*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Benchmark Thread Part 2

Welcome to the second installment of the Alienware M15x 'All Powerful' Benchmark thread here on NBR.

The last thread had become quite crowded, and no longer had anyone tracking scores so a newer thread was needed - here it is! The original thread can be found HERE.

There are several apps which can be used to benchmark your system. Following is a short list of some which are typically used. There are others and the core benchmarking members will have plenty of suggestions - so ask away.
FutureMark Benchmark Apps

• 3DMark 11 NOW AVAILABLE!
• PCMark Vantage
• 3DMark Vantage
• 3DMark 06

Component Benchmark Tools

• POVRay v3.7 (multi-threaded version)
• Fritz 9 Chess Benchmark - standalone
• SuperPi Mod v1.5
• HDTune
• Everest Ultimate - Trial Version
• HWiNFO32
• MaxxPI²

Game Benchmark Tools

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark
• Resident Evil 5 Benchmark
• Unigine Heaven
• Crysis Benchmark Tool v1.05

A word of caution concerning benchmarking... While benchmarking / number chasing can be quite a bit of fun, please be aware that benchmarking your system is pushing your system to its limits. It can and will stress your components. Do so at your own risk - nobody is responsible for this but you.

Finally, as with all threads here on NBR, please remember the forum rules when posting. Also please note, any images posted which cause page scrolling will be removed. Repeat offenders will receive infractions. There is no reason you cannot take a moment to resize or use thumbnail previews. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation with this.

Have fun folks and lets see how far you can push the M15x!

Also, big thanks go out to DR650SE for tracking the scores in the last thread, and for all of the work he did to make tracking the scores in this thread so easy!!!

 

Welcome to the M15X Benchmark Thread
Last updated on: 25 June 2011
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NOTE: When posting your benchmarks, please include a screenshot of your final score, along with CPU-Z and GPU-Z in your screenshot alongside your score. This is to verify your information. Without screenshots with the information, scores will not be included in the top 5. If you need an example please reference benchmark links in my sig. If you have questions how to get the screenshots, please PM me and I will explain it. This is not the case with gaming benchmarks that have in game benchmark tools. Please refrain from attaching large photos (greater then 500x500) causing slow load times and excessive scrolling. You can use links to your photos from sites such as imageshack.us. If you have qualified into the top scores, please PM me with a link to your post so that I may link your score in this post. I will try my best to update this post on at least a weekly basis. Please PM me if you wish to add something to the list and we can discuss it. Now let's have fun and push the system!

NOTE: Any images posted must be 500x500 or less. If larger, they will be removed by a moderator (see forum rules). For information on using thumbnail previews for large images, see here.

Please PM me your scores if there are any new runs or any that I have missed, reading through the entire thread is very tedious and I will not be doing it. Thanks!

All runs done at default settings, native resolution, 1280 x 1024 and PhysX turned off
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Synthetic Benchmarks
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TOP VANTAGE GPU SCORES

(1) svl7 - 14555 AMD 6970
(2) widezu69 - 14402 AMD 6970
(3) The Revelator - 14063 AMD 6970
(4) Jstarnino - 10509 ATI 5870
(5) DaneGRClose - 10451 ATI 5850


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TOP VANTAGE CPU SCORES

(1) inap - 22048 CPU: 940-XM
(2) svl7 - 21345 CPU: 920-XM
(3) The Revelator - 21224 CPU: 920-XM
(4) faiz23 - 21077 CPU: 920-XM
(5) widezu69 - 20835 CPU: 920-XM


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GPU: AMD 6970

3DMark06: Top 5

(1) svl7 - 20823 CPU: 920-XM
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)

3DMark Vantage: Top 5

(1) svl7 - P15746 CPU: 920-XM
(2) widezu69 - P15607 CPU: 920-XM
(3) The Revelator - P15343 CPU: 920-XM
(4)
(5)

3DMark11: Top 5

(1) The Revelator - P4205 CPU: 920-XM
(2) svl7 - P4180 CPU: 920-XM
(3) migualo - P4102 CPU: 920-XM
(4) MrValle - P3229 CPU: 840-QM
(5)

