*OFFICIAL* M11x Benchmark Thread

Hey DR650SE, I got 6942 last night on 3dmark06, su4100. I went to far on my gpu with the next run, I jumped WAY up and it caused errors and then i had to reboot. I may try to break 7k today some time... Just so we can say a 4100 did it. I am pretty sure I can do it. Here are the settings that caused overflow (proc 620, ram 900, 1350). Best Wishes, StevenX

NOTE: 3dmark06 score 6942 was stable playing COD MW2 online so it is ok...

 

Nice, your getting close. Be sure to try and shut off any services that are not needed to run the benchmark in the "Services" panel. Just type "Services" into the start menu. You can stop them. Also your Shaders can go up to about 1400 at least I think. I bench mine between 1460-1500. Also make sure to turn off anything not needed in the BIOS. Look at some of the clocks on the top scores, should give you and idea of where you can set the clocks. Good luck, it'd be awesome to have an SU4100 in the top scores.

 

Could someone explain if there is a difference in setting the MAX performance in Alien Command Center vs. the Windows Power Options?

Pros?
Con?

Are they both the same?

Thanks!

 

beomsu21 - I have asked the same thing and I still dont have a definitive answer. If it's up to me I say remove the alienware stuff, work through the OS... I can say this for FACT. I have everything and I mean everything set to performance (both os and aw). I have now optimized the notebook with some software i found "bills affinity" program and running games on high priority. Makes a HUGE difference. I also use Gamebooster. Example Game (Just Cause 2, retail purchase). Three benchmarks included with game. City #3 is the toughest. With only cpu oc I got around 17fps. Run Gamebooster and I get around 19fps. Run bills affinity and game on high and now 23fps. OC the gpu around 10-15 percent and I am now at 27fps with details on mix of low/med/high with shadows and ssao enabled. (no bokah filter). Optimization makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE. I can't stress this enough. Any load you can take of the processor will improve performance.
Have fun,
StevenX

 

Speaking of benchmarks.. DR605SE.. I can't break 7k yet. I can get to 6970s.. that is it. I am not going to disable stuff in bios to break it. If I can't play a game stable at the settings than I wont count it. (That is just me).
So.. for the record.. 6972 I believe is my best run. SU4100... signing off for now..

StevenX

 

3DMark Vantage: P 3322

 

M11xx, Nice score! How was stability at those clocks and what kinda of cooling were you using? Now I might have some incentive to bench more

Scores updated

 

stability was fine, didn't really have any special cooling other than a couple of coke zero bottles out of my fridge placed right by the fan

vantage score isn't maxed out yet though, I was just calling it a night at 4:30am but will continue to work on it once someone beats the current one.

 

Ahh, sounds good, yea I never gave Vantage much shot since it requires an external monitor.

 

Cough... cough... excuses... Are you going to let him talk to you like that or we can expect a new vantage challenger soon?

 

There will be a challanger LOL

 

guys, what software are you using to overclock gpu?

 

evga precision for me..easy and light

 

Nvidia System Tools for me.

 

ok, will try sys tools at first. are you using them with dell hybrid driver?

 

Yea, still using the stock drivers.

 

Ok, i ran the GTA iv benchmark....

Statistics
Average FPS: 26.25
Duration: 37.45 sec
CPU Usage: 97%
System memory usage: 70%
Video memory usage: 46%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 720 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: Off
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Low
Texture Filter Quality: Tri-Linear
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 1
Detail Distance: 2

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M
Video Driver version: 197.12
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Genuine Intel(R) CPU U4100 @ 1.73GHz

 

Got a screen shot?

 

overclocked gpu to 550 / 900 / 1400
previously i have had 19 fps in SC Conviction menu, now about 23

View Distance: 1
Detail Distance: 2
so, objects appear right in front of your nose?)

Texture Quality: Medium
don't think that textures somehow affect cpu, only viocard which is free

System memory usage: 70%
Video memory usage: 46%
and high textures look much better.

 

sorry, no screenie - what can i use besides Fraps for that?

Also, I'll run the bench on high textures just to see, as well.

Edit: a couple more gta iv benches. I tried it same as above, just high textures. no change.

min'ed out p):
Average FPS: 28.75
Duration: 37.15 sec
CPU Usage: 96%
System memory usage: 67%
Video memory usage: 65%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 800 x 600 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Low
Shadow Quality: Low
Reflection Resolution: Off
Water Quality: Low
Texture Filter Quality: Tri-Linear
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 2
Detail Distance: 2

Auto configured:
Average FPS: 23.03
Duration: 37.22 sec
CPU Usage: 96%
System memory usage: 69%
Video memory usage: 81%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1366 x 768 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Medium
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x4
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 22
Detail Distance: 11

 

I was thinking exactly the same!

@The person who posted it: How are you playing with those settings?

 

Can someone help me with overclocking the GPU, well just maybe some info to see if its something I want to do.

Will I get noticeable performance gains?
What settings are the most stable and best for a newbie like me (well new to OC'ing a GPU)?
What are the side effects of the OC? Heat, battery life, GPU life?

 

yes

stock settings - everything else you'll have to play arround with, increase by 10% or so and see what happens..

All of those besides GPU life, unless it's running ~90°+

 

as far as fps? it's fine. seems about just the average. not super silky, but not choppy either.

as far as stuff popping up, it's having stuff pop up or have it get choppy real fast. i am running view and detail distance higher now.. like 5-10ish.

