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

Hey why isn't my score on the board? Here's the post:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/7521825-post997.html

 

Sorry widezu69, I did the update pretty late last night and the numbers and code start to run after a while Your on the board now, updated to the top of the vantage/6970, top vantage gpu, and top vantage cpu lists. Again guys I'm not perfect, 2 1/2 months of scores start to run so if I missed something let me know. Thanks!

 

I did some tweaks on my Windows registry and got some pretty good scores on my Crucial C300 256GB SSD. Check it out!



Anyone else doing SSD benches?

Thanks Dane for the laborious job you're doing mate.

 

Here you go, Intel 320 Series, 300GB drive:

 

I feel your pain. +1 for the effort. When I get behind I'll have 15 tabs open and chart them out.

 

LOL, I shot you a PM on a way that makes it a bit easier doing updates after long periods of time DR650. Honestly if you hadn't made such a great layout it would probably be a simple unformated mess lol. I'm making another update due to some forgotten scores guys

 

Another thing guys I need to know what you'd all like to see in the SSD section as far as tests and how to track them? Crystal disk mark is kind of a given but with 8 scores in that thread we have to find a way to narrow it down, maybe average read and average write across each 4 tests on read and write or.....? Throw some ideas out there guys, this is a democracy not a dictatorship

 

Whoa. These 6970M's love 3dMark06. You can question the relevance of the DX9 benchmark to the current gaming world, but it's still fun to watch the high frame rates and pull the big numbers. Guys, all you need to do right now to make the 6970M leaderboard(s) is show up, run the benchmark and submit your score. Plenty of open slots -- join the party.

3dMark06 -- 20,876 (6970M/920xm)

 

True, listen to The Rev... no need to imitate him and beat all my highscores, hahahaha

Congrats, great run! Dell card seems to work very well!!


Edit: Need my card back... asap!!

 

Thanks. The Dell card is working reasonably well, and I'm certainly enjoying it, but there are integration and/or driver glitches from time to time, with lockups and black screens. Probably most can be cured or avoided with proper setup adjustments, but I haven't figured them out yet. The most annoying is that periodically the screen will just go dark, seemingly unrelated to anything happening at the time, i.e., no stress, nothing intense or power hungry. It just goes black, and I've found no way to get it back, except a hard shutdown and restart. This may be an 11.6 driver problem; it seems to be happening to others as well, but the randomness makes it hard to test.

If I'm currently ahead on some board, it won't last long once you get your 6970m back in action. Any progress?

 

Never had this issue with 11.5, and I didn't test 11.6 a lot before I bricked my card, but never noticed this.

Yeah, Kris can reprogramm the card for a reasonable price, but somehow I want to try it myself, could come in handy, having a programmer which can do it.
The only problem is that they're pretty expensive or need a LPT cable (I have no system with such a connector).
I've found a pretty cheap programmer on ebay which may work, even though the IC isn't listed there, probably I'm going to try this.
But first of all I'll check whether there's such a programmer at the university in the lab, or maybe a friend of mine has access to a programmer where he works.

But I should be studying at the moment, not benching... so it doesn't really hurry

 

Wow, I'm impressed that you can even undertake a DIY bios reprogramming effort. Keep us posted.

 

sounds like quite the project. Good luck man. at least you now know a way to bring your card back to life.
LPT cable? as in the old fat printer ports?

wow i haven't seen one of those in use for a while.

 

So here is my shot at benching with my 620m. It would have made the top 5 if Orangeclockwork didn't raise the bar for 5th place. I got over 14k though. What do you guys think?

 

wow nice work oldakowski.

 

Nice work!! 3dMark06 is very CPU dependent, maybe you're more lucky with vantage or 3dM11.

 

16k? Sooo damn close Gonna push to 800 core and try again. Temps were also still manageable. No auxiliary cooling.

 

wow almost there widezu. but dam nice score bud.

 

Wow... I need my card to work again, asap!!

What about overvolting widezu? Seems you're back home

 

Great score, Widezu69. That 6990M screams.

 

Nice wiz! How'd you get a 6990? I need that in crossfire!

 

Not really a 6990m just a 6970m ES version.

 

probably crap, but stock config with some simple GPU overclocks from ATI Overdrive and the free 3dMark 11 version.

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Looks about right, Counselor.

 

LOL, glad to know I look right. +1 rep with Dewey, Cheatam & Howe.

 

A clean-up post from an older benching session.

3dMark11 -- P4,293 (6970M/920XM)

 

Great run Rev!!! Need my card back...

