*OFFICIAL* M15x Benchmark Thread

Should I sell my Clevo 5870 after the RMA and buy a Dell 5850?

 

Might not be a bad idea and then you can possibly have the 5850 added to your existing warranty...

 

Yeah, that way if I do something stupid again, I can just complain to Dell (since I have Complete Care on my M15x).

 

that and you'll get a new 5850 next day (if it ever dies)

 

What kind of price would make a brand new Clevo MR 5870 with a W870CU heatsink move fast?

I'd be willing to take a loss and sell it for $290 just to move it fast.

 

Question about turbo in the BIOS.
Enable or disable for better performance?
So far I can't tell the difference.
RAM voltage in the BIOS leave it stock or does it help to raise it?

 

Im sure if you sold it for $290.00 shipped with the Heatsink it should not take to long to sell...

 

Leave turbo on and leave RAM voltage stock.

 

Ok!
Will raising the RAM voltage not make it work?
Burn out?

 

no it just doesnt matter since you cant OC yet

 

yeah once you start talking about adjusting the bclk with setfsb then you can try adjusting memory voltage to see if you can get better stability out of your system.

 

right now i'm bugging dell to get my 260m replaced with a 5850, things are looking good, hopefully get some good new by tomorrow or wednesday.

 

Same here .. hey inap which 5870s is babyhemi selling? the clevos?

 

well, tomorrow Ill have to attack again for a 5850.

yes, babyhemi is selling clevo's, where sound over hdmi doesnt seem to work

 

Just got a 9.6k on Vantage.

GPU @ 8955. SO CLOSE TO 9k!!!!!

 

you still have to beat 10,067 on the GPU

 

hey inap.. didn't u get ur 5870 fixed... and sorry guys... been out for a while now,... but i am back... so hows the pll hunt going.... and looks like jstar is back finally...

 

there was only 1 ICS chip on the board but mandrake is trying a hunch and Abo is working with him ....

He is out for the day so who knows

 

no got a new 5870, trying to get a 5850 from dell. have to gave them a call. did testing with the 260m, and now it throttles on everything.

 

Those scores are from a 825/1100 overclock. Any higher and Vantage crashes. Probably can't get more than 8.95k.

 

those scores are great considering its the 5850, moo was a 5870.

 

yup im back .. and if i get 9k with my 5850.. id be happy

 

your getting a 5850 from dell?

 

i think he is still waiting for a response from dell.

 

Yes! I got P9855 and 9253 on GPU.

825/1200 overclock.

I tried going 1300 and then it crashed my computer.

 

wow 1200 memory thats amazing, i find anything over 1150 to be unstable and thats with a 5870.

 

nice score bro

 

Either my 5850 can handle memory clocks well or just the fact that I ran my M15x with a 10k BTU A/C blowing into it's vents.

 

holy Moses awesome cpu score

 

awesome scores miahsol, so is that the max you can push the core? try lowering the memory and just focusing on the core.

 

Pushing the core will require some over-volting for stability.


On a side note, for those looking to buy the 5850 I ordered one on the 5th of July and the delivery has been delayed twice. My current ETA is the 19th.

 

wow major delays, probably back ordered

 

Alright, I need some advice- I ran the PCMark Vantage and my score was in the upper 6,000 range. Before running I upped the speeds via AMD's gpu clock tool to 850/1100 and verified that PowerPlay was disabled.

Here's my question- What am I missing that is making my scores on all benchmarkings so low? I may not be an expert at overclocking but something is really wrong to get scores so low. (My 3d06 is in the upper 12,000's)

 

PROTIP: Use 3dmark Vantage instead of PCmark Vantage.

 

everyone have listed there 3dmark vantage score not PCmark vantage... try 3dmark vantage....

EDIT: U beat me to it Sirhcz0r...

 

I already did- The scores were about the same.

 

Post GPU-Z and CPU-Z with the Vantage run so we can get a better idea of what's going on.

Also, get ThrottleStop.

 

Technically not yet... im waiting for my answer by tues/weds...

but im not accepting no for an answer... so you can say that

man oh man i can't wait to OC that baby... Just ordered a fresh tube of ocz freeze too

 

Oh, sorry, I did that with 3D06...

 

Set GPU-Z so it makes a log, which will make looking for throttling easy.

 

Change the power scheme to high performance also.

 

Run ThrottleStop with the Log File option checked while running a benchmark. It will show you if your CPU has a throttling problem and is not running at full speed.

 

here are my reposted scores, but mandrake killed them all, hahahha

 

really nice scores inap congrats, the second or third place is for you sure

 

sniff sniff... i smell photoshop... LOLL jk just bustin \inap

 

hahahah thanks guy, but mandrake already killed these scores by a big margin, using the new throttle stop. waiting for a reply from dell, then i will put back my 5870 and test out the new throttle stop.

 

good luck with this then

 

Alright, I checked my Throttling, upped the clocks to 800/1050 (Anything higher than that and 3d06 crashes :|) and the scores went up:

 

wow great score mb67!!!! also you may want to resize the pic, alittle too big bro.

 

Thanks. It makes me wonder if I can get any higher by using different thermal paste, or getting an arctic chiller for it?