*OFFICIAL* Alienware M11x Benchmark Thread - Part 2

Thanks

DavyGT and nando4 helped me figure out how to OC the CPU, DavyGT has a whole thread on how.

I was able to hard mod mine to 2.0ghz added about 1k and my GPU OC added another 1k.

 

Just got my R3 off of the tech guys at work yesterday - they always do a clean reinstall and set up software and network access. Had to wait a full day for it.

Instantly started working off of battery only to test battery life. Using (mostly) the balanced power profile, installing and setting up extra stuff, browsing the web, downloading, playing music and video, ran a 3dmark06 test, on mid brightness most of the time, wireless on, alien fx lights on ... I got 4:45 battery life until hibernate (around 5% battery left I think).

3dmark06 results

on battery (assume Intel IGP) 3035
Result

Using 65W power supply from old Inspiron 4350
Result

Using proper 90W power supply 8392
Result

Haven't really optimised anything yet (other than the clean reinstall done for me)

Looking for free gaming benchmarks to download and test ...

edit:
Tried Crysis benchmark, didn't realise it requires the game, thought it was standalone ... any standalone game benchmarks I can try

3dmark11 90W P985
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1275409

 

The Resident Evil 5 benchmark is standalone.

 

Direct X 10 Resident Evil Benchmark(Fixed)
1360by768
Everything on High with no AA or motion blur using the GT540.
-Average of 71.2 with an overclock of 800/1600/1000
-Average of 67.6 with an overclock of 800/1600/900
-Average of 58.1 on the stock clocks of 672/1344/900

 

ohhhh..... so it does downclock on the lower AC adaptor. Well, so much for using my travel adaptor as a primary adaptor

 

How relatively well is this score in comparison to my laptop specs :8536

M11x R2
Core i7 640um SetpLL @180mhz w/ throttlestop multiplier maxed at 14x
335m Vbios mod @.95v OC to 605/1450/925 w/ EVGA precision
8gb of Ram
500gb Momentus xt

I've been doing everything i can think of to boost my m11x's performance, and i feel like, after all the modifications done, thats still a crappy 3dmark score.

Any opinions on what i can do?

 

That is above what most others have gotten. My I5 is in the 8300 for scores. Really just matters how well it performs during game time.

 

for a laptop of its size its not a "crappy" score by any means. you also would be hard pressed to find many other laptops in a 12" & 13" frame hitting scores like that.

if you want a laptop with a "real score", buy a bigger laptop (M14x) or wait a few years for tech to move along.

 

I would have expected > 9k with that.

I can't get over 164 on my CPU but maxing out EVGA gave me > 9k on 3Dmark06.

Here is post when i was messing with it and 3Dmark06 link

 

i dont think its a crappy score at all, i just expected a better score after all the modifications and over clocking i did to it. I was just wondering if a spec like that was normal to recieve a score like that

 

My signature shows my max stable 3DMark06 score... I say stable because I don't consider any settings that don't stand up to real use a good benchmark. Similar to yours, Sparky. If I clock my CPU / GPU more, games lock up. I see you have an i7. Since our scores are similar, I wager the i7 still isn't pushing data fast enough (??).

 

You're about 500-1000 points short of what is expected. What other modifications have you done? RAM SPD mod? Can we see the result page or individual scores to see where the deficiency lies? Are there any rogue processes consuming resources? Tassadar898 got 91xx from an i5 with similar GPU clocks so I expect you to be a few hundred points higher because of the CPU advantage.

I'll leave this here.

 

Thanks for the response Davy, and know i havent done SPD mod, im not quite sure how to do that, and ill look into tweaking some stuff.

BTW, off topic, i was stupid and i accidently uninstalled the 335m gpu from the device manager, and now i cant install drivers, games play like crap, and my computer doesnt recognize the gpu. it doesnt even show up with a yello exclamation

 

This is now driving me crazy - I just got my refurb i5 r2 and want to run some of these benchmarks and contribute... but running 3dmark06 forces the Intel HD GPU to be used. Even after whitelisting the proper exe's in the Nvidia Control panel, 3dmark06 keeps showing up as GPU: Intel HD..

