*OFFICIAL* M15x Benchmark Thread

oki doke! lol

 

now should i flash my vbios with the one mandrake uploaded before benching?

 

Which bios is that ?...

Editing the bios with RBE is a no brainer honestly..

Either way dont get to crazy to fast and brick your card ...

 

I'll try keeping that in mind

and i dunno this one

http://forum.notebookreview.com/6344830-post1360.html

 

Honestly you are better off editing your own bios ...

Here is a great tutorial that Drake wrote on flashing the 4870s and if you download everything he tells you to and follow the instructions to the T you will be fine.... scroll down a little on that page..

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread230061.html

Tonight what you should do is just some basic testing with the AMD GPU tool.... Overclock and test for stability etc....

If you want an everyday permanent overclock i would suggest something like 750/1050... Maybe a bit higher depending on your temps..

You have all the time in the world so no reason to rush into anything i would say...

 

Agreed. I think those are the vbios I bricked my Clevo card with.

 

WOW!!

Those are some AMAZING temps. Running furmark for about 15 minutes nets me
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I'm very jealous

 

yikes, no. We were flashing the MSI vbios on the Clevo cards. You'll brick the AW card if you do that.

 

Any particular reason you were flashing to that vbios?

 

It allowed ATI overdrive to work.

 

so thank god it didnt work for me then! LOL

Also, is there a way to get overdrive to work on the dell vbios? Not that i really need it...

 

WOW... those are good temps then!

where do u live? Somewhere really hot im guessing? Well its hot here too actually but my house is always a cool 23degrees celcius so

 

So you tried to flash that bios anyhow ? but failed to do so ? lol...

 

Don't know....Quadzilla was saying it worked for him before.

 

lol got the mismatch msg and it failed cuz i used the "-fs" switxch instead of "-f" ... THANK GOD... or i would've blew my chance of having a 5870m that Dell gave me by accident... and wouldve had a bricked card.

What i'm thinking now is... Does Dell have a 5850m on my spec sheet under warranty? or a 5870m? how can i check this?

 

I'd call them to verify. I wouldn't worry about if it shows up as a 5850 or 5870.

 

Yeah i would not worry about it sine they are the same exact card just with a different part number on them....

Thankfully that flash didnt work but its to bad you didnt listen to my warning....I told you to wait till tomorrow before getting crazy :tongue: ....

As for overdrive how i got it working was by installing a modded driver i found in the Asus section though im not even sure where i found that driver now... It was based on 10.5...

 

I had OC fever last night . Couldn't help it. Luck struck twice for me i guess so far lol... maybe i should try my luck on the Lotto this week, as after all, good things are said to come in Threes...

 

Here are some benchmarks to compare the 720Stock and Overclocked

FSB Speed: 133 150
Memory Speed: 1333 1500
720QM Speed: 1.6-2.8 2.0-3.2

Everest:
Memory Read: 14106 15670
Memory Write: 11500 12461
Queen: 19747 22125
Zlib: 55184 61674

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

 

Hahaha j man, read all your post.lol your one lucky dog. So what's up let's see some numbers Hahaha.

 

haha thanks man best part is, if getting a 5870m wasn't enough dell is sending me an additional 9cell battery (i have a 6cell) and a replacement fan (that i don't need really, but i'll keep as backup )

so if i calculate.... 5870 = 350$, 9cell = 150$ fan=30$

thats what? 530$ worth of upgrades ... just for complaining ... not bad... worth every second of it

and yea i would LOVE to post some numbers... but it'll have to wait till i get home tonight.... im at work

 

Are these temps on normal air or "cold air"? I just need an idea of what i need to prepare.

 

Yeah those are air conditioned temps ...

HD at 13 degrees is one indicator ...

 

Thanks. I had a feeling it was when i saw the temp of the drive...damn even air conditioned the temp went as high as 70s on the cpu.

 

its mandrake, no one pushes the the cpu harder then he does, hahahah

 

Here is MaxxMem...

