M17x Benchmarks thread !!!

i was talkign to some people and i just couldn't justify the performance for the cost ecause i would never use it ... believe me i wanted to try it

 

Your right moo and honestly i would just stick with what you have now . 3.0ghz dual core is plenty for what you want . Was a very smart move to stick with the base CPU and not even step up one bit into the p8700 or anything else for that matter.

 

True enough... I personally need the Quad buy you really have no use for it at this point... so smart move I know I tried to convince you but you didn't listen, good for you!

 

well when i start to lag ill upgrade in a heartbeat stingy college kid needs to convince himself first

 

TBH while more cache is good i can't really find a reason to upgrade from P8600 if u r going to dual (3.0ghz rocks ).

But i want QUAD! Q9200 or Q9000 unh unh...

 

Assuming you don't try to work off battery it's fine.

 

I want the 3.2Ghz proc they are starting to talk about with the new Core i5.

 

The new I7's mobiles from what I've seen from Intels release and such actually have relatively low Clock speeds... more around the 2.0 ghz range

They are talking about the ability to overclock to 3.2

 

Core i5-750 is 2.66Ghz to 3.2Ghz.

 

These are the upcoming Clarksfield I5 mobiles? aren't there also upcoming I7 mobiles? I wonder if we could install a new mobo and I7's in our M17x's when they update the M17x with the I5's and I7's

 

I come from the future saying no.

 

Why not? is it not entirely feasible.... you have the same exact shell...

 

only 1 core that went from 2.66 to 3.2 ghz from what I've known.

 

Nevermind I just saw they are 95W so they are not mobile procs.

 

They'll just come out with a new system.

 

For some reason I don't quite believe that... I think they designed this new shell to be able to fit the new I7 mobiles when they come out as well... by this I mean use the same shell

 

say mr biscuits, mind if i ask what line of work do you do ?

 

say mr. zilla, mind if i ask what line of work do you do ?

 

Same shell? Sorry, buzzed again.

 

I highly doubt they will have two system board options. Then again whoever thought we'd see ATI and Nvidia cards in the same system so anything can happen.

 

Haha... Full time student, and right now I'm working at Block Buster... lol
Headed off to college on August 20th

 

Well my thought were they spent soo much time and money on the design of this new system, and it has fantastic cooling that would work with the new Clarksfield Procs as well... so feasible I think so, but who really knows....

 

Again, $50 Paypal'ed says it's not going to happen.

 

They'll just keep this system selling as long as they can and introduce a new line. I don't think it makes sense to keep the same shell. They have to keep things new and fresh.

 

Ahh whatever my system will be plenty good for a few years

 

We still haven't seen this for a fact

 

Again newer faster CPUs would always be a good thing but ill take new cards over CPU's any day of the week .

 

I am already so tired of this Mobile i5 debate ... its not gonna happen PERIOD


Besides in my service manual its listed as a feature "Support for SLI /Crossfie"

 

Im not the least bit concerned about the Mobile i5 and im sure as heck not excited about a CPU that overclocks one core at the moment lol .

New ATI Cards and new NVIDIA cards /bring it on.

 

Yep, GT300/RV870 will be the real deal. I'm excied to see how the new extreme mobile i7 performs, but I'm keeping expectations pretty low.

As for quad vs duo.... I don't even see a point in having something between the slowest and fastest CPUs If you don't need the speed, even the slowest core duo is plenty fast. If you want speed, $400 could have nabbed you the top dog, a really good deal...mine has never given me a single error @2.93.

 

Qx9300s are now a minimum of $520.00 and i paid that exact amount for the OEM Qx9300 when i had my W90 .

Im going to give the Q9200 a whirl though, im hoping/expecting good things from it 2.93ghz should be a no brainer for that CPU and at less then half the cost to boot.

If it does not work as im expecting it should ill just sell it and snag a Qx9300 at that point but for what i paid i can turn right around and sell it for the same, so its a win win scenario for me either way.

 

Right now I'm feeling if I could find a good QS T9900 for around $300 or less, or if AW offered it as an option instead of the T9800 I'd buy one and forget about a quad until my next laptop.

 

Vantage 11929

 

nice your getting there. did you try any more tweaks in order to get this or you went stock. did you have nhancer installed?

what were your clocks now and what driver did you use.

 

Tweaking the different SLI settings, no nhancer, clocks = 690|1065|1660, same driver Dox 182.46.

 

ok that's great news. van you bring your shader clock up alittle.
1675?

 

almost there mandrake, if you hit 12k maybe it will get me motivated again to try benching mroe, right now just playin the games like this beast was meant too.

 

This is what i always like to hear

 

i'm playing prototype amd that new x-men game.

 

Both great games Dahdah i beat the Xmen game twice lol , big Wolverine fan .

 

i wasn't a big fan of him and i thought this game was going to be bad because all he has was claws but oh no. way different from what i excepted.

prototype is very nice. i like how you can just fight anyone any way you want. i'm looking for more games like these. i also have dmc4 but i beat it on my 360. i don't know to much pc games like this.

(i want god of war to be on pc )

 

You need to buy GTA4 one of these days for sure. I wish they would come out with a benchmarking demo for people to try as i think this the game to push your system to the limit and tell what its really made out of .

 

i was going to buy it from someone for 20 dollars but i don't like gta4(i would just benchmark it, break records, uninstall, then see someone try to get close to me, then reinstall, break it again and then uninstall. lol. i'm just playing)

but i'm thinking about it. maybe in a little bit (two weeks) i'll do it.

 

Changing the shader seems to cause the most instability. I will of course still try it again.

 

Ideally you want 1:2.5 core/shader ratio... try 690/1725 for the hell of it.

 

690|1065|1725

 

Well...what's next?

 

look like it would take a 700 core to break 12k to me unless better drivers come out that are able to oc as high

 

700/1750 crash!

 

What do you think the memory setting should be at?