Am I doing something wrong?

Running A03 stock bios, and rolled back to the supported Nvidia video driver from the dell.com site.

thanks!

 

3dmark always reports as using the Intel graphics, even when it is not. Unless your score is something really low, like 6000 or below, it is using your 335m.

 

@i has m11x

thanks! Man I've been uninstalling, reinstalling, you name it...

 

Ok, so given that I have just ran it:
Result

Was this a benchmark against my 335m for sure? - even the results show the Intel HD ...

 

That should be with your 335m. Are you using stock cpu and gpu settings? I think I overestimated a 3dmark score with the Intel. I believe it would be around 4000 or lower, maybe not even 4000. I can run a stock 3dmark06 run and post what I get. I have the i5 with 4GB of ram.

 

I guess it would help if I had it installed. I'm downloading it and I will let you know what I get in a while. Overclocking will help greatly though. I can get over 8600 with my cpu at 185 and gpu around 560/13xx/880.

 

Maybe your score is a little low. I got 6797 at stock settings.

Result

Notice that shows the Intel HD Graphics as the gpu. I think it does with all Optimus enabled systems. I am using the 260.99 Nvidia drivers.

 

Ok cool. Thanks for all the replies everyone. I just wanted to make sure I have a solid benchmark before I start doing some overclocking/afterburning/throttlestopping/arctic silvering

To be clear, mine is completely stock, no OC in bios or anything.


One quick question - in the Alienware control panel, do I need to make any changes to the default "high" profile, or should that not matter?

 

Forgot to mention - it looks like your driver version is newer, and after my results they were using a 3dmark non-supported driver version. I'll update my nvidia driver for the 335m and rerun the test. That may be useful for some people to know - whether or not the 3dmark score improves on stock configuration with the latest 335m driver.

edit: it looks like the latest drivers are "270.61".. is there any reason you stuck with the 260.99?

 

I have better stability when I overclock with these drivers. The 270.xx drivers give me a blue screen at lower overclocks compared to 260.99.

 

Just upgraded to the new Nvida driver and finally broke the 10K mark. Check out the results:

Result

Core Clock: 837
Shader: 1674
Memory: 1080

M11x R3, i7 2617M, 8GB DDR3, 160 GB SSD

By the way, I can also verify that you don't need the modified inf file for this driver.

 

Thats awesome!

Congrats!

 

you sir are THE FIRST! congrats! +1
was it stable or did you see any artifacts?

 

Thanks, I saw a few artifacts in the firefly and deep freeze benchmarks. I have to drop the core clock to around 825 to be artifact free. This of course drops me below the 10K mark. When I have time, I'll throw some 3D mark 11 benchmarks up.

 

finallyy niicceeee!!!!!

 

Here's some 3D Mark 11 and PC Mark 7 benchies:

Result

Result

My i7 is overclocked to the max and my GPU settings were:

Core: 825
Shader: 1650
Memory: 1080

No artifacts were observed.

 

Imageshack - 59320206.jpg

max stable i got

this is the i7 R3

 

my max

7752

1.9ghz CPU SU7300 (pinmod)
580/1405/860

 

M11x R2 Corei7 8gb bus speed: 170 (+ Throttle Stop)
GPU with BIOS vmod 0.95v: Core: 510; Shader: 1224; Mem: 948

All 100 % artifact free and gaming stable.

3DMark 06 Score: 8519
Link: Result

 

So far on my r3 I just received last week:

3dmark 06
540M @ 800/1080 = 9623 marks Result

Vantage (physX = cpu)
540M @ 672/900 = 4328 marks Result
540M @ 800/1080 = 5088 marks Result

3dmark 11
540M @ 672/900 = P1054 marks Result
540M @ 800/1080 = P1241 marks Result

I'm going to run 11 and 06 with the overclocked settings and report back. I'm unable to get 805+ core to run without crashing the display drivers.