 

Thanks, svl7. Hope that happens soon, but you have plenty of time. Planning to give it a rest from benching. This card has given me all I ever expected -- 4K+ in 3dMark11; 15K+ in Vantage and 20K+ in 06, and all rather easily. No sense in abusing it for small marginal gains, unless boredom or some killer driver appears. LOL.

 

Yeah, true... it's an amzing card for the M15x, even on stock clocks. I only wish it would be possible to adjust the voltage in the vbios.
I took a closer look on the card itself recently, but without the schematics it's pretty much impossible to try something hardcore like a VID mod or similar voltage mod. And it would probably kill my system anyway, hahaha, a voltage increas has a serious influence in the power draw... lol.

 

One thing we don't need is more power draw.

 

So true, but it would be interesting to see whether it works, especially for use in other systems. But without a schematic it's not easily achievable.

 

i willing to be a test subject, hehehehe killing stuff is my specialty. wow another awesome run rev.

been to busy to bench, plus weather is extremely hot atm which make me lazy.

 

Ok Inap, I'll let you know in case I figure something out

Yeah, The Rev made some killer runs with his 6970m... killing my scores, hahaha.

 

Just barely, and I had a goal to shoot for and the example of what can be done. Makes it a lot easier.

Inap, why selling the 2820? Find a reasonable deal/trade for a 2920? Would love to see that in the R3. If AW would offer one with M18x-level BIOS o/c'ing, I'd probably jump in even at an unreasonable price. Hear anything?

 

Gonna do a reinstall to see if it solves my shut down problems.

 

Good idea. Been thinking the same thing, but haven't yet summoned the energy. Clean installation cures a lot of ills and glitches.

 

my wife is planning a family trip, so i need the cash more atm, didn't really have time to test out the 2820 yet, just installed it to see if it worked and it did, looks like it may have unlocked multies, but i guess the bios is locking it. no 2920 new for the r3 atm, which is a shame. i would glady pay for one if the bios didn't lock out all the fun.
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I take it you have the same 2820 ES that I have? Managed over 22,000 marks on the cpu part of vantage.

 

dam bro we almost have the same exact setup, got me the hyperX's a few weeks ago. but forgot to update my sig. the cpu is nice, but need me some money, otherwise its a keeper.

 

Hey, Inap. CarlosGFK is a Sager alumni from the old days -- a man of few words but deep knowledge who likes to live out on the bleeding edge of technology. Your kind of guy.

 

cool, he sound like he could be my brother from another mother just like you bro, hahaha

geez you've seen the price for a 580m, holy cow!! being on the bleeding edge is sure expensive these days. kinda tempted to get that or the 6990, but the techs are so clueless, i'm having a super hard time just trying to get the price.

 

Can't wait to see some early numbers on both. Counting on you.

 

hopefully one of these dell techs will come through, i would try somewhere else but i'm pretty broke atm, so my dell dpa is the only way to afford one. hahaha

prolly one or the other, no way i can afford to get both. maybe the 580m to test since i'm pretty sure the 6990 would prolly work on the 15x. made i few local nbr friends that can help with testing in M15x.

 

Thanks for the kind words Rev, and yea it seems we are all cursed with wanting more from our machines.
Pricing on the 580m is ridiculous, makes the 6990m alot more appealing.
I don't think the numbers for the 580m will be all that different from those of the 485m, but who knows.

 

looks like i will be trading in the 2820 for a 2920. hoping i get a good over clocker.

 

Great news, Inap. Congratulations. Where are you getting it? +Rep on the come.

 

Oh yeah... looking forward to seeing you benching a 2920xm! Have you seen the link to the ES versions on T|I? Great prices...

 

never mind, i just talked to shirley the 2820qm i bought was actually a 2920xm es. shirley just posted the wrong number, hahahaha so i got a great deal on it. prolly bench it and sell it since the r3 bios is locking it. congrats carlos we got an 2920 es.

svl can't find the the ti post.

 

Ah, sorry... was in the shoutbox, the link is already gone. It was a link to shirley's ebay site You can easily find it. He's now selling them as 2920xm running at 2.4GHz... just like your CPU.

 

yeah its the same cpu, shirley just labeled it wrong when i bought, hahaha too bad i can't do much with it. even tried the modded bios still nothing. come one dell gave me an unlocked bios!!!

btw paint my r3 pretty soon still deciding on what colors to choose. was gonna do yellow again but since its been done already kinda leaning towards green, what do you guys think?