*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmarks RESULTS *Part 2*

Man, dell will just give them away to anybody lol. I think everyone needs try and get in on this, make this benching more competitive

 

everyone hop off when i got my 280m gtx sli....

 

Dell is sending me a pair to fix my horrendous DPC latency issues

 

WHAT?! Okay, I need to get caught up. Please, please, please....what do I have to do to snag a pair?

 

You have crazy stuttering right... It's detrimental to your work...

 

Do you still have your system?...or will you be starting an Asus benchmarking thread.

 

check out this thread praetorian
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=452360

 

yes I do. I decided to keep the laptop. I thought about it long and hard and I'll just stay with it.

 

Good, we need someone to pass the GTX 280m SLI torch off to, since I am crossing over to the dark side as well now lol

You know what you need to do Don

 

Nvidia is the lazy company employing the smoke and mirror tactics, so sorry, dudes, it is us 280m users who are with the dark side. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Anyway, Don, I guess you made thoughtful move. Ever consider extending the warranty? It might increase your chances at getting an R2 model as replacement sometime in the future. (If your M17x were to. . . you know. . . go bad.)

 

looks like you have some settings wrong at that..i did this with a 9800m gtx sli.






no problem kade storm

 

R2??? you get the 3 year warranty and just kick it back and wait for the next generation of stuff

We are talking 6k series and core i12! lol

Since I am upgrading to the 4870s courtesy of Dell, you bet your a$$ I am going to extend my warranty and just coast lol, you all can have your RGB screen and i7 for now

 

oh yes I AM going to extend the warranty. I'm going to go year by year until I decide to sell it.

 

Yeah, that's how I am taking this ride.

Some of the M17x owners are originally Inspiron 9400/XPS M1710 owners, working up the ladder through Dell's N.B.D. policy. Just keep a long running warranty, and eventually, they will run out of incentive and parts to deal with the problems of an obsolete machine, which will result in them just sending out a more up-to-date machine that could be considered at least equal or better.

Personally, I do want to enjoy the specification of my machine for a good while. All I really want is a QX9300 OEM at bargain price. Finding a larger variety of mobile CPUs here in UK is very hard.

Edit:
Don, they do get better deals for three-year-warranty. In fact, even here in UK, they were offering I think 3 years for the price of 2. Reason why I suggest getting a larger package - it might improve the market value of your machine, because the buyer would/should know that with more than two years of warranty on the machine, they are actually investing in not only a good machine, but a potentially good deal that might lead to an upgrade in the future. All they gotta' do is transfer the warranty and relax.

 

there are about to be alot of them in the marketplace as R1 users jump ship for the R2 lol, it should be easy enough to get hold of one

 

I am trying, but even now, they are going a bit high.

Like I said, I am looking for a good bargain. Last OEM CPU on ebay went for £320, I think. I don't know. . . a bit much. I would've tried bidding, but I missed the auction.

 

I hate bidding in auctions....I only do buy it now on ebay lol

 

I think I beat you. No?

 

yeah, you did...i couldn't find my 31 to 32 fps run
but if i used .29...i would be around 60 fps very high...lol

 

Yeah, but the point I was making: A so-called 'outdated' 9800m GTX SLi (certainly not outdated or a slouch by my standards), actually came -very- close to these current cards at doing Crysis Very High, including 4870. Albeit with a very mild overclock just to hold ground in the playing field.

 

it's in the ocz section. With you, mhooper, e-wrecked, lchime, me(looking at the whitebook but couldn't buy it. Lol. Thanks zfactor.) and a girl with the sager np9262 and 8800m gtx ski and she was in pink. I don't remmember her name.

I'm on my phone so I can't search it.

 

with my 9800m gtx single I got 12fps stock and 15 overclocked. I could of done more but I didn't have a cooler. Still no excuse. Lol.

 

yeah she was cool as hell and one hell of a bencher!! we had her 9261 with 8800m gtx's setting records...lol

nah, you we're doing allot with that single card!

and yes kade storm...they we're holding their own...i think they are just about beat on almost all gaming and bench mark fronts as of now...maybe one or so they still hold title too...but don't quote me!

