M17x Benchmarks thread !!!

Lol. i guess you need to play with the ram more. it's a start just not a big one. lol.

anyway i'll mess with the ram more on my side and see what's up with it. just try one more setting before you overclock

set the prerender limit to 8 and see what happens. then depending on if it's higher or not you can change it or leave it alone.

also overclocking should get you more then 300 points as it did stock. you will push the gpu's faster giving you a faster score and then then the extra tweaking will do the rest.

 

OK, re-running now. Still have that goal of 12K in Vantage to hit.

 

but of course with tweak you should break 12k in vantage.

 

DX9

System Information
Operating system: Windows (TM) Vista Home Premium
System memory: 7933 MB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q9300 @ 2.53GHz
CPU speed: 3066 MHz
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M - 0 MB
VGA benchmark information
Demo: Crytek Built-in
Quality: Very High (with tweaks)
Renderer mode: DirectX 9
Antialising mode: Off
Filtering mode: None
MultiGPU support: Enabled
Boost renderer: Disabled
Use Custom Config File: No
Random .exe: Disabled



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Resolution: 1920×1200 (HD WideScreen)
Result(1): Minimum= 27 FPS Average= 34 FPS Max= 49 FPS











DX 10

System Information
Operating system: Windows (TM) Vista Home Premium
System memory: 7933 MB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q9300 @ 2.53GHz
CPU speed: 3066 MHz
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M - 0 MB
VGA benchmark information
Demo: Crytek Built-in
Quality: Very High (with tweaks)
Renderer mode: DirectX 10
Antialising mode: Off
Filtering mode: None
MultiGPU support: Enabled
Boost renderer: Disabled
Use Custom Config File: No
Random .exe: Disabled



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Resolution: 1920×1200 (HD WideScreen)
Result(1): Minimum= 15 FPS Average= 20 FPS Max= 31 FPS


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these scores are not right?

 

Run the other Crysis benchmark tool.

 

Scored 15902.

 

that's overclocked???

 

what other tool is that?

 

No just the pre-render limit set to 8.

 

This one. LINK

 

oh ok just set it back to 1 then but restart it before you run it overclocked. you've ran a ton of over benchmarks and it's more stable and you'll get better results when there's nothing left in you ram.(for me whitebook this applied not so much my sager. after two runs with my whitebook scores got lower and lower but for my sager it stood the same.)

 

ok, thank will try that, maybe the other one was screwed up as i tested my framerates in game and it was what i'd expect wth sli there. will try this tool and see if it seems right

 

Driver crash on the first run. This is normally a stable OC setting for me. I'll bring it down a notch.

 

You put the file in the main crysis directory . So if crysis were installed in C:\Program Files\Crysis <--- inside that one.


When running the benchmark you should see Multigpu at the top as well.

Another thing you may want to try while the benchmark is running is hitting Alt enter and see if your framerates change from this You can usally hit it 3 times and one of those is to run the game in a window while the other 2 are full screen sometimes one is outta whack in terms of speed and yours could defaulting to this one.

 

yeah i figured that, that is where i put it but it still seems to only get around 22fps on average.

 

16185 after the OC. I'm going to run Vantage one more time before checking out for the night.

 

i don't know what i did, even with the new tool point out by mandrake i was getting just around 22, but all of sudden it i started to get 30 to 31 fps average on crysis which is what i expected.

 

Vantage didn't run any better. More playing tomorrow.

 

ok i understand. i'll pm you with my thoughts.

 

new 186.24 driver now available at laptopvideo2go. So far i've heard some good comments about this driver, has anyone tried it yet on the M17x? I may give it a shot tonight afterwork.

 

So are there benchmark numbers around?

 

there are 147 pages before this one, did you read them? did you use the search this thread function? if not then if you don't put the effort in, no one will waste the effort to answer.

Edit: just to help you out, use the search this thread function and search for "kcissem", "Mandrake", "Clauss" as we were the ones doing most of the testing in this thread.

 

I don't mind answering. It's a lot to muck through to find the juicy bits.

Ya gotta dig through the whole thread to find them.

The best benches really should be added to the first post.

 

that is what moo was trying to do, i sent him some of my numbers which are on the first post.

 

Lot of good numbers in this thread, but who has scored the highest so far to anyones knowledge? For example has anyone gone above 17,000 in 3dmark 06 ? If I missed it my bad....

 

mandrake is 11909 on gpu score for vantage and kcissem is 16690 i believe for 3dmark06

 

^^^

he states the current highs and who has it.

 

new drivers, 186.24 NO GPU OC.

3dmark06 scored about 400 points higher than i did with dox182.46 with no gpu oc, actually broke 16k with no oc on the gpus





Same thing on vantage stock scores jumped about 300 from the scores i had with dox182.46




Edit: yes i know i forgot to turn off physiX for the vantage run, doesn't affect the gpu score anyways.

 

Go for 17K!

 

it seems your fine now. i had a big list of test for you also.

now push them.

 

yeah i thought so too, my sm2 scores are about what it was with the gpu oc now must have been the drivers for whatever reason.

i will try a run at 650|1025|1650

 

score barely improved, it seems as it's not taking the gpu oc now, score only improved by 100 in 06, sm2 scores dropped by 300

 

I just installed the new driver. I was going to see how it did in Vantage and DMC4.

Edit: I'm watching vantage as it goes and the FPS looks the same.

 

my stock scores improved quite bit, but doesn't seem overclocking is working on the gpu, maybe it'a nvidia system tool issue.

 

download the new 6.05 one. and make sure you don't have ntune installed.

 

i already have the 6.05 installed and ntune was not installed at the time, it is now of course. i upped my clocks a bit more and actually score less than the last run. going to try a vantage just to see if anything changes there

 

I definitely can't OC as high and the scores are not changing.

 

then that driver isn't good.

switch back or try a different one. i'll try it meanwhile.

 

I think the newer drivers might do better with the gaming benchmarks.

 

So guys, I have this extra copy of Half life 2 and episode 1... I'm assuming you already have them?

 

my vantage score did improve to 11,3k over stock which is still 300 short of my best but i've yet to try my max core again, but 3dmark06 doesn't change

 

i'm thinking so also, i'm going to play more with them before i try another set of drivers.

i do think these drivers will end up being around the same in vantage, they just must have issues with 3dmark06 with oc settings as i noticed fps improvements the minmum also lowers so it averages out around the same as stock. Vantage it seems to be a different story.

 

yeah these drivers are bad as far as overclocking ability goes, stock setting they are better for me. I really wish i could get the 185.20 drivers to work since i've read so many reports that they are the king of vantage.

 

i'm downloading them and i will try later.

would you like to see how your gpus are doing. maybe it will shine light for everyone(i was going to tell you this when troubleshoot your card.)

 

What do you mean?

 

what is that?

 

http://redirectingat.com/?id=525X83...eb.id/files/EVGA_Precision_160_esoftwebid.exe

download this and


make sure all your gpu's clocks (the 9400m also)
are showing when you benchmark. this is to see if your overclocking your 9400m or it's sli'ing wrong. also the temps are important to see what's running.

 

will do, i'm looking for other drivers to try right now, what do you think of the xtreme-g drivers?

 

Pretty small tool. I will play with it tomorrow, it's late for me. By the way my 9400M is completely disabled and out of the picture. Doesn't even show up in device manager.

 

i have tried to use them but the moddied inf is important. which doesn't support mobile cards. i put the device id in and the other important thing to identify the cards but it still doesn't work(not easy like ati)

if you put the inf form laptopvideo2go it will work but then it will defeat the purpose of using them.

at mandrake then i guess your good. just a nice little tool i found last night.