*OFFICIAL* M15x Benchmark Thread

Don't use other card's vbios (I found out the hard way), just get the vbios from your 5850 with WinFlash, change the clocks RBE, and reflash it with ATIflash in a bootable DOS enviroment. zFactor has a great guide to make the flash drive bootable.

 

I tried going to 925 and it froze, so I tried amp the voltage up to 1.2 (up from 1.1) and my AMD GPU tool stopped working for me.

Have to reset to my normal bios.

 

man if you can push 925 that would be insane, did you try 900?

 

Damn i really wanna try flashing it but after reading about the bricked cards i don't think i have it in me >_<

 

someone set me straight here... you guys are talkinn about flashing to set voltages? or stock clocks? vbios? Im not too clear what yall talkign about lol...

I usually associate flashing with setting voltages... somehow im not getting the same impression here...?

 

you can set clocks and voltages with flashing. everything you need i linked in the last page. and rep the wiz for his time writing it for me.
normally i flash to my max stable clocks then oc alittle bit to bench.

 

oh ok so i when i find stable "decent clocks" lets just say... 800/1100 run perfectlyt stable.... i flash my 5850m to keep those clocks as stock...so when i reboot, it'll always keep the OC....

And then from there... when im pushing my card to its limits for benching.. i use AMD gpu clock tools to temporarily OC the clocks for the bench/game/wtv....

correct?

 

yup you got it. geez you learn quick,hahahah

 

lol well its nothing too complicated...and i used to friggin OC cpus/gpus back in the day like crazy...

And flashing a gpu can have several meanings lolll

from flashing to diff stock voltages, to flashing voltages to flashing vbios'...

Wasn't sure what everyone was referring to and i wanted to be on the same page

Thanks buddy! Can't wait to get that badboy now

 

I pretty much do what you described, only instead of high stable overclocks I was trying to undervolt it further. Once I have a card with my Dell warranty I won't care though (and will overclock it to its limit).

 

I just got my first 10k score. P10012. I hit 9615 with a 900/1100 overclock on GPU, but my CPU only scored 11400. :/

 

wow impressive, now need screen shot or it didn't happen, hahahahah

yeah now i'm back to full power, 5870 back in. yea!!!!

 

Well, I broke the 13k barrier. (On 3d06 of course )

 

wow looks like these 5850s are keeping up with dem 5870s .... just purrrfecctt

Cant wait to push mine when it comes

 

wow must have been annoying to make the switch back n forth! LOL... how many times have u reapplied that thermal paste now?

 

wish i could, but i'm in a hotel with ty internet and it struggles to load even notebookreview. I've got the pic on my HDD, but i can really upload it ATM. :S

 

When's this being updated again?

 

I know mb67 and I have been updating on NBF.....

 

Mandrake im getting my 5850m installed tonight, so if everything goes well, and if i have enough time to play around with Oc'ing it... i might be giving you some more work Lol

 

Sounds good.

 

I just hit 5 FPS during the 3DMark06 CPU test. I don't think I've ever seen it do that with any of my notebooks. Not even the G73.

 

Just benchmarked my i7-840QM and OC'd 5850. Any good?

 

Here's a benchmark....highest CPU wattage...lol

 

LOL? it does that cuz it doesn't use the gpu at all for that test. Whats it usually.. like 2-3?

 

Correct, sometimes 4 will blink on quickly.

 

what??? thats insane, hahahah so what score did you get for the cpu?

 

Hey guys! Not to repeat post and be annoying or anything, but I'm gonna do just that :O haha. What do you think of my 3D Mark 06 score?

 

6500

 

wow 6500 geez. gave us all a chance why don't cha,lol

and zcwickliffe your score are good man, keep it up.

 

Your score is fine but you GPU temps are way too hot.

 

I suppose everyone here knows about the CPU Overclocking? We got it working today!! Check my sig for a link and let's get those benches up

 

I donno if you guys read the throttling thread but...


DELL GAVE ME A 5870M BY ACCIDENT!!!


AHAHAHAH!!!!! woooooooo! IM SO HAPPY!

except its supposed to be in a m17x, and right no wits in my m15x, installed with 5850m drivers from the dell site. Mandrake! help! what do i do first! ( i remeber reading it can get bricked somehow if i do sumtin wrong?)

Heres the proof im not lying (as this sounds too good to be true even for me!)

 

Mine has the same card in it right now. You can use any driver you want to....install one and enjoy.

 

Thermal paste is going on in a few days, as soon as I get a new tube of thermal paste (went with IC7 this time). As far as the temps go, is there anything else other than raising the back end that I can do to lower them? The CPU temps are just fine as you can see, It's the GPU I need cooled.

 

I use a Cryo NZXT which works well.

 

which drivers you using mandrake?

The dell guy absolutely had no idea what to do. first time he saw an alienware. He watched me do everything LOL.

I forgot ocz freeze in my car which my brother has! so he use dthe chepa crap dell uses.. but to my surprise.. im idling at 46~47C. BFBC2 maxed out at 70C. Petty good so far?

 

I'm using Cat 10.5 right now but I know 10.6 works also.

 

Those are great temps... I would not even bother replacing the paste again since there is always the off chance it might get worse .... You have been warned ....

 

Lol yea but how good can the generic stuff dell uses be? Those temps are good even for stock clocks?

 

Paste is not your problem with Temp 1 (core) at 71.5*C, that is excellent. The high temps are the memory chips (95*C), which would suggest pad issues. But more fundamentally, 1187.5 is a very aggressive overclock on the 5850. You can probably drop it back to 1100 +/- with little or no decrease in performance, but a measurable reduction in temps. Then try easing the core to 825 or 850. You may end up with more performance and less heat overall.

 

I found out something interesting- I installed the ATI Stream program and set the 5850 at 850/1075 then ran 3dMark Vantage. I had to stop the benchmark due to the really low frame rates.

 

Bloody awesome!!! WOOOHOOO!! Nice one buddy

 

Now here's the interesting part- I ran 3d06 and with Stream installed it increased my score a little.

 

Honestly i use OCZ freeze like you planned to but if your load temps are good then just leave it as is (if your capable of that as i can never leave stuff alone and sometimes regret it ) ..

Run Furmark for 10 minutes and show us your temps thats really all you need to do ... This will tell if you have good contact or not....

 

ok just did that... ran it for 13minutes actually...

temps fluctuated between 80-81 degrees celcius @ stock clocks.

How that? I'd say thats pretty good no? For standard paste

 

It depends what part of the GPU that was. If that was the vram that's amazing, if it's the core it's typical but still good.

 

#1 74
#2 80-81
#3 75

So what's what exactly? I'm new to the 5870m n i havent rlly been following in the past when i had my crappy 260m. Man oh man im loving this card

 

The hottest one there is the vram, and that's an awesome temperature. I wouldn't touch anything there. Try overclocking it now!

 

Very nice temps. Don't change a thing.

 

Yeah certainly just leave it like it is .... Dont even tempt yourself into thinking you can make it better because the odds are you wont ....