 

I still really want someone to try a np9262 with 4850 CF in it

I would have but just cannot afford to do it

 

would be because its the same card .....

nothing to be proud of knowing

 

were the 9800m GTX 55nm or 65nm? if 55nm then they are just GTX 260m's lol (like Moo said)

 

60 or 65 i think

they ran semi hot ...

 

they would have been 65, no one used the 60nm node

 

65mm

and her name is aeris. I just remembered.

also john
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/corsair-pushes-speed-envelope-with-2-333mhz-dominator-gtx-ram-mo/

and thanks.

scook beat my fc2 record.

 

telling me I need to? lol

Guess I can give it a go

Most likely got these GTX 280m's until Monday

 

Same card? Yes, they are all G92, but the 260 is cooler and higher clocked, and the 280 has another 16 shaders per card. Although probably very little impact.

Anyway, I was comparing John's result with a current 4870 CF bench run of Crysis DX10 at 1200p, where the average was 31.7 FPS at very high. John's 9800 with core memory and shaders overclocked to 580, 950, and 1450, respectively, did upwards of 29, which makes it very close. Technically, the 9800 is more than beaten on most fronts, but by a very small margin when you take a polygon goliath like Crysis into consideration.

And yes, 9800s were 65nm. Technically, the 260 is a refined die-shrunk version. G92 vs G92b. I am not complaining. I am quite impressed with the fact that 9800m GTX did so well. If only I could've gotten a decent 9800m GTX for the M1730 with good overclock potential. I would've been set for gaming.

 

cpu overclocked stocked gpus. you want a screen shot of what to aim to?

 

yes please Don

and why stock GPUs? Doesn't that take out alot of the fun?

 

give my a minute to load of tinypic on my phone. Lol.

also I did my record with stock gpu's. You can do both. Just list stock gpu and overclocked gpu on them. I'll count both of them. I record is a record. But I just want to know what you got stock gpu as well.

 

I will have to learn what the good drivers and settings are, so give me some time lol

 

I'm hearing excuses. Lol.

 

Nice!

I so have to get a quadcore!

 

I believe it was at 3.125 I believe.

kade do you have fc2?

 

well look at mr don da dah!

pushing the bar a bit higher every time you post..nice!

 

Yes, sir!

. . .but not installed.

I'll get to it, but I can already tell you that my average will be around 40+, because that's what I got on my 3.4 GHz 9800m GTX SLi (Overclocked 610/810/1550) M1730. This particular game likes more CPU cores to really enjoy those high average rates.

I ran my tests with AA, but even without AA, it only make a difference of like 2 FPS to the average frame rate.

 

you must of did something wrong? What driver was you using?

my sager np9262 [email protected] and single 9800m gtx got 30fps average and 40fps with the gpu overclocked.

thanks John

 

don, you still got that 8600?

 

no I sold it with the clevo...

why what's up?

 

i should have bought that from you...i completely forgot i needed one of those.

 

its an overclocking beast I heard. I of course couldn't overclock it in the sager because it is a 1333mhz fsb.

 

they are...can over clock to like 6+ ghz

 

Dude, really?

I have found that overclocking the GPU made almost no difference to the average rate. Maybe 1 FPS, at best. Using a 3.4 GHz - X9000 - and 9800m GTX SLi at stock, I got an average of 42 frames-per-second. I used drivers ranging from all of the 182s, then the 185s, followed by 186.81, and then the 190s. Results varied, but not by much.

And do I understand this correctly. . . the P8600 can overclock to 6GHZ? Bloody hell! That is fast. Has anyone done any benches with a similar frequency?

 

He was talking about E8600 CPU not P8600

Side note:

 

oh no sir..not a p8600, but an e8600 desktop cpu. it's the next best over clocked cpu next to some celeron..capable of hitting 7ghz.

edit:
Ren beat me to the punch.


edit:
rotflmao@Ren and them quotes!
Toshiba A300
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 @ 2.26Ghz
4GB DDR2 800
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 512 MB DDR2
400GB 5400RPM HDD (Dual 200GB)
15.4" WXGA
Windows 7 Ultimate (RTM) x86
Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 x86
Logitech Z-2300

dont think that 3650 was ever gonna keep up....although i could be wrong....

 

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