 

You didnt share how it felt gaming. Does it run well? Or is it ugly and/or choppy? Please elaborate on the actual gaming experience.

Thanks

 

imo it seems fine, but i don't have anything to compare it to (ie, higher octane gaming rig or even console). To me, it seems nice enough at the specs of the first bench i posted. much higher settings and it stutters, any lower it isn't as attractive.

I'll see about a screenie of gameplay just to show what it looks like.

Edit: here's one screenie. Not sure what's with the fps. it seems alot better... but i'm sure having a few programs in the bg doesnt help. pic

 

Thanks for the pic. It looks good.

 

Can't get even close to this numbers. Any advice? I'm talking about gpu overclock. Always get "nvidia driver stopped respond and was restarted.

I'm using dell beta driver.

 

When I'm running the benchmark I have it sitting directly on an airconditioner at full blast and as cold as it can get, to get it to complete a run without crashing the display drivers. It takes several runs sometimes to get it to complete the test. I've hit 7129 several times maybe 4-5 times, and havn't gotten a point over. I quite after a while. Lastnight after flashing A03, I hit 7118 on my second run, but quite after that. But to keep it stable, keep it as cold as possible. Also you need to shut down as many services and processes as possible. I shut down every service I can so that only ones running are the ones that are neccessary for the run.

 

Ok will try it

Right now i've got 6502 on default settings (exept cpu which is OC)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5020311/m11x/m11x_6502_mark06.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5020311/m11x/m11x_6502_mark06.xlsx

 

Be sure to disable Physx in the nvidia control panel when running the benchmarks.

 

Sounds weird. I'm overclocking to have smooth fps, not just to run some 3dmark and pray it won't crash.

Can you name me stable clock which works in most of your games? Or you aren't overclocking while playing?

 

When I game I don't normally overclock. It's something you'll have to try out because every game will be differant.

 

Does anyone here play SC2 on their m11x? Can you comment on how it performs on HIGH or ULTRA settings while playing on battlenet? Is there any lag experienced, or low frames, etc? I know that the 335M wont have a problem producing ULTRA images, but will the CPU handle it well during online matches with lots of units? I'm reconsidering the m11x again, cuz I like its size and battery life.

Thanks

 

Not sure how it runs, but I think I read a little about it in the **Official M!!X Gaming Discussion Thread**.

 

Update:

257.15 + A03



3DMark Vantage: P 3331

 

Does anyone have an idea how flash CS4 and photoshop CS4 works with the M11X?

good, bad, slow, decent?

thanks

 

hey guys. if you guys have the stock 7200 rpm drive and wanted to upgrade to an sdd but it was too expensive you might wanna look at this.

Newegg.com - Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ Solid State Hybrid Drive -Bare Drive

also, if anyone with an SSD wants to get one and test it out against the ssd and the 7200 rpm drive. that'd be awsome. i wanna see some benchmarks of this hybrid ssd.

 

Cooool repped you, thank you for the link! I'm having newegg auto notify me

 

Bah! $130? That bare drive is $20 cheaper then the retail price would be. I am tempted to buy that and compare how it stacks against the Intel x25-m 160gb g2 SSD.

 

hell yeah. i really wanna see benchmarks of this thing. if it performs close to an ssd im gonna be pretty impressed especially cause its SO MUCH CHEAPER!

 

Hmm. Seems tomshardware reviewed it and said that they lost 50 mins of battery life vs a Seagate 7200.4 HDD. That's huge.

So the choice boils down to SSD for fastest performance, no heat output, low power usage, and a savings in battery life (negatives being cost and storage space) or this XT hybrid for huge cost savings, large storage space, and speed that is faster then any HDD but almost to the speeds of SSD (negatives being power usage).

I'll wait to see what others say on the power usage of the drive before I consider buying one now.

 

hmm. 50 mins is alot. your right. but for me, the price kills it. i cant afford ssd drives cause they're too expensive and they dont have enough space. i think this will cater to alot of people with desktop replacement laptops as those laptops are almost always plugged in anyways. but for us m11x mobile users. i might be willing to sacrifice 50 mins. depends on how much of a performance boost it gives me from the regular 7200rpm drive though, faster performance = more work done = less time needed for battery XD haha

 

This thing is being discussed in like 4 differant threads, isn't there a consolidated thread? Who's getting the new Seagate NAND hybrids?

 

Guys, after bad gpu overclock, driver applies failsafe clocks, something about 400/300/800 or something like it, and no way to change them, have to restart pc. Any way to make it easier?

Wanna overclock gpu and play crysis, but even 550/900/1400 crashes driver...

Maybe i should use some other overclock utility?

 

wondering if it's worth OC'ing GPU for SCII.. I'm thinking not since I saw benches show FPS scales well with higher clock frequency at 2cores..

 

Hey, can you confirm if m11x runs SC2 with high/ultra settings WELL on battlenet?

Thanks!

 

SC2 high setting no issue ...ultra also playable..

 

what about on 2v2? or 4v4? thanks.

 

sorry if this is not the right thread but i am wondering if i will be able to render videos fast on the m11x and does photoshop cs4 run above normal on this i mean the gpu is a monster and has cuda. my main reason for buying this is school, battary, gaming and encoding videos will i be able to do this. in my life i have never exprinced a core 2 duo currtly i am on a amd sempron 2800++ 1.9ghz