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GPU: ATI 5870

3DMark06: Top 5

(1) Wattos- 17060 CPU: 920-XM
(2) InappropriateName_3 - 16563 CPU: 920-XM
(3) tangtang2002- 16232 CPU: 920-XM
(4) Wattos - 16177 CPU: 920-XM
(5) jubbing- 14111 CPU: 820



3DMark Vantage: Top 5

(1) Mandrake - P11672 CPU: 920-XM
(2) InappropriateName_3 - P10981 CPU: 920-XM
(3) Jstarnino - P10775 CPU: 720
(4) tangtang2002 - P10670 CPU: 920-XM
(5) Andre56 - P10578 CPU: 820QM

3DMark11: Top 5

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)

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GPU: ATI 5850

3DMark06: Top 5

(1) svl7 - 18019 CPU: 920-XM
(2) The Revelator - 17638 CPU: 920-XM
(2) inap - 17638 CPU: 940-XM
(3) The Revelator - 17075 CPU: 920-XM
(4) faiz23 - 16889 CPU: 920-XM
(5) orangeclockwork - 14736 CPU: 840-QM

3DMark Vantage: Top 5

(1) The Revelator- P12240 CPU: 920-XM
(2) svl7 - P12203 CPU: 920-XM
(3) inap- P11951 CPU: 940-XM
(4) Lacey - P11498 CPU: 920-XM
(5) faiz23 - P11012 CPU: 920-XM

3DMark11: Top 5

(1) The Revelator - P3287 CPU: 920-XM
(2) svl7 - P3187 CPU: 920-XM
(3) Lacey - P3064 CPU: 920-XM
(4) inap - P3039 CPU: 940-XM
(5) stevenxowens792 - P2783 CPU: 720-QM

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GPU: Nvidia GTX 460M

3DMark06: Top 5

(1) KurtH - 17240 CPU: 940-XM
(2) spoonjaffa - 13721 CPU: 620-M
(3) Seph-VII - 13098 CPU: 540-M
(4)
(5)


3DMark Vantage: Top 5

(1) widezu69 - P9593 CPU: 920-XM
(2) KurtH - P7413 CPU: 940-XM
(3)
(4)
(5)

3DMark11: Top 5

(1) spoonjaffa - P1876 CPU: 620-M
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)

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GPU: Nvidia 260M

3DMark06: Top 5

(1) cleverpseudonym - 14346 CPU: 820qm
(2) hitokiri1- 13453 CPU: 820qm
(3) Smeggit - 13339 CPU: 820qm
(4) tuenkamen - 13329 CPU: 620m
(5) killerjon2 - 13204 CPU: 720qm


3DMark Vantage: Top 5

(1) cleverpseudonym - P7373 CPU: 820
(2) hitokiri1 - P7067 CPU: 820
(3) Smeggit - P6977 CPU: 820
(4) foresterLV - P5856 CPU: 920-XM
(5)


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GPU: Nvidia 240M

3DMark06: Top 5

(1) HarryTheFish - 7141 CPU: 720
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)


3DMark Vantage: Top 5

(1) sleey0 - P2658 CPU: 620
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)


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Top Gaming Benchmarks
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Crysis:

Devil May Cry 4:

Left 4 Dead 2:

Resident Evil 5: KoukiFC3S - 50.6 FPS Max Settings 2XAA |

Street Fighter IV:

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Top SSD/Hard Drive Benchmarks
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Coming Soon:

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**NOTE** If you have a suggestion or would like to see something added to this post, or you have any questions, don't hesitate to PM me.

 

Inap i am coming for you!!!!!

 

That's a dang nice run Faiz! Especially considering he's running a 940xm and you're on a 920xm!

 

INAP I WANT YOU and your 940xm (i will take the gpu too =p)


CPU-Z Validator 3.1

 

Eat your heart out guys!

 

WOW!!!! first one to hit 1k on the core....are you on A/C

here is a bench i did to hit 11k but still not able to hit the score i want on CPU...done benching for the night now time to enjoy the beast.

