*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmarks RESULTS *Part 2*

Vantage QX9300 @ 3.167Mhz



3DMARK06 QX9300 @ 3.167Mhz



Vantage QX9300 @ 3.227Mhz




3DMARK06 QX9300 @ 3.227Mhz




So far without the Disabled Processor registry edit.

 

holy cow that is crazy

 

You should jump in the game. Sensie Drake will guide you..lol

 

lol, keep them coming Rengsey. You see the scores you need to surpass.

BTW, I don't think the registry edit will help you. After a certain OC you need more cooling and voltage but you can always try it.

 

Of course I will try. So far, i'm inside the house. I haven't gone outside following your footstep yet. Maybe when I start to get BSOD, then I will do what you do, and go outside..lol...

 

You should be able to hit 3.35Ghz before voltage becomes an issue.

 

drake always answers my questions

and i run stable at 3.06 with my qx9300 and get 16878...which was crazy for me ...lol...and i have never overclocked my gpu yet ,,,kinda nervous about it...but right now i am running mem 1280 and fsb 1240 ....and it works ok ...ok fine i do want to go higher...just need help ////

 

I'm driving home from my sister house now. I'll give another run when I get home...

Side note: Since i'm on my HTC TP2, I should post a PocketPCMARK of my phone.. lol ..Yes, I do have PocketPCMARK. lol

 

hahaha PocketPCMark . Tonight I'm going to run benchmarks in my room with the laptop elevated and both A/C's on max since I have yet to order a cooler. @benthedogtrainer, I haven't messed with the GPU's either. Maybe tonight, and tommorrow is my day off Every friday, got to love it

 

ok ok ok fine me too....i am going for the basement a/c on and i am doing it ...maybe rig a tube from the freezer to the bottom of the laptop....its on....

 

I'm buying a meatlocker with a dehumidifier! going to be a frosty 33* lol

 

s*** i am going to the grocery store and asking them if i could hang out in the freezer for a while......

 

lol, I like the way you guys think.

 

. . .creepy. However, I am working hard on learning to appreciate the lengths to which you fine folks go in order to achieve your benchmark scores.

Anyway, my machine should be here around next week.

Uh. I'll have a T9550 out of the box, along with dual 280m GTX cards.

I am only interested in getting a CPU upgrade in the immediate future. Also, I am looking to save money, so if its an unlocked Q9200, then I'll make my peace with the move.

However, I need some feedback on what I can currently do with the T9550. How well do these overclock? I assume they should not be too much trouble. And how do I go about achieving those higher clocks? I wish to get the most GHz out of the CPU so that my SLi performance remains top-notch.

Cheers.

 

congrats rengsey is always good to see what this baby can do

 

T9550 should be a monster overclocker so i wouldnt worry to much about it..

Dondah got his T9300 up to i think 3.2ghz and 3.125 for everyday use so you should be able to push past those with very little issue...

 

And here is a hell of a way to kick off the new year!
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1743426
P12446
GPU: 12197
CPU: 13260

I could get the CPU up some, around 13400, but I am still happy with the result

This was for you Don, since you had to go and use 185.20....lol

 

Nice, so you ran it blind also.

 

That's good to know!

Although I think I may have misunderstood something here about Dondah's overclocking. T9300? Is that compatible with the M17X?

 

Not blind, you can see everything, the colors are just messed up, still can see what is going on though. I actually want to play around with the INF and see if I can get it to work properly. If I can I will be much more inclined to do more runs with this driver

 

Thanks don.

 

i was going to see if i can beat you tonight but i'm stuttering like hell. my first gpu score was 10,200 then i hit 9600 my second run....

then my cpu at 3.125ghz gets 10,500 when i'm suppose to break 12k on the cpu....

 

my gpu score went down again to 9157 now. let me see if it is going to go lower.

 

Just keep trying don.

Side note: From what I noticed, my VID voltage is lowest, I can get bettter score.

Happy New Year don !!

 

bad runs going on for the new year?

 

happy new years to you to ren. you also jon.

it seems so. my scores are all over the place. i'll install the old dox 182.46 and go on from there because i install the godly vantage driver.

 

my benches are all over the place as well... so i feel your pain.
and a happy new year to you and everyone else who frequents this thread.

 

Well I just got the Cat 9.12 drivers installed and ran two benchmarks on vantage with Mem at 1280, FSB 1280 mult 10 as well as Mem and FSB at 1300. At 1300 CPU went up 333 pts, gpu went down 23pts. Totals 11,788 and 11,837. Still havn't messed with the clocking of the GPU or any the voltage of the CPU. Happy New years everyone!

 

Great score , keep it going and don't lose momentum DR650.

New 3DMARK06 so far

 

looking very impressive there Ren. nice job!!

 

I need to get me some 4870s.....forget dabbling with an M17 haha

 

any good news on this front?
can we expect to see you with a pair?

 

Havent tried yet, should have the desktop sold by mid/late january. Both of my interested buyers are poor until then.....

I will of course keep you all updated

 

Still trying to do more benchs. It seems that now, I got my CPU to 3.27ghz in the 3.3Ghz range , but score does not increase.. I just have to try to figure something out. any suggestion john?

 

Well Mandrake was able to get the GPU score at 14200 with his T9900 in his M17x, you should be able to achieve around the same

Just have to make sure that you have everything tweaked appropriately

 

are you outside
fan blowing on machine
portable ac unit blowing on machine
home made cooling of any sort


did any of that stuff yet?

 

Hmmm, unrelated, but I am eyeballing that netbook you got John, what you think of it so far? Since I will have some in the bank after selling the desktop and the idea of a backup/portable machine is quite appealing to me.

 

Nope..indoor doing this. C2D vs. Qaud are totally different when it comes to OC'n and stability. C2D is better in OC and Stability, which mandrake has shown with the T9900 period.

 

dual cores always OC further, more power available per core, however the benefit of twice the cores will far outpace the smaller OC margin (QX9300s at 3.3+ vs a T9900 at 3.5/3.6)

 

My high GPU score is with the QX9300. HERE

 

Mandrake,

Do you think in terms of gaming the ATI drivers are as good as the Nvidia ones?

 

I think the ATI drivers are better. I had an issue with Borderlands and Cat 9.11 but that's it. 9.12 has been great for benching and gaming.

 

i havent been in the mood to change drivers.

i'm on 186.24

 

that's probably why..you need to "get it colder" to stablize your cpu for benching at higher speeds.

912 + sdk seems to fit together nicely.

 

My clock is the same like what you have in the screen shot, but my score is nowhere close to yours . It never gets cold here...but I'll think of something.

 

well rengsey....that's your cue to "get it colder"... not about how cold it gets outside..but how cold you get the machine to operate...lol
and scook
the netbook is a great side kick...all though i wish the battery lasted longer.

 

You probably figured this out by now but OC'ing your CPU too far will have a negative impact on your score.

 

Thanks John, looking at that and the EEE 12" ION model. Obviously the main deciding factor is the CPU, but there is a noticeable difference in graphics between the 2 platforms (the ION is much stronger)

And I started looking at the M15x as a backup option too, I am trouble lol

 

That's an expensive backup option.

 

Thats what I saw early on. Although in your high GPU shot, your FSB is at around 1310, I had to run Vantage around 5 times before I could get a complete test at 1305 without crashing. Guess I'll have to keep trying