Stock 920 w/ Kingston HyperX non-XMP 1333 CAS7


Stock 920 w/ Kingston HyperX XMP 1600 CAS9


The processor speed and the amount of memory you have affects this benchmark.

 

Smashed my record and my PS didn't even pop!...weeeeee!

 

wow 121watts hahahhaha, geez did your psu melt after that run.lol

 

No but I won't do that again. I just hooked up the 240W PS but I have no idea at this point if it makes a difference.

 

Hey guys, quick question. You know how the GPU will lower its clock when there isn't much stress on it? Well mine will do it occasionally in games when the load goes down to zero, but the load will quickly go back up and the clock speed takes a second to get up there, resulting in a good couple of seconds of glitchy gameplay at 20fps. Is there any way to stop this? By stop it I mean lock it on a certain clock speed? Neither rivatuner nor atitools has worked with my setup and I would prefer it if I didn't have to install anymore software but I will if I have to. Thanks a bunch guys!

 

Stock or OC'ed? hmmmmm.....

 

Good one.

"Dell stock"?

/10char

 

Too obvious?

 

So....... don't mean to brag but....

P10515

gpu: 10163

cpu: 11736

 

suuuuuweeeet! 990? What cooling are you using?

Not only did they hook you up with a 5870, they hooked you up with quite the over-clocking version.

 

only a fan blowing air over M15x...temps didnt pass 73..moslty 60s...ambient temps 22.0C

I think i might be able to push it further.. at those core clocks i feel like the memory is causing a bottle neck

EDIT: LOLL i know!!!! I told you good things come in threes! Also, i took a closer look at the paste dell tech used..because even when ocing my temps are fantastic ( i must have done the best paste job i've ever done in my life lol...and stuck thermal pads everywherrree too lol ) and its Shin-Etsu Microsi ... never used it before.. btu ive heard good things about it! he left me the tube.

Explains the good temps!

 

Did you try above 1100?

I need to down-clock my 920 to give my 5870 more head room.

 

1000 crashed... not sure if its because there is a limiter on the bios or something... how can i check? the limiter on RBE are shaded grey... does that mean they are open?

 

Wait. What the @*#@?
How is your stock clock 850MHZ. Did you like get a freaking 5870 on roids? XD

On the other hand. I almost bricked my M15x by cranking up the ram to 1600 mhz in the BIOS. After 20 attempts to start up, it finally started and I cranked it back down to 1333.

 

nope, your system should limit it before the vbios would. Do you have any kind of AC unit you can try? Central AC in the house?

 

That means he flashed it to 850 then went higher within Windows.

 

Im fed up of benching right now... but tomorrow ill try to trash the 3dmark06 gpu benchies

 

That's it? Already?

 

Yea i've been benching since 730 LOL ( its 8:53 here)... i go up slowly...

Ok ok fine, ill try increasing the mem clocks to wtv is stable.... and to answer your previous question.. i have central so i cant do the AC mod ... btu i got a MEAN fan that'll peel your face back

 

Can it get your GPU temps into the teens before starting? Cooling is the most important aspect. Before I got my portable AC unit I was putting my system on top of a vent in our house and cranked up the AC.

 

actually i start benching at 45degrees... but doesnt go past 73 or so when benching...

Quick question... before i fry my card... heat IS THE ONLY WAY you can fry your card right...? unstable clocks that crash are harmless right...? LOL... wouldn't want this gem to die on me now...

 

wut 990, geez man they hook you up with the golden key alright. congrats man, been trying to get 10k for awhile and you did it in 1 day, i offically hate you, hahahah really.

 

New score..makes my old one look liek child's play... and i think my cpu deserves some credit..remember..this is on a i7 720qm here... my goal is to break 11k

the gpu still has some juice left..havent reached its limit

P10725
gpu: 10309 cpu: 12204

oh yeah.. and the proof

 

Now i'm offically fed up of watching vantage runs for the night.. i'll continue tomorrow and run 3dmark06

 

geez man 995, holy hell. o6 not as fun as vantage, its more cpu then gpu. but congrats, i hate you so much right now, hahahahah.