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

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@svl7, I see you revived the dead GPU, Nice! How'd you manage that? May give me hope for tinkering more with my 6970s.

 

Desoldered the flash memory chip from the PCB, reprogrammed it with the original vbios and soldered it back to the card. Got the programmer from ebay, was pretty cheap... it doesn't officially support the chip, but it worked.
Here's a little summary of the procedure and some pictures.

It's definitely great to know that it can be done with affordable equipment, but the whole procedure takes longer that I expected... it's nothing you want to do several times per day, but it's good to have a last option in case some experiments fail.

 

Successfully increased the core voltage of the CPU...

-Don't do this, it's crazy, highly dangerous for the hardware and not really useful... but a lot of fun Look at this, TS Bench... check out the multi:

That's during the run... the result can be seen here, 11.645 seconds. Beat that


After measuring the max standard voltage of my CPU I increased it by 200mV with a VID pinmod to about 1.350V.
That's already pretty close to the "absolute maximum Vcc rating" that Intel describes in the datasheets.

Already had two shutdowns, PSU light went out immediately, had to unplug it and plug it back to make it working again... so this is nothing healthy I guess.
Will make more benchmarks when I find time and cooling, ambient temperatures are too crazy for benching atm, and I don't have air conditioning.

Will also see what I can do with the BCLK, maybe I can now push it more than usual, without crashing all the time. Want to get to those 4GHz which king DR650SE got with his 920xm in the M17x


Edit: TS bench at 28x, BCLK at 144Mhz, results in 4.032GHz on all cores

 

Jesus svl7 that's an insane clock/multi on that chip! Nice job man! Good to see you got your GPU revived here's something for you to chase

I got a chance to run some more Vantage runs, here it is, over 15k GPU!



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3DMarks: P16,548
GPU: 15,215
CPU: 22,445

 

Dang! And I though I was getting somewhere with 14838 GPU.

 

Great score Dane, congrats!! Those memory speeds are crazy, I can't go over 1120MHz or so... The Hynix VRAM is definitely very good.

My next goal is 16k vantage total score (dunno whether I can get 15k GPU)... let's see what I can do with this mod... I doubt it will help, everyone who knows some basic physics knows that an increase in voltage results in a crazy increase of the power draw, hahahaha, lol.

 

ok guys decided to do the green paint job, hopefully will end up looking like the pic of dr650's avatar, hehehe

 

slv Straight up your the man. Can't wait to see your scores now. That's crazy. +1

inap That's going to be a sick looking system! Can't wait to see it.

 

Thank you! You're the guy who inspired me to do this! I might have to lower the voltage a bit, power draw is crazy. I will do more tests as soon as I have time and cooling.

I think this would be great in a M17x since it can draw more power...

 

I'm feeling very useless compared to you guys.

@svl7 -- Jeez, awesome clocks/power. Be interested to see just how much you can harness and apply. Scary what you've been doing lately.

@Dane -- Amazing scores with that 6970M. You've gone batshet crazy in your benchmarking endeavors and are blowing everyone else away. I surrender and don't even have a R3 yet. Your wife is looking for you; she's tired of you disappearing into the man-cave with all the new refrigeration equipment.

@Inap -- Great color. Is this one paint or the decal process?

+Rep to all when allowed.

 

@The Rev: Still need some testing... I'll look that I can get my hands on a 210W or 240W PSU somehow, the kill-o-watt reports during the very short tests I've done so far are scary. Peaks at 200W, hahaha.

As I said, it's probably not very healthy for the hardware, but a lot of fun so far. Maybe I can do some more stuff with setFSB now that we have some more BIOS options. I guess if I set the QPI to the lowest possible setting I might be able to clock higher without the RAM crashing. Need to test a lot of things when I find enough time.

 

Thanks Rev, don't know about batshet crazy lol. Just pushing it lightly in increments with slight tweaks in between. Thanks though You shouldn't surrender, heck no one thought they'd match my 5850 GPU score when I had it but it's been obliterated pretty bad by you She is actually the one who got me the cooling equipment and told me to do some more benching

 

I think I'm in love with your wife.

 

As am I She's friggin awesome, Rev and a few other members can attest to how much of my crap she puts up with and how supportive she is of all my "hobbies". She's also bought me a ton of money worth of Vaping stuff lately too. She's awesome!

 

You are a truly rich man, Dane.

 

no wonder your in the lead, i guess my wife is holding back my scores, hahaha

just haven't had time to bench lately, then when i had time my system wasn't up for it, go figure. hopefully get some time to test this weekend.

yeah rev, i'm getting mine painted this time.

 

Now, Inap, don't blame your inability to beat Dane on your wife! J/K!!

Dane, I am the lucky one to have you.

