M17x Benchmarks thread !!!

then get one....what you waiting for?! haha

 

I remember that 182.46 and older worked. I'm home now, I'll try in a bit.

 

Yeah i tried a few sets of older drivers as well and all of them have the garbled screen . i did not try those particular ones though.

 

Hows it coming Quad? Are you pushing the system hard yet?

 

The driver situation is a little intimidating going over to the m17x camp...is part of why I abandoned my whitebook. Why don't the regular nvidia drivers work again?!

 

They work fine.

 

I was under the impression that the drivers directly from Nvidia didn't work properly on this notebook, only the Dell ones. Hopefully I am wrong?

 

The non-hybrid drivers don't.

 

I spent about 8 hours yesterday just trying different things to get my CPU to clock higher and it seems no matter what its happiest at 2.93. I tried every divisor you can think of and both sets of ram all the multipliers etc etc.

With that said im stuck around 11,500 in vantage atm with OCing the GPUs.

68fps is the best i got in Resident Evil 5 with no AA so far.

Crysis seems to be stuck at 30fps which im a little stumped at seeing as the 9262 got 34 fps and the 280s were "supposed" to be 10-15% faster .

Thats pretty much all for the moment . i have been sticking with the 190.38 drivers for now as they are the newest and i still want to run some newer games with the SLI profiles etc.

I also spent a few hours toying around with Win7 and while a nice operating system the performance was the same or maybe even slightly worse for me . I had tried a few sets of drivers on there and a bunch of Vantage runs with the GPUs at stock clocks.

 

Oooooo. So what does that mean, to use the nvidia drivers you have to keep the 9400m enabled?

 

Now that's dedication. The 182.05 drivers do work.

 

I haven't played with the nvidia drivers for a while now but it should be the other way around. They should work with the 9400M disabled. Someone else probably has played with them more recently and can give more info.

 

I see, just trying to gather info before I get my M17x in. I like to hit the ground running

 

Personally I think the best all around drivers are the Dell beta 186.12 drivers... I was able to get 11.5k with my CPU only @ 2.8... and it seems to work the smoothest for gaming as well

 

When you start testing out drivers you'll see what everyone has been talking about with the green pastel and other distorted colors.

 

Judging from the benchmarks and from what a user said about the 10% difference between 260m sli and 280m sli. would it be wiser to stick to 260m sli or is this just a driver issue that could be sorted out in the future?

 

the cards are the exact same only the 280 has 12 more shader processors

 

Got it think ill switch my config to 260m sli then!

 

But the e-value code most buyers I assume are using give you practically a free upgrade to 280m sli from 260m sli... so why not? (There's no option to downgrade with that code)

 

LOL i just tried switching the config to 260m sli with Q9000 from my 280m sli q9000. And after loosing the discount code its actually more expensive. Thats so strange..(

 

Yup your totally right about that. I just figured that out.

 

It's 16 SP (don't change the fact but... )

 

yea if your using that code then mines well get it

 

so any difference in scores from the 182.46?

 

The drivers are not very stable. I have to bring the OC way down just to get 3dmark06 to complete. The highest I've hit with them is 16.2K.

They definitely have potential if I can find a way to run 3dmark without the drivers crashing at higher clocks.

 

I just hit 16604 with the 182.05 drivers. 16620 is still my best with the 182.46 drivers. The difference is the 16620 score was heavily OC'ed. If I can find a way to keep 3dmark stable I could probably hit at least 16.8K.

 

usually with 3dmark..you have to down clock something...they don't like the same high over clocks as vantage...speculation of course...

 

For the 182.46 drivers Vantage and 3damrk worked well with the same clocks. With the 182.05 drivers I have to bring it down just to run but scores are very similar.

 

off topic. I just reallized your avitar is the f7 button on your notebook. lol

 

lol. What did you think it was?

 

idk just not that. I though it was a made up on until I caw one in persons lol.

 

Hmm just out of curiosity what should be an average estimated score for a 3.0ghz dual core with 3mb cache and dual 260's in Vantage and 3dmark 06?

I know no one cares about 3dmark 06 and I will be keeping those scores to my self, but I will post some vantage scores once I get my pc optimized. I will be running both and am curious what kinda numbers do you all think I should be looking at here?

Edit: all with PhysX disabled btw.

 

We haven't had much dual 260 participation. I would assume 13K range for 06 and 9K for Vantage.

 

Expect a whole new slew of benchmarks from me next week.

Hopefully by then more people will be posting scores.

 

Any particular SLI settings in the Nvidia control panel that work best for Vantage and 3dmark 06 or should I just keep it at Nvidia recommended?

And Mandrake did you run your 16k + 3dmark score with PhysX enabled or disabled?

 

I was on Nvidia recommended when I hit my 2 highest scores.

 

My kingdom for a compare of GTX260m SLI and GTX280m SLI using the same clocks and same driver in crysis.

Even better if uploaded in NBD :x

 

and drivers?

 

Doing them with Dox's 182.05 ATM at 600/1500/1000, and my P8600 OC'ed to 3.0ghz, and PhysX disabled.

 

182.46 drivers are more stable when benching. I can do the same w/182.46. All settings very high?

 

Just running 3dmark basic ATM only have the free version. Next I will run Vantage if I have time before my girlfriend gets here.

 

I thought you were running Crysis.

 

lol, No not yet, I don't even have it installed yet, my girlfriend is on her way here, I wont be able to do anything more until around 1 or 2am eastern time tonight after she is asleep.

 

Ok this is what I got so far with PhysX disabled, 600/1500/1000, and the P8600@ 3.0ghz. I can probably do better with better drivers and more optimizations. I have to go for now, I will be back later on around 1 or 2am.

 

yea i was 200 shy of mandrakes best with a x9100 and a 280

you could do 11.2k prolly

 

11K should be within range. 11.5K possibly.

 

your high was 6.4 correct?

If i had that x9100 i could match it

 

Yeah, 6.3K something. I ordered a QX9300 through the HP deal. I want to see what I can do with that. Then I'll be able to determine which is the better proc.

 

that is obvious for gaming x9100 for work qx9300

 

Ok here are my final runs, I can still probably do better if I over volt the GPU's or get a better processor but I wont be over volting or getting a new processor any time soon so this is as good as it gets for the synthetic benchmarks on my M17x for now.

Both runs are with my P8600 @ 3.0ghz with GPU clocks at 690/1725/1065 using Dox 182.05 and PhysX disabled.

I'll probably throw up some Crysis benches tomorrow.