*OFFICIAL* M15x Benchmark Thread

i got around the low to mid 90's for the ram, and mid 80's for everything else. after like 10 mins.

 

Not much difference, but the M15x seems to run a shade hotter then the 8760.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/6383984-post872.html


Thats why i said how happy i was ..

 

Worst part of the G73 was the stupid double sided tape on the keyboard and how you have to practically destroy the keyboard just to get it off....

When your inside everything is just cheap and there is tape holding to many things down... Its a great machine if you can just leave it alone but since i like to tinker i was not that happy lol....

 

LOL. Exactly the same. So, what are you aiming for?

 

@Inapp -- New card? Were attempts to recover the old one not successful?

 

Well based on your temps i think ? im content lol... I would like say 82 degrees but its just not likely to happen so ill leave well enough alone for now...

I have some thinner thermal pads coming and ill take another crack at it then but i dont expect much... As long as in the end its not worse ill be happy....

 

Lol like joker found a way to oc the CPU. He just posted in m15x owners thread, looks interesting.

 

here is what i get after 20min of furmark....



86-87c for 20 min...

 

Nice, temps look consistent.

 

Yep nice temps for sure...

If your up to it run it for 10 min at 750/1050 ...

 

how much does room temp effect the idle and load temp of gpu...

@quadzilla.. here u are...

 

wow your temps are really awesome wiz. i still need to get my ram temps under control.

 

All our machines are hitting 88 it seems ... Good stuff and especially compared to the Clevo ...

Thinner pads may help the memory temps ...

I had and have considered compound on the Video memory and before people say No dont put paste on the memory plenty of people do this on the desktop cards and waterblocks etc so its perfectly fine and safe.... Obviously not AS5 though or any conductive paste though lol...

Ill wait until i get the 0.5m pads and go from there ...

 

Clevo cards are overvolted as mandrake said... Just reduce it by .05 v(1.1v) and flash it with edited bios.. You will see the temps drop from 96 to 88....

 

Well just got power back in the house, we were down for nearly 24 hours. It was just in time because I got a new clevo 5870 in the mail (thanks babyhemi) and I ran furmark for 5 minutes with no throttling. Definitely something weird with the Dell cards. Temps topped at 72c. I'm happy now.

 

wow sweet, should be getting my new card tomorrow also. so did you flower your voltage on the card mandrake?

 

Mandrake how are u gettin 72c after 5 minutes on furmark..... The lowest i got was 82c in 5 min.... With 1.05v 25c room temp... was hot lol!!!

Inap u r getting a second card... no news on the bricked card...

How is the momentus as compared to 7200 rpm..... might get that as a second drive for my m15x... going to get the intel g3 ssd soon... that is when it comes out...

 

still waiting for a chance to flash it, but don't look so good.

 

No, I plan on trying Vantage soon.

I probably should mention I almost always use a Cryo. It's not the most powerful set of fans but acts nicely to prop your system up.

Regarding the Seagate, I bench with my Samsung SLC SSD and I can definitely tell the difference but it's still a nice middle ground for performance, capacity and price.

 

waiting for your vantage runs for awhile now. hope to see them soon.

 

Downloading it now but first Quad wanted me to do furmark for 10 minutes at 750/1050 with no cooler.

 

oh ok, i did break 11k for the pscore but still had a very hard time getting pass the 9900 for gpu, don't know how moo got 10k.

 

Stick it in a meat freezer ... He had his packed between some frozen steaks ....

 

hahaha really, a freezer!!! wow you guys are really extreme,lol
should i get new york or filet mignon?

 

Double Porterhouse. lol

Here you go Quad...

 

Haha yeah he is extreme ... My interest in benching is gone for ever i think lol... Ill sit back and watch you guys wrack your brains insearch of better numbers...

I cant wait to see some Clevo 480 numbers though ...

Id love to get one of those Clevos again with a 480 but the 10 minutes of battery life just kills it for me... Not to mention the horrible sound system and lack of backlit keys... I can live with the build quality though unlike a couple of my friends who absolutely hated it ...

 

Very nice man... Looks like i have my work cut out for me then... Your 7 degrees lower then me

 

Could be ambient temps involved. The only way to truly test it is to do the test in the same place at the same time.

 

yeah i just recently got into benching, so trying to learn what i can. so the benching bug has gotten me,lol. i'll probably stop once i feel i can no longer push it any further.

wow nice temp mandrake.

 

No that's when you start searching for something else to bench.

 

Yeah thats true... Its probably about 75-76 in my room right now but thats not very hot either ...

Your just making better contact then me from the looks of it ...

Do you spread the paste on your GPUs or just do the drop method ?..

 

Haha i was just going to say the same thing lol...

When your machine can go no further its time to get rid of it ...

 

I do a line. It looks perfect every time I remove the heatsink.

 

Ahh ok well next time i rip it apart ill give that way a shot...

 

hahah, well this is gonna be my baby for awhile, i wished i had the bank rolled to have multiple set ups. well maybe if something really amazing comes along, but i don't see that happening soon.

 

Hopefully your benching itch go's away sooner rather then later and youll be happy with what you have otherwise its going to get costly ....

Mandrake is the perfect example of that ...

If you play your cards right though and dont hold onto anything to long you wont lose to much between machines which is another way around it....

I have not held onto any machine for more then a couple months and im not even benchmarking, i just get bored and need something new....

When i get a new machine the first thing i hear from friends and family is "so when are your selling it ?" ....

 

well then you shouldn't say your looking for a new machine to them as it will happen every time you do just build or order your new system and then sell the one its replacing and this way they could only know once its out the door so you can get a better price for it instead of the 'family/friend' discount.

 

hahhaha, yeah i did that for awhile, but mostly bought used so when i sold it, i don't lose that much. this is the first time i'd actually bought brand new. by far this laptop is the best i've ever had, so its a keeper for sure. well at least till next year,lol.

 

I usually just get excited when i am getting a new system but nowadays they just roll there eyes at me lol... Its the old "Another one?"

These people dont want my old machines either and are happy with there one machine for much longer then i ever could be ..

Sometimes when buying something new part of the fun is sharing the idea with other people but well yeah thats not going so well these days lol..

 

lol they are probably jealous of how many systems you go through a year i am from what you said lol

 

Hey mandrake did u lower the voltage for the card...

Awesome temps man...

 

No that is a stock Clevo card w/ stock vbios. (besides the 750|1050 Quad asked me to do)

 

Yeah and since that is the higher voltage it also means your temps will be lower at the stock Dell voltage .... Good stuff .

 

what did ya do with ur card.... i usually end up at 95c after 10min with stock bios and stock voltages at around 26c room temp....

 

I don't know what the temps are here but I would definitely say cooler than 26c, probably closer to 21c.

How is this boot time...

 

Amazing!!!

 

Opened it up.. and changed the 1mm thermal pads to .5mm pads... here is what i got after 10min furmark



Amazing boot time for a hybrid drive.. Do u find any difference between this and a ssd.. i know u do... what i mean is if it is huge... like the difference between a hdd and a ssd...

 

I figured those .5mm pads were much better ...

 

That would be amazing if it was that drive, lol. I was using my "benchmarking" hard drive which is a Samsung SLC SSD