 

how well performs the r3 above the r1 (stock clocks @everything) Im planning selling my r1 to get a r3 the games I need better FPS are BFBC2. basically that's it

 

3DMark06 Scores on R1 oc'd to 1.7 via BIOS

Stock GPU - 6325

MSI afterburner installed with following settings
585/1404/880 - 4181

I uninstalled 3DMark, then reinstalled again
585/1404/880 - 4173

Put GPU back on stock settings - 6449

Am I missing anything?
(During the 2nd test, I unplugged the mouse and the test failed, so I re-installed)

 

Your drivers probably crashed. Sometimes when you overclock too high it will make the drivers crash and the video card will run at reduced speeds. Try lower clock speeds and see what happens.

 

m11x R3 with Core i5 (details in sig)

Synthetics
3DMark 06: 8563 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 3862
HDR/SM3.0 Score 3561
CPU Score 2383

3DMark 06 OC: 9622 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 4421
HDR/SM3.0 Score 4162
CPU Score 2429

3DMark 11: E1714, P1048
3DMark 11 OC: E1981, P1214

PCMark 7: 2410
NovaBench: 601
SuperPI: 4M - 1:30
PerformanceTest - CPU Mark - 2752

 

Well guys Ive only had my R3 for less then a week now and the Benching bug got me so here are my results. I think Im the newest member to the 10,000 mark club. If anyone has a higher score please post it

 

Oh so I dropped the Ram just a little bit and I mean little and still managed to squeeze 6 more 3dmarks out without uping anything. So as it sits Im sitting at 10065 3dmarks.

 

you must be getting an insane amount of artifacts, post your highest stable benchmark

 

I didnt have not 1 artifact at all. I dont get artifacts just driver crashing. I have my tricks to keep it cool enough to where it wont crash. But at the moment I cant push it any higher cause Im currently deployed to Afghanistan and cant get it cool enough.

 

thats great in that case man, do you have an inf driver? i do and mine crashes ALL the time

 

No i dont I can run these clocks all day no throttling or anything but 1mhz over and its crashfest.

 

So any thoughts on how Deus Ex:Human Revolution runs on R1/R2. Im positive the R3 will run it beautifully

 

i would like to know as well what the fps would be around with dx11 enabled

 

Froogle did a video. Good ol Froogle. Thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/605849-deus-ex-human-rev-m11x.html video for lazy people Deus Ex Human Revolution on the Alienware M11x - YouTube

 

Can nobody beat 10065 marks? This thread is about benchmarks and nobody post anything anymore. I do think there is another thread for I wonder how this game plays? correct me if Im wrong? Yep found it here you guys go http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/462632-m11x-gaming-discussion-thread.html

 

I've tried to get my R3 to crack 10k on 3dmark06 and just can't do it. In fact, I got around 97xx with just a GPU overclock and figured if I added the minor CPU OC in the BIOS I'd make it ...

I obviously don't know enough about how it all works, because as soon as I upped the cpu, my scores went down. Majorly down. Disappointly down into the 7k and 8k range sometimes, low 9k at other times.

So annoyed. Best GPU clocks were around 800/1600/1080 - sometime drivers would crash, other times ok.

 

Hey Iceman 9700 isnt anything to cry about thats awsome. I think only a few of us have broken 10K. I was able to push my clocks to about 835/16??/1075 but like you it crashes often at that then other times not so much. I benched with you clocks and im right on par with your scores i got 9800 something.

 

Yeah, I just wanted it so badly, just for enjoyment's sake. First Alienware and I wanted to do something cool with it.
I can't seem to get the core much over 800, while plenty of others do that easily. 804 worked once. Might play around a bit more once I finish grading papers this weekend, but prob won't have time.
Thanks for the positive feedback Oh, quick Q? - do you OC cpu and GPU, or just gpu?