I feel like a xmas noob!

 

Go john Go! Beautiful 3dm11. I like that one best. Over 21k gpu score!

 

looks like rebrand from both amd and nvidia
wait for ddr4 2015 lets GO

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930K,Notebook P570WM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930K,Notebook P570WM

 

Those are some sweet numbers, scarletfire.

 

Thanks Mr.Fox. My son graciously declined my offer as he just bought one of those big gaming consoles; I think it's called a x360.

 

Glad to see you still haven't lost interest in benching. He doesn't know what he's missing out on, but that's OK.

 

That's actualy very impressive!

 

Thanks, I appreciate that.

 

Here's one I haven't tinkered with for a good while.

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I'd like to see what this looks like with the 4930K CPU. Should be interesting. Anyone hitting this kind of CPU core clock speed with the P570WM yet?

 

hey, i just loaded that. let me check it out.

 

From what I remember of Aquamark, it's a tweaker's dream, that likes certain video cards, and could care less about SLI or 6 cores. I'll run it though and see.

 

dont think its possible to go that high without cooling support like AC or liquid TIM. meaker got it to 4.3 though

 

Meaker, Q56_Monster and scarletfire have all had good luck with 4.3GHz in the P570WM, which is also a piece of cake for 2nd and 3rd Generation XM CPUs. Things start to get more exciting at 4.5GHz and higher.

The latest version from HWBOT.org makes it easier. You have to set the CPU core affinity and it provides the UI to do that when you launch it. Video cards don't help too much. This is an old test from back in the day when the CPU did all the heavy lifting. 3DMark05 and 3DMark06 are similar. In fact, cranking the overclock on GPU might even give you a lower score. Notice John's GPU clock speeds.

 

thing is intel will start limiting these CPU and we cant overclock them at all. hit 4.5 and it starts to go unstable.

 

I know. It really sucks. It's not "what they want for us" because having extreme performance options slows down the adoption of their cheap low performance garbage for the masses. So, we can have whatever we want as long as it is what they want.

 

Q56 and me get 4.5GHz. easily.

 

Yes, I had seen that. Have you had any luck with 4.7-4.8GHz yet?

 

WOW! You Guy Are The Best.

 

No Mr.Fox I don't think the 4930K will go past 4.5 GHz. in a laptop without instability. Maybe Q56 has passed 4.5GHz.

 

New Fire Strike scores...

Fire Strike: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3920XM Processor Extreme Edition,Alienware M18xR2 - 11039 3Marks	Fire Strike Extreme: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3920XM Processor Extreme Edition,Alienware M18xR2 - 5744 3Marks

 

It will not let you go higher on gpu score for performance?

 

Yes, I still have more voltage, core and memory left to play with. I do have the power limit maxed out, though.

I think I am going to go back to my previous driver. It did a nice job with Fire Strike, but 3DMark11 Test 1 and Vantage run like pure crap with this new driver. I noticed with Vantage the GPUs are randomly dropping core clock speed and voltage and I never saw that with the last driver.

 

this is why i hate benchmark lol having to test drivers etc.. I'd just go with a driver that works with my movie/videos and games, and oc it for higher fps thats about it. everything else is CPU + ram OC and nothing more.

 

I came across a Dragon Quest 10 benchmark. It's along the lines of Final Fantasy. It's very demanding to do watch your temps
The benchmark is only available in Japanese but its very straight forward to install. I've added a few screen shots so you can run the correct settings.

Download

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930K,Notebook P570WM

 

Tuning and tweaking things is part of what makes it fun and interesting for me.

This benchmark will not run in SLI for some reason. My screen goes black and computer locks up hard every time. Tried setting AFR1/2 and got the same thing. It works fine if I disable SLI.

Installing this without being able to read Japanese was interesting. It took a couple of tries before I guessed correctly about which buttons to click, LOL. This run is with stock GPU (SLI disabled) and CPU at 4.3GHz.

 

Dam that's abit of a bummer, especially since the original download link is from the nVidia Japan website (for shame ). Thought it would have been a nice goofy benchmark.

 

Did it work OK in SLI for you?

 

No it didn't but I didn't realize. I saw my clocks dropping on 1 card going into .9 voltage. I thought the GPU's weren't taking it seriously :laugh:

 

Hey Tbone, I'm curious, what kind of performance have you seen with just one 780M?

