nodeffect use that to increase your voltages
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wow, thanks a lot for the software. Just another question, how do i know what voltages to use? can I use 1.3 on 3.0GHZ?
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TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso
All this talk of the NB copper mod, RAMsinks, heatsinks all over the place. Is there any evidence of any component getting so hot that there's a degrade in performance? The only thing I've seen that's causing an honest to goodness performance degrade are the voltage issues that Z is investigating.
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so far 4 reports of no stuttering
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the nb is heating. regardless of what it says its spiking. its like sucking rocks through a straw
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3.9Ghz running right now with no stuttering. temps topping out in the 70s.
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going to OC the GPUs again.
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wow mandrake, thats crazy. You should do a benchmark on both vantage and '06.... the scores will be amazing. btw, what voltage are you using to OC in 3.9GHZ ?
I can't OC my GPU using the GPUTool Community Technology Preview 1, my system will hangs and my screen turns black. I'm so pissed with that cuz all of you can use that without problems. I guess my GPU has some problems cuz when I open up GPU-Z, The speed is 250 on GPU and 400 on memory on the second page. but the second GPU was fine. -
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100 points shy of my M17x score.Attached Files:
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Not getting stable runs at 4Ghz. too cold to keep testing.
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cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher
holy jesus those scores are insane....I have finals and am gone all day and THIS is what I miss....!
Z, can you send me that wonderful new BIOS per chance? I am going to be buying an M17 soon to have some fun time with....can't let Mandrake have ALL the fun -
okay i may re lock the voltages to a certain extent though as i dont want people frying stuff on my behalf. ill keep 2 different ones for those that want each.. ill be posting this prob tomm once i finalize it but so far it seems like everyone is liking it. the stock .29 was better than .28 to start with then adding the stuff from .28 into this one and playing a bit more i hope we made some progress. please check all features such as charging etc and make sure everything is okay before i release it
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edit shinj still stuttering. so this may have been moot after all but i hope not. it will be available for those that want to upgrade. but i cant do much more without a system in my hands for further testing. im going to call my freind and see if i can "borrow" his again but he doesnt seem willing to part with it this time around
please let us know if you are. honestly after this there is little more that can be done on this end without opening and modding directly the board imo.. i say still its a voltage issue from the board itself with the quads.
if flex release a .30 maybe we can do more but i was told a while back that that will not happen. but will watch for it. remember i an only change so much. i cant fully re write the whole thing i can only make some changes to whats already there with the tools i have here. so it doesnt go to far.. know what i mean -
just a suggestion, it will be nice if the boot up screen is like the original alienware B14 bios where you will see the alienware logo when startup.
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i posted a guide for the M!7x and its the same way for the M17 to my understanding
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last time i added a new splash screen to the .28 and tried it it bricked the system i had to use crisis to recover it. so be careful the same thing happened with the compal phoenix bios'
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yea, but I dont want to mess up my BIOS, I'm too afraid to edit myself lol.... hope z factor is here to save me
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check into size of the picture , format , and complexity.
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post a pic of what you want in there. ill give it a shot. has to be a somewhat simple pic since there is not a whole lot of room left, also it may interfere with the oem slic table in that area
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http://www.photoend.com/data/media/177/alienware-black-head_wallpapers_1640_1024x768.jpg
and of course, the "F10-boot menu and F2-Bios setup" text at the bottom of the screen
if it's too complicated and take up too much space, tell me, I can photoshop it and make it more simple.
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cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher
no offense to anyone here, but maybe you should take this conversation to pm's or a seperate thread, dont want to dilude the original purpose of this thread
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actually agreed. im on the way out for a while but ill look at it later. i may have to degrade the image some to fit though we'll see
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pbe CAN NOT change the splash screen in this bios period just fyi.
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O i wasn't sure ... I just now it worked on mine
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m17x bios different animal
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Thanks for the voltage tip Mandrake! Stress tested for 5 mins w/ XTU, works fine
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Rengsey R. H. Jr. I Never Slept
How come you guys get all the fun with the QX9300 !!
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lol someone needs ln2 or dice on one of these..ill bet 5+ is capable
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ok, I can't overclock my CPU furthermore, the maximum speed is only 3.06ghz. I tried the multiplier and the host clock frequency and its not working, I get BSOD or unstable system in windows. Thats kinda sad. but overall I'm glad that it runs at 3.06ghz very stable and no stuttering anymore. Now I need to try to overclock my GPU cuz I failed overclocking it, it's very frustrating. If anyone of u guys knows any good software to overclock the GPU, please tell me, cuz I'm using GPU tool CPT 1 and it fails everytime. Myabe not suitable for my 4850 crossfire?
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I realllly want a qx9300 now that .29 fixed the stuttering.. It's been torture trying to use AE w/ this dual core.. so damn slow
500 bucks for a processor.. ugh lol
maybe I'll ask for money from everyone I know for my birthday lol, how's the NBR marketplace? will the x9100 fetch ~ $275 nowadays? it's an ES but apparently a good one -
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cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher
Hmmm, if they just unlock the M17x BIOS, then I may not need an M17....haha
M17 OC Benchmarking - The Next Generation!
Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Mandrake, Dec 11, 2009.