Imageshack - p11k.jpg

 

Oh I was definitely on ac lol! I hit the wall where ac was required at 980, I was up in the 90's at 980 without it. I have a 10316 gpu run I will post in abit that was run at 1005/1170.

 

I miss Harry
Thanks DanGR for this thread! Will try to post some scores when I get a new gpu O_O

 

Seriously, what happened to him? It really is no problem, I enjoy keeping it alive by helping, thank dr650se for the work he did and batboy for oking the new thread to clean it up too. What happened to your gpu? I'm going to try to get the rest of the sections filled in, there has to be more scores than that. I just have a bit of reading and tracking to do it (200+ pages lol).

 

10316 Run


10405 Run!!!

 

Dude awesome score dane!!!! Dam 1005 for the core geez bro, how can I beat that. Gonna be a lot of sleepless nights ahead of me hahahahaha.

 

Holy crap, 110 core your killing me here. Hahaha

 

Man that's crazy score faiz. Looks like I need to buy a better ac unit,hehe

 

DAMN son i need to start pushing that GPU but first i need a portable A/C....my brother has my unit in Cleveland and now i feel like a dumba** for letting him borrow it lolz...FAMILY....AARRRRGGHGHHH.

Those are some awesome scores DANEGRCLOSE how high did you push the 5870 in the m17x i hope m17x owners catch a clipse of this and learn from it.

 

Turned out it sucks!
I know its bad

 

Wow whats the deal with that card? Those things can crazy overclock. What are the stock clocks? Here is my best Vantage run on a single GPU. Didn't put much into it, maybe I'll give it another shot tonight. First I need to get Riva Tuner working so I can overclock after Flashing the GPU.

HWBOT Submission
Score: P11163
GPU: 9879
CPU: 18295

 

I got a card that's an absolute freak of nature from dell as a replacement, funny thing is it's a refurb that's got some sort of issue with the shaders or shader temp sensor as it's been reading pretty high at idle. Stock clocks for these cards are 625/1000 and that last run for the 10405 was at 1010/1180! The other thing is keep in mind that was run on A/C, without A/C I couldn't run safely past about 960-9760/1125 as the temps would sky rocket in New Calico. What do you think of the new thread DR650?

 

I like the new thread, I like the idea of consolidating the scores on the first page. Makes it easier for people to find if they want to look. Only thing I'd like to see is the "Welcome to the M15X Benchmark thread a little bigger. Looks great though, +1

 

Changed it to show the larger bold title as you mentioned. Thanks! If any one else has any recommendations just let me know.

 

here just a repost of my top scores.
man dane beating your gpu is gonna be super hard, if not impssible aarrrggghhh!!!

 

Those are still some dang nice scores inap! I figure I'm gonna give it about a week before I update the scores to see if anybody can out do any of the scores currently in the top 5 for each catagory. You got a week to outdo me inap you can do it! I figure at the very least I'm gonna bump jstar down that list and from what I've seen he can't even counter it anymore lol.

 

Do you guys keep on going until your m15x's explode and kill everyone around in a wave of deadly liquid metal shrapnel? Or will this madness come to an end at some point

 

the madness will not end, once it begins to dwindle, a new laptop will replace the aging (and abused) m15x... thus the cycle begins once more.

 

it never ends just keep on pushing it to the bleeding edge and inch before BSOD's. Then you get a new part and your repeat all over again. You cross your fingers while doing each bench and hope you learn some new trick in the process and share your knowledge with other.

 

aiyah, i wish i had the $ to do that. instead i end up with a 5870 unable to get to 900 core even with temps way below 80C and vcore bumped up.

some ppl here (looks at inap) have had multiples of the same card and maxes out each one seeing how far he can push.

need... better... job... to support... my OCD.

wowzers faiz, that settings on the cpu stable for use or just bench?