Reason for asking is that it is my understanding that the performance of 780M SLI is gimped primarily because of wattage starvation. There are few games I am currently playing that do not have SLI optimization, Planetside 2 being one of them. So I run the game off of one card. This has me considering selling my 680's and picking up a single 780M for now and quite possibly another one for SLI down the road, but I need to know what kind of performance increase I can expect, whether or not it justifies the astronomical $700+ asking price per card.

Update: I think I have an idea, I found a bench by Mr. Fox through google, single 780M.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7289088

I just ran a single 680M '11 bench for comparison, not that much behind Mr. Fox's single 780M:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7822578

+250 core/+500 memory @ 1.05 V.

Temps:

GPU: 74 C
CPU: 89 C across the board

I think I'm gonna wait for 880M.

680M SLI benches at +250 core/+500 memory in signature.

 

Well, this benchmark is not very good. It is inconsistent between runs and it seems to be a coding abortion. Some interesting observations from further tinkering...

Under Windows 7 it flatly refuses to run with SLI enabled for some reason. I have tried two different drivers and manually tweaking the SLI rendering modes and every time the screen goes black and I get a hard freeze in Windows 7. With SLI disabled it does not run at 3D clock speeds most of the time, but still scores higher than Windows 8.1.

It works with SLI enabled under Windows 8, but does not use SLI correctly. NVIDIA Recommended, AFR1 and AFR2 all return lower score in Windows 8.1 compared to Windows 7. Looks at the inconsistencies in these screen shots. It's humorous and sad at the same time.

Windows 7 - First Run - SLI Disabled Score: 20669	Windows 7 - Second Run - SLI Disabled Score: 19253
Windows 8.1 - SLI Mode AFR1 Score: 14754	Windows 8.1 - SLI Mode AFR2 Score: 18029
Windows 8.1 - SLI Mode NVIDIA Recommended Score: 19048	Windows 8.1 - SLI Mode Single GPU (disabled) Score: 18802

 

Lol what a pile of crud. Shame, I really like the game based benchmarks. *sigh* Oh well

I haven't experimented much at all pushing 1 card to the limits. I hit 9600 without much trouble, fiddling, or thermal restrictions. I might try and go for 10,000 when I have some time which I feel is 100% possible. These things really do OC like absolute beasts just like 680m's - they just keep returning good results when pushed.

Sadly with 2 of them that OCing fun is limited by the PSU as you may already know. 120/375 is about the limit and my overall score isn't much more than yours at those clocks since the PSU says 'no'. Right now they kind of remind me of a lazy 7.0 litre V8 that barley revs to hit a speed limit.
Temps are really good with them on the r2 by the way - none of this 80-90 degree stuff I've read about.

The best value for money mod I could do now is 2 x 330 PSU's. It's kind of a waste if I don't considering what could be. Do consider this seriously if you do take the plunge.
I really should have nabbed brother Harlons dual PSU when I had the chance. Dual PSU mod is next on my list. Not just to overclock, but for gaming too - these Skyrim mods drink and are the most god damn prettiest pixels I've ever seen.

 

What happened to Brother Harlon?! I haven't seen him on here in a while

Yeah I know 780M has some potential in it, unfortunately my budget precludes me from jumping on the next-best thing, I'm gonna have to wait until I can justify the upgrade, and that may be until Haswell:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M is rebranded GTX 780M, has 8GB memory | VideoCardz.com

I just did another '11 run with the system completely cold, new personal best!

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(+250/+500 @ 1.05 V)

First '11 run at 1.05 V, it seemed to like the additional voltage as the previous run was accomplished with the same clocks but at 1.025 V and I do remembering seeing just a little bit of artifacts.

Going to try Vantage.

I could probably get away with +300 core @ 1.05 V but I am finding that although I can bench at this clockspeed many if not all demanding games result in a driver failure. For example, my previous benches were +250/+500 @ 1.025 but many games would end up with a driver failure/black screen with those clocks at that voltage, so I feel it is a bit disingenuous and upped the voltage.

 

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On a roll tonight guys NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930K,Notebook P570WM

 

Wow! Good work buddy :thumbsup:

 

Hey thanks TBone

 

You guys need some competition here?)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4900MQ,Notebook P370SM3

 

sure, why not.

 

Tnx)



NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4900MQ,Notebook P370SM3