M17x Benchmarks thread !!!

Can you post screen shots of your memory timings @ 1066 and 1333?

 

You know what I meant mandrake. Fsb same as ram. Regarding that w90, using an awesome desktop chipset will do that for you haha. That is actually a really weak fsb OC for that chipset

 

Yeah but that's like a 60% OC.

 

416 is above 1:1 (for the sake of argument that is..lol)

edit: but i dont go by that..i go by what works for what im testing... so if i can crank the fsb up to 400 while my ram starts at 800 and gets close to 1333...chances are good my over clock will be stable at the stock voltages. if the cas is 7, i might run it at 8-8-8-20 instead of 7-7-7-18. just for the extra head room and higher over clock of ram....nothing is set in stone as mentioned before...they are all guidelines...it's you as the user who is willing to either go farther or stay stuck...but without experimenting...you will never know....

 

All I would need is to set the memory to 832 and I'd be in business.

 

now your getting it!
what happens when you try over clocking from 1333? you can't go to far, but if you start over clocking at 1066 and work up to 1333..then you gain the extra bandwidth the faster the memory operates at. if you have some hella good ram that over clocks from 1333 up to 1600, then you wouldn't need to drop down to 1066 or 800 and then clock back up.


grrrrrrrr, kind of wish i did get one of these to play with for a month. i would have figured this whole thing out by now. because i would keep it benching for about 3 weeks str8 time trying to understand what's good and what's a waste of time....

 

I've been trying the memory at slower speeds rather than faster because of the FSB limitation.

 

is that how you got you last set of records?

 

No. The last set of records I just went with 1:2.

 

There's alot of ways you can tweak the m17x.

 

here is the jdec settings, ill get the others up later Mandrake



I will note though, at 667, they run 7-7-7-20, not what it shows

 

Just ran 3DMark06 for the first time.

3DMark06 Score: 15026
QX9300 o/c @2.93Ghz
GTX 280M Sli
Using 186.81 drivers

Being a complete novice at this kind of thing and a bit phobic about updating graphics drivers, would 186.82 or 91 drivers improve the score?

Thanks in advance.

 

drivers can improve the score, but if you care more about gaming don't bother since you say you are hesitant as it is

That is a decent score as is so nothing to worry about

Nice system by the way!

 

Does anyone have some specific values for clocks that I should be good with overclocking the gtx260m?

 

600/1500/950

 

Is the single card goal 7K on the GPU or total?

 

on the gpu.

 

thx don. Do you know what the exact score was?

 

no i'm not sure. ichime was the one how scored it.

 

here it is
http://service.futuremark.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=1387629&compareResultType=19

 

Do you remember your score? @1920x1080

 

looks as though mandrake has a bit of time to play today....nice!

 

just a little...16590 @ 1920x1080 proc @ 3.27 and GPU @ 680|1070|1700

 

6300 on my first run. I know I hit 6500 when I had my x9100 in.

 

so run dual mode then...

 

CPU freq is not the same.

 

can't be pointing out the obvious...you know all we can do is improvise.

 

3d settings seem to have less affect on the score with a single card.

 

I shold write a guide for how to get high scores in vantage.

 

test, test then test again...done.

 

try enabling one thing in there....anisotropic sample optimization...leave everything else as off.

 

I spent some time yesterday tinkering with my gpus

Running Dox drivers in 64-bit vista and could not get them stable at 670 even Gonna play around with different shader clocks, would really like to get back up to 680 or 690 on the core

 

I had the same problem with mines. But I forget what I did and it was better. Drivers also the way your gpu overclock.

 

That's on by default with the Dox drivers. Do you mean leave everything off or at default?

 

For my runs I have all the filters off, all the optimizations on, and use either AFR 1 or 2 for SLI mode. As well as single screen performance mode

just my 2 cents

 

no SLI with single card runs.

BTW, I beat your 06 score.....@1920X1080.

 

I was just saying what I have been doing....

if you want to go all out, I wonder if hybrid boost would help on a single card lol (Would have to physically remove 2nd GTX 280m though to find out)

 

I'm sure it would. Ask Moo, he worked on it for a while.

 

but YOU could work on it with the better gpu haha

that and dont GPUs by themselves usually OC higher?

 

yes. system is using less power and heat...right?

 

I would just figure you have a much lower chance of crashing the driver, kind of like the risk of raid 0 vs stand alone drives?

in this system they are isolated as far as heat goes, I guess it could allow more current to get to the gpu though for more stable OC since all the graphics current the system can put out can go to that card now, aint gotta share

 

they are isolated as far as cooling goes but the system as a whole will produce more heat.

 

anything goes, unless of course your testing single gpu...

trilinear usually slows up calico....

off. some defaults are set to on depending on driver.
you guys only need to watch the first 20 seconds to know if it's working or not....

they may not be stable at 670 but might be stable at a higher shader. you guys also have to get off using these same clocks..they aren't best for all drivers and situations. some drivers produce better results with lower over clocks some need more shader and others more memory...don't limit your self to thinking you have to do it one way.
once you find your next sec of clocks...let them run for a while and see what happens....

 

my issue is I was not even finishing runs (calico alwasy crashes in like the last 2 seconds ) at 690, 680, 670 and I tried high, low, linked (2.5x core) on shaders

I got some work to do. Not throwing in the towel yet, just a little frustrated at the moment

 

that's what i want to hear scook9! not giving up...just sit back and stare at it for a bit...then get back in there *hands on scook9's shoulders. with the pep talk*

 

haha thanks John

working on that cpu OC now, ran it at 1272 fsb and 1333 mem and voila! it passed 1 hour occt, so giving 3190 (1276 fsb) a go now (new ground!)

 

no worries scook9

gotta run to the store and take this stupid 120hz screen back...it would appear it wants to keep showing 6 windows when i try to enable 120hz. looks great for 3d gaming, but what good is looking great if i cant use all four of my cards, right?

 

lol, sorry to hear it aint working. The FHD2400 not cutting it now?

Well 3190 was a no go , at least I reclaimed my 3180 speed haha (guess I still got a pretty good QX9300 )

Now to work on some GPU clocks

 

nah, the fhd2400 is great, but was wanting to try some 120 locked fps, but it seems that was some bs..lol. so i took it back today. apparently you can't run 120hz on your own just by setting it..wth!? and i wasn't real big on that 1680x1050 either...

 

Ya the lower res and higher price were a no go for me. Did you calibrate your fhd2400 or anything when you got it?