 

oooch!!! now you've done it! i'm coming for your hubby's score soon enough. hahah gonna get my wife an xps 14 to battle you too miss leiona,

prolly start benching again next month, just hadn't had time to bench lately. after vacation and the in-laws leave, then i will start throwing down.

 

LOL bring it Inap, might want to pick up some DICE cause you're gonna need it Lookin forward to seeing some scores, you may have a chance on a couple of them but you have your work set out for you on the Vantage run

 

yeah your vantage is amazing bro, gonna need me a 2820 to compete with your scores man. i just found a local spot for some dry ice, so im gonna try that out for the first time too.

the benching bug has made me regret getting the 2720, hahaha

 

How do you access the heatsink in the r3? Same as in the r2? Or do you have to bench with an external display when using dry ice (like with the M15x)?

 

everything is on the bottom like the M15x, thinking of just flipping it upside down on a glass table or something. sometime i get problems benching on external sometimes. dice looks fun, really looking forward messing around with it. my ac unit is officially busted too, my baby boi manage to stick a couple of pencils through the vent and broke the blower .

 

Aw, sucks... so you're forced to go the dry ice route. Keep care with condensing water, especially if the air humidity is high, but shouldn't be a big problem. Some duct tape will come in handy (and gloves, hahaha)

Looking forward to seeing some pics!

 

What I did was place a microfiber cloth on a table an lay the computer down on it belly up, put the dice on the heatsinks and bench on an external through either hdmi or vga. With the dice it definitely helps on 11 and Vantage but didn't do anything for me on 06 for some weird reason.

 

thanks for the tips guys, prolly be another few weeks before i do any major benching. but i'm really excited to gave this a try for the first time.

 

just came back from the paint shop

 

Looks great!!!!

Btw., I never asked... did you remove the rubber coating?

 

nope painted straight on the soft touch. quad painted his first and had issues removing the soft touch, so i left it alone and painted straight over it.

 

Ok, impressive result!!

 

i think i have to take it back for some touch up, they miss the edge of the cover but everything else looks great.

 

Crap... they should've seen this...

 

yeah just brought it back to them, they just miss some of the edges, guess they think it that part wasn't visable or something. but its cool they are gonna fix it.

 

Dayumm!!! That's freakin awesome Inap! Is it just automotive paint or what was used on it? And you mind me asking how much that set you back?

 

Yeah its auto paint, it was a friend shop so he hooked it up for $100, but originally told me $200.

 

all stock clocks vantage run, let me know if i didnt include something i was supposed to.

 

Cool! That's on stock clocks?

If you want your score to be included in the list on the first page you need to post a screenshot with GPU-Z, CPU-Z and the result visible, like in this post. If you don't care about the highscore list it doesn't matter

 

We need to send a posse out for Dane and prevail on him to update the boards so we have some idea of how scores are trending. Would probably encourage a little more benching, particularly with the arrival of all these new 920xm's and 6970M's.

 

will this work? yeah everything on stock clocks. how does that score look? good/bad?

 

wow nice score bud. also add gpu-z in your screen shot too.

 

Could you attach the picture with a slightly higher resolution? It's hard to read, but I think this should work as well, the HWiNFO summary reports the clock speed of GPU and CPU.

The scores are exactly what you get at stock clocks, so everything's fine.


Edit: @The Rev: Yeah, that's an idea I too hope people will do some more benching, would be great to see some more 6970ms in a M15x getting pushed to the limits... I plan to do a session in a week or two, depends on when I can squeeze it in.

 

Browses gear button and zooooooom away. Or wrench button and zoooooom away. @inap if you want help with the dice let me know I can tell you how to shape it into the desired form, I already have a science experiment playing out in my head

 

off topic i worked at EA today and they had the trailer up for the new starwars the old republic up and that game looks amazing!!!!!

 

Yeah... I know, problem is that this won't make it easier to read, there's only so many pixels in a 800x450 image and zooming in won't really help

Old Republic? Sounds really interesting.

 

hellz yeah, that would be awesome. i was just gonna slap a couple of dry ice cubes on it and call it dice, lolz.

old republic sound cool, may call you up for the hook up.heheh

 

@inap: You can get whole dry ice blocks? I can only get pellets... where I get my dice the minimum order for blocks is 40kg, hahahaha, overkill!!

 

usually in grocery stores they have blocks of dry ice you can buy and they just weigh it out and tell you the price shouldn't be more that a few bucks, at least it wasn't the last time i bought some.

 

They don't have this stuff in grocery stores over here... unfortunately. But I'm fine with pellets, costs about $3/kg that's o.k.

 

yeah i just put an order in for 10lbs, hope thats enough, hahah
gotta hold on to till my new system comes.

got lucky, there is a guy they makes ice right by my shop, and he is ordering for me on the cheap.