*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmarks RESULTS *Part 2*

Thats about what i expected to see considering clocks and resolution..


The GPU OC runs should be interesting though..

 

Plus my OS is stock except for my reg change. I'm waiting for my SSD for tweaking.

 

no. Do it now so it will be fair. You saw the different I just did with my to os's.

 

I would love an SSD and hopefully the prices fall abit more.. I would need 256gig minimum for all the junk i like to keep on my PC and those prices are still abit ridiculous.. I could splurge and get one but i am a person who has buyers remorse more often then not so i have learned my lesson over the years of making hasty purchases... Or atleast i would like to think i have learned ..

 

fair? I never keep the stock image on any of my machines.

Did you see the Intel deal from newegg? I know it's only 160 but that's what a second drive is for.

 

How much was the Intel drive ?.

 

$414, mine is coming tomorrow. I did rush processing and overnight delivery for $440.

 

Yeah thats still a little rich for my blood ..

I know you talked about how the OEM Samsung drives from dell dont have the updated firmware with Trim Support so does that mean that in the long run the drive will just become worse and worse interms of performance with no way to restore the stock performance IE some type of defrag ?.

 

see. That's to much for me. I would get the qx9300.

again.
quad
thanks for the m17x
drake
thanks for the ram.
if everything goes right, hopefully, a cpu will be next. But I AM thinking about selling my t9300 first. How much do you think it is worth?

 

Probably not to much but maybe if you find a gateway owner with a 6860fx that is looking for a performance boost they might give you a few bucks for it ..

Could be worth $100.00 or so... I paid like $300 and change for that CPU from newegg IRC.. Its been almost a year and half or longer so i dont remember the exact amount..

 

When I received my replacement SSD from Dell it came with the latest firmware which supports background garbage collection. Hopefully they are out of the older ones. The older one would eventually become as slow as platter drives with the possibility of stuttering.

So the ram works. That's good.

My 600-900 run was worse than stock. I saw some stuttering. I need better cooling. I'll try again with my cpu stock.

 

100 is good enough for me. 150 is more like it though but we will see.

 

I bought a T9400 (I know you have a T9300) earlier in the year for $150.

 

yes about that, I also got stuttering at 1920*1080 in overclocking but not 1920*1200. Weird.

yeah bit the t9300 then t9500 then x9000. There isn3 much upgrade for the first centrino cpu. So mine should hold more value.

 

When I had my last system I remember Crysis was picky about how you OC'ed. Another reason why it's not my favorite benchmark.

I'm not going to loop it. It'll just get worse as the heat builds.

 

mines get better. The first run is the worst.

 

When i was doing Crysis on Dons M17x i had issues when i OC'd the GPUs. The screen would crap out if i pushed it to far..

Crysis has never really liked GPU OC at all and CPU OC has such a small influence if any.. Its really meant to be run on stock GPUs.. Strange though at 600/900 you would see worse performance since the W90 with Turbo gear enabled ran it on those clocks without any issue.. Its such a mild OC that it should not be a problem..

 

Yeah dropped another 5 FPS. Why do we benchmark this crappy program again? lol!

 

Goes back to the better NB on the W90.

 

because it is stressful and under 100fps average so it counts.

 

Well, your 'trick' certainly works Drake Wow. Nice and stable @ 3.2.

Its been some time since I benched this thing and certainly not anywhere in the realm you 'number chasers' are in but here are 2 3DMark06 runs. Will hit up Vantage later.

This is with the very low performing 186.82 driver @ default GPU clocks. 9400M is disabled.

I actually set FSB:MEM both @ 1280 for the first run (15984 3DMarks). Second run set FSB @ 1280 and MEM @ 1066 (15852 3DMarks).

Guess my next step will be to install the DOX driver and start bumping up the GPUs.

 

don are you running Win 7?

 

Glad to see that CPU thing working for you Batboy .. Hopefully ill have similar success ...

 

@Batboy: I hit 16.8K with stock GPU on the nVidia system. A goal to shoot for.

Do you have a notebook cooler?

 

yes. I AM using win7 x64. What are you using?

 

Yes the same. Did you have the same issue running the crysis benchmark also where it would start the game and not the benchmark?

BTW did you ever sleep? lol

 

lol. Yes. About 5-6 minutes. Then I saw some crysis runs and woke up.

no I didn't have an issue on my sager and my allpowerful but I did on my whitebook and my hp.

I didn't play the game though. What I did now though is just install the game patch. Then patch the x86 .exe and run it. But I have a lot of .net framework installed as well.

 

OK, WHAT IS THIS TRICK?!

Send me a link or something, I seemed to have missed it and now feel like the kid alone in the corner with no friends haha

 

Check the link in my sig Scook.

 

Very interesting indeed!

Will absolutely try that.

That is by you mandrake? just under a different Alias? Very nice find regardless!

 

you seems to have missed me beating your gpu stock score. Also I was cpu overclocked.

 

Hello guys. Is the first page ofthis topic updated? Because it seems that the 3dmark06 record is 18xxx done by mandrank with ati crossfire.
And the vantage bench is also done with ati crossfire by mandrank.

So why at the first page, both record are nvidia?

 

Yes. That account is older than my NBR account.

 

The OP is PC-less at the moment.

 

The OP has been out of action due to computer issues, patience, it will eventually be updated.

Don, I also beat that score, the one in ORB is my best overall stock run. My best stock GPU score was around 10400

 

So the current bench records are ati crossfire's?

 

you beat this?

 

dont remember the number, wish i had taken a screenshot now haha. Was around that, definitely was over 10400

Mandrake, so far that has not helped me with the CPU OC, but still waiting on that new motherboard which may make a difference

 

Can somebody confirm me if the current best score bench is ati crossfire or gtx280 sli?Thanks. It is crucial so I could make my decision.

 

Yes the 4870s are the Winners ... I thought you already knew this ???.

 

I am convinced right now after all these benchmarks. I definitely will go with ati crossfire. I have to ask to Dell to cancel the current order, and I will make a new one. It seems that I won't receive my laptop before chrismas. What a shame...

 

yep, ati seems to be kicking butt all over town at the moment...so much so that i may grab a 5970... and ditch my gtx295's

 

I would look for a special deal next weekend.

 

yep!...jsut looking for them to be in stock more or less

 

Vantage with my most stable overclock. (1290 so far = no freezing in any programs)

 

run linx 0.6.4 on it and see what happens... along with prime95... if you get time.

 

Knew the 5k series cards would get you sooner or later john

 

yeah, i think it's time for me to start testing ati cards again...been a long time...

 

Guys remember that Acer is already starting to ship laptops with 5870's cards. I am sure Dell will do that with the M17X before Christmas too.

It's worth waiting a month or so...

 

i didn't see that. (i want to see the card. )