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

svl I know you don't overclock your GPU when playing games, do you overclock your CPU at all?

 

No, at the moment I only overclock for benching... though there's still a bit headroom in most games.

I also overclock the CPU for encoding... but I don't do such things often atm.

 

Cool so what is the vantage GPU score on stock then? I'm guessing around 11-12k?

 

With the old drivers (11.3 if I'm correct) I got 11k on stock clocks. Haven't benched on stock with the newer drivers yet.

Edit: If you're interested I can do a stock run during the next days.

 

In your own time mate. Just contemplating whether the massive performance increase outweighs my reluctance to make the leap from green team to red...
You know, got to have a backup plan incase the 470m mod doesn't work as well as everyone here would like.

 

First of all lets see whether your 470m works... then you can still decide to jump on the 6970m train Good luck!!

 

Strong business, Svl7. How is that 6970m for everyday use, excluding benching. Getting harder to resist by the day.

 

Thank you! I have no issues at all in everyday use, Powerplay works perfectly and games don't even need an overclock even though I max them out. In some games you'll have to keep an eye on the power usage from time to time when you start overclocking, especially when you have an extreme processor... but I didn't run into issues so far.

I'm idling at about 45-50°C since it got a bit hotter outside. I definitely like this card

 

I overclocked mine to 750/950 even thoguh I don't need it but yea I game at those clock. Got 12k vantage with it.

 

Well here is the first fo my vantage runs. Im fairly happy with it.

 

time to do an AC run

 

Ok here is my finals. I will not be pushing it any more but im pleased with my scores. I cant reach the number 1 spot for the GTX 460 on 3dMark Vantage but I took #1 for 3dMark06 but I have secured the #5 spot for CPU score. Also Im sorry I turned off cpu-z before i remembered to save a clip. I was running 26 across all cores.

 

great runs kurt, next time try not to cover the cpu and gpu scores when taking a screen shot.

 

Ill remember it for next time

 

thanks to svl and widezu, i got the benching itch did a few runs of vantage,06 and 3d11. posted it in the M17x thread. man i hit 21.6k cpu vantage with the 2720, friggin awesome!!!

 

Hehe, great runs, really!! Now your 2720QM beats my 920xm... I need to complete a run with setFSB

 

True true, setFSB is never quick stable for me though. I can get blk 150 but not much more.

 

I can't even get to 150 I'll try it anyway, BSOD heaven I come!!

 

yeah the 2720 score really impressed me, but i did have the blk at 107.

 

Hey everyone, just got a new M15x with a 5850, just ran 3dmark vantage and it scored P9695 with an overclock of 805mhz on core and 1.050v, I think it did pretty good, I tested it with the 11.4 drivers, does anyone know if the older drivers score better, wanted to reach in the 10k score range.

 

I got the best results with the 11.5 drivers (and hotfix). You'll need to push it a bit more for 10k... keep on the benching and post some screenshots

Btw, seeing your signature I'm wondering why you sold the other M15x...?

 

yeah sold it about a year ago, decided to go in full tower water cooling, too much maintenance and it got heavy, sold that too and I went back to mobile.

 

yeah I sold it about a year ago, decided to go in full tower water cooling, too much maintenance and it got too heavy, sold that too and I went back to mobile.

 

Aww, I'd really miss the 1080p and SSD...

Keep us updated about your efforts!!

 

It's harder to push the machine since the ambient temperatures are getting hotter day by day... I managed to squeeze some more points in 3dM11:



No luck with benching and setFSB so far... only BSODs, a lot of BSODs.

Did you guys tried increasing the RAM voltage or setting it to unlocked mode? I increased my RAM voltage to 1.6V but I needed to reset the BIOS afterwards (coin battery)... didn't boot.

 

hahah get use to it buddy, your gonna see alot more messing around with setfsb. yeah i never messed with the ram setting either, since it causes the boot problem.

 

3dMark11 update with 11.5a Hotfix (RC2) drivers:

3dMark11: P3185 (5850M/920XM)

 

Once more, really impressive!!!
Is your card at the limits with these speeds?
Next on your to do list should be some vantage runs... go and get Inaps crown!