 

the multi are stable for daily use haven't crashed on me what does cause crashes is bumping core 4 to 27 or higher instantly or bumping core 1 to 31 or higher. The highest clock i can go is 30x on core 1 to validate. For benching highest stable is 28-28-28-26. Damn last core is holding me back but for being an ES chip and how little i paid i can't complain. Only wish my GPU would suck it up and learn to handle the higher clock rates lolz.


Edit: I have TS set to 25x default and normally just leave it on that but when i game i will bump up multi to 28-28-27-26 as you see and haven't had BFBC2 crash on me and work fine the last couple weeks i have been trying out higher multi.

 

10426 Vantage GPU Score

And the ante is upped even further, come get it inap and faiz!

 

i gave up your card is made by the gods, hehehehe

trying to get some free time to bench, arrghhhh
wished i was still single, then i could do this 24/7, hahhaha

 

This past week I kille 1 5870 GPU and an SSD from benching. It shall end when the last aliens blood is spilled.

 

Ehhh, don't know about "made by the gods" if it was I'd be running 4000/12000 runs lol. Maybe a demi-god lol. Funny thing, I installed the new card thinking I was sending this one back, popped it in with a nice paste job and new pads and the stupid thing idled ridiculously high(high 50's across the board), struggled to get through a stock vantage run, and his 95 degrees in 2 mins of furmark even after multiple paste attempts so I talked to tech and they said I could keep the other card or try again. I'm keeping this card and I guess if it fails on me some point down the road I'll start again.

^^^DR650 I like that lol.

 

How do you kill an SSD by benching?

 

all the constant reboots?
setfsb raising the pci bus?

not really sure tbh, i thought setfsb was locking the agp/pci/sata bus in place.

 

had time to do some benching, did just a tad better, but wow psu is hitting 180-185. but my first 22k cpu score. i think i'm hitting my power limits, tried a second and third run with higher multi but all poop out lower scores.

 

That's a nice score there inap! Good job man! Seriously pulling down those GPU scores is pretty much impossible for almost everyone else even without that wicked cpu clock.

 

That's an amazing performance for a single card laptop, Inap, much less with a 5850.

 

Question, what are you guys getting on your GPU stock, no overclock, on Vantage? My GPU seems like it's not running as well as it did before on games, so I just ran a stock run and I got 6085 for GPU. CPU seems normal at at 12064.

 

More like 7,251 at 625/1000 with an 820QM. CPU was 12,081.

 

Damn. Somethings wrong with my GPU. D:
I knew there was something up with my FPS...

 

Bummer.

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/10char

 

What do you think I should do... :S
Does this mean my card is dying? If so, then I hope it slowly fades cause I might be able to snag a nice 6XXX.

 

I don't know, none of the usual suspects would seem to apply. Might reinstall drivers on the off chance they've become corrupted somehow. I'll think about it, maybe some others can help.

I guess the first thing to do is run GPU-Z and log results while playing a game or running Vantage. That should show whether and when it is downclocking and could suggest the cause.

 

Well, recently, I've been hearing like the scraping of something against sand or dust... I dunno, it hasn't happened today, but I've heard it this weekend and plus, recently, my MW2 hasn't been able to start up. o.o

GPU-z log

 

Try the GPU-Z logging and see what it shows. Post a copy of the log file here. The noise sounds fan related, but unless temps are significantly higher, wouldn't directly affect card operation.

 

Well, I just edited my above post. It seems like the GPU is throttling down for some reason. In the middle of a benchmark it goes down to 500/1000 then, 100/150. o.o Never happened before. You know what could be causing this?
My temps are decent too.

 

use AMD gpu tools and manually set your clocks at 625/1000 and rerun the test and go back an rerun a gpuz log and see how it does. I remember another member who had similar issues and turned out to be CCC powerplay and removing and reinstalling took care of it. I would set the clock manually so they are locked in and redo the test and see if there is any changes.

 

do you have powerplay enabled or disabled?

on another note, no setfsb foe me

 

Sorry to hear it on FSB, I'm in the same boat. Any new runs?

 

nope not yet, maybe do some 06 runs later, but don't think i can do any better without setfsb, arrgghhhh!!!

 

Well if you think you've hit a wall on total score and cpu score make some gpu runs!