*OFFICIAL* M15x Benchmark Thread

I woulc advice against using a screw driver to get it pried open. I pry it open with my bare fingers. A screwdriver might leave marks on the plastic

 

Yeah I made that mistake once on another laptop and left a nice big gouge on the bottom, even though it was on the bottom and nobody could see it i knew it was there and I was PO, now I usually use a credit card or something similar to get stubborn parts apart.

 

Yeah I own a few plastics tools for that sort of job but the M15x is easy enough to do it with your fingers.

 

yeah thats what my first tech did, used a screw driver to pry it open, and i was like you know your gonna have to replace that place now.lol
once unscrew from the bottome just use your fingers and from the back just pull up and both side will snap up, then just tilt the screen back and the center part will snap up automatically.

 

Wow that video link was nice!

I didn't think there was a teardown video already. I guess that negates the need for me to do a video of me taking mine apart

 

The M15x is incredible easy to service with one exception. The touch strip is a huge pain. Once that's off, it's all just screws and sliding things.

 

I will be looking for the PLL tommorrow to help with the overclo0cking efforts.

I will have 2 M15x's so I should be able to read one

 

What is it that makes it hard to read? I remember Mandrake posting a picture he took of his M15x PLL, but it wasn't possible to read the numbers. I'm not sure if this is because the print wears off, or just because it's very small, and the lighting was not optimal. Is the numbering next to or on the PLL itself?

I'd be really curious as to how far an i7-620m could be taken. cleverpsudonym's i5-5x0 wen to almost 4GHz if I remember correctly.

 

LOL Ikas finally found a laptop?!

congrats 2 u

Sorry to take off topic but I noticed you've been looking as long as I have by now (year give or take). Hope all goes well!

 

Yup!
I took me longer than I thought, to tell you the truth I never even gave the M15x a second look when it had the 260 GTX but things have changed for the better, performance and price wise.
It's going to be a long day when I get this laptop in a good way

 

Wait. How do you use throttle stop to increase performance?
Could anyone enlighten me about it?

 

unfortunately... you got the 820qm like i do... so we can't.. only extreme cpu's can be OC'd. But if your just talking about throttling...then all you gotta do is open throttlestop,and turn it on.

 

Damn. That sucks.

 

no you can oc but not just yet we need someone to get the pll off the motherboard so we can start ocing then

 

just got off work and I am going to bestbuy now to return the Ipad and once I get back i will tear into mine to try and find it ...

Mandrake told me but I just have to find the pic he posted to be sure

 

good luck man i can't tear mine apart right now as i don't have certain supplies to re-paste etc. not that im out of paste(just got a fresh tube) just other cleaning supplies can't stand a fraction of dust.

 

here you go: mandrakes pic, its the one in the middle with all the pins.

http://img716.imageshack.us/f/dsc02086u.jpg/

 

I just ran 3dMark 06 on my M15X (i7 720QM, HD5850)-



Oc'd a little bit to 750/1050-

 

Guys I need more then myself to find this pll

Come help

 

Is it on the top or bottom of the motherboard? I'm also not sure of exactly what to look for.

 

No one is sure

I thinl on top but I can't be sure

 

What we really need is somebody who's doing something that requires the M15x to be completely disassembled, who can take a picture of both sides of the motherboard with a really good camera.

 

He has the motherboard out of the machine right now .... http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/498520-join-pll-hunt-overclocking-every-one.html

Its just a matter of finding the right chip....

My machine is already a boxxed and sealed up(brand new replacement comes monday then gos up for sale) other wise i might have ripped it apart to look myself.....

 

i'll be doing that next week when my case comes back from powder coating, i'll try to find a good camera.

 

You need a real nice camera but I don't have that sadly.

Just look for interestging chips


CPUCooL

I have stigmatisms in my eyes so I'm going to have every chip wrote down by the wife

 

Hey guys, I'm finally back in Iraq. Was home on leave for almost three weeks. I've missed almost 65 pages worth of benchscores, and would like to get it updated for you all. If you could please repost your top scores only, it would sure save me a lot of reading and reorgainizing as I see there are new players and updates. I'd certainly appreciate it.

Thanks!
Dan

 

I think I have an astigmatism in at least one eye as well. Curse these oblong lenses!

We can just Google all the chip names once we have them written down.

+1 rep for getting this search going, overclocking will be fun!

 

I have 20/20 vision and I couldn't see it. lol I guess I just had a bad angle or something.

 

Welcome back. I'm sure you read about the advances in throttlestop.

 

Thanks! Yea, I caught it on my way out while waiting in Kuwait. Now I can OC the 1720 if I had the X9000. Does it work with i7 CPUs like the 920 and 940? That was one question I didn't hang around long enough to see

 

Yeah work for 920 and 940. Even heard it working with the I5

 

Nice, can't wait to get my M17x and 940 tommorrow! Should be here by now

 

I'll bench it once mine actually gets here.

 

The 5850 and the 5870 are really the same thing, only the clocks are different.

 

I've asked for people top resubmit the top scores of the last 3.5 weeks. I don't have the time to go through 70+ pages since I went home for leave. Hopefully people will submit something I can work with.

 

We've had discussions about letting hwbot organize it for us. We just haven't had anyone take the leadership role on it yet.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...benchmark-thread-suggestions.html#post6443185

 

I've been reading up on that. I think it'd be great, but a lot of work involved. Hopefully someone has the time and drive to step up to it. Is that a 5870 card? or 5850?

 

My highest score at the moment

 

it's the 5870 but it is the Alienware card not the Clevo.

 

i didn't know there was a diff. between the two?

 

The biggest difference is one is red and the other is green.

Actually my second Clevo card is dead and I didn't even benchmark with it. With the Alienware 5870 I pushed it hard in benchmarking and gaming and I have no issues with it. I also have a 5850 coming in for warranty purposes.

 

lol which ones the green one.. the one from dell im guessing?

and yea im fighting for dell to replace my 260m with a 5850m, and i'm pretty much almost there (i get an answer tues-weds)... and i'm planning on buying a 5870m later in the fall... unless my 5850 can push the same OC'd clocks as the 5870m (apparently there are some in circulation out there that can). Hope i get lucky

 

mandrake how much cost the dell 5850?

 

it would be cheaper to get a clevo 5870 trust me

 

yes, but i want to have warranty on it, from dell i mean

 

Rensey has a 5850 for sell in the marketplace for $290.

 

im going to see it

 

The red ones are the Dell ones and the green ones are Clevo's.

 

I've either had bad luck or there is an issue with the Clevo card in these systems.

Yes, Dell charges $300 and it will be covered by warranty and the Dell card is red with a crossfire connection on it.

 

i stand very much corrected ... huh ... dell you surprise me