 

How bdo you change RAM timings? My chase for the world fastest M15x has lead me to the one in my sig but the RAM is running 9-9-9, I wanna lower these.

 

Wow at those clocks! I just did my baseline numbers and am gonna push clocks to see what kind of increase I can get.

 

Thanks, svl7. I think I'm at or very close to the card's limits without supplemental cooling, which I haven't used yet, but I've thought that for awhile and yet each driver release has given up a few more points. I will revisit Vantage, but I'm on the trail of a 6970M. You've convinced me to try one while waiting for the M18x situation to stabilize.

 

You'll almost certainly need to increase voltage to 1.15v to reach the upper limits of your card's capabilities. You'll also need TriXX. Sapphire Technology - TriXX Tweak Utility. Good luck; watch your temps.

 

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some modded vbios for my 5850, I did a search, but all the download links are all kind of dead, does anyone know a working link, thx

 

I can mod you one or give you one of the ones I used on my 5850m. But first of all make sure what clocks/voltage you want and test whether the system runs completely stable with them.

You can also easily mod a vbios yourself, the Rev wrote a nice summary here.

 

Bear in mind that TriXX allows a .10v increase in voltage, so your vbios does not need to exceed 1.05v in order to reach the 5850m's max voltage of 1.15v. And a 1.05v card runs noticeably cooler than a 1.15v card in normal use.

 

If only Trixx could manipulate 6970m voltages. I guess that's a lost cause as not even flashing works

 

Thx for info, had an idea and downloaded the new vbios on dell's website and modded that vbios on to my 1gb pen drive, and it flashed like factory, now running 700 core with stock voltage.

 

3dMarkVantage update with 11.5a drivers (in process):

3dMarkVantage CPU: 20,570 (920XM)

 

Damn you rev my CPU score wasn't posted yet but I bumped you off the CPU score and now I just got bumped back

 

I was running 800/1100 @ 1.1 stable in bc2, vantage, and 3dm11. Load temps at 86c, too hot for 24/7 use imo. So I dropped it back down to 725/1000 stock vcore. I was unable to hit 800/1000 on stock vcore and 750 was no go either.

Here are my 800/1100 runs.

3DMark11 - P2517
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1209899

3DMark Vantage - P9760
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3168649

 

@Rev what TPL settings do you have to run it @26x?

 

Here's
825/1100 @ 1.150 V
3dmv - P9949
Result

Max Temp @ 88c ambient is 75f.

850/1100 @ 1.150 V - This seems to be about my limit for the night.
3dmv - P10083
Result

Max Temp was the same as above.

850/1100 @ 1.150 V
3dm11 - P2619
Result

 

This looks promising! You should be able to hit 21k as well with your CPU.



@Roliath: You could get 10k vantage GPU with this voltage when adjusting the clocks a bit... as long as you can keep the machine cool enough. Nice runs!

 

Normally, I use 92W/78A for 26x, but all of a sudden I'm getting a lot of crashes at 26x, particularly in Vantage.

 

You're sure it was because of the CPU? Was it during the CPU test?
Recently vantage crashed all the time when I did some benching, during the GPU tests though... but I found out it was because of my CCC settings. Apparently the program didn't like something, but when I set it back to default everything was back to normal.

 

A new member of the Vantage P10K Club! Congratulations. Nothing unusual about your max temp with memory clocked to 1100 and voltage at 1.15v.

 

I'm easy, my friend. Knock me right back off. Vantage is not my strong suit at the moment.

 

Most of the recent crashes, the ones that are most frustrating, are happening during the CPU tests and particularly the first one, which is very unusual for me. Traditionally, most CPU crashes tended to occur during the second test. Something is out of whack somewhere in my setup or machine that is very unhappy up around 26x. Maybe it's just worn out. LOL.

 

It really is time to do a AC run

 

Interesting. I was running 26x throughout (90W/80A), and this was ok for the short term Throttlestop mark, and for 3dmark 06. I downloaded Vantage in advance of repasting my CPU - ran it and it crashed. I thought it was heat, but maybe not...

Of course, with a 260m, I can't blame it on CCC...

Joe