*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmarks RESULTS *Part 2*

very very very intresting to hear.

but isn't that a motherboard issue more then anything.

can some else post a screen shot of there unit. prefer sli/crossfire but single cards are good also.

 

The motherboard can only run 2 cards @ 8x.. Its a design thing... The W90 ran them both at 16x as did the 9262 i but both were using desktop chipsets ..

 

yes i remember the w90 and the np9262 doing 16x but the np9262 was pci-e 1.0 and the w90 was pci-e 2.0....

i know the whitebook is also 8x. i wonder how it would affect the gpu's?

 

here is mine. i dont get this 2.0 after the 8x. windows 7 also but different driver as i can see. how is this under vista?

 

how do you like that driver?

do you have the 9400m on also?

in vista it doesn't show it. it looks just like yours.

 

Any tips for getting over 13k on 3Dmark06 with the Microcenter M17x? I've already got the CPU OC'd to 2.4.

I've been messing around with OCing the GPUs, but that doesn't seem to make much of a difference...

I've got the core clocks and shader clocks both OCed about 10% with negligible results...

I'm currently hovering at around 12.5k.

 

9400m is disabled. after trying a few games i think this driver gives the most fps. you dont like it?

 

i haven't tried it yet. i'm little tired of downloading drivers and them not working. but i'll try it again.

 

i tried now 186.82 again. Qx9300 at 3.057ghz and no gpu oc

3DMark06 scores:

186.82 : around 14500 points
186.91 : around 15600 points

still low score in comparison with vista but you can see the difference. try them too and tell me your results.

 

ok. i was just wayching some anime before i did it but after seeing those scores.....








i'm downloading now.

 

I also dont follow the recommended way to uninstall drivers (i mean safe mode etc) which caused even performance drops.

i follow this.

- i enable hybrid sli in bios
- i uninstall nvidia display driver using driver sweeper
- reboot
- after reboot immediately install the new driver
- then reboot again.
- after reboot you can disable intergrated graphics again and run benchmark

its much faster and works ok for me giving me always the expected benchmark results.

i am waiting for your results. your cpu is different but the score difference will say the truth.


i will try with 186.91 now with the sli update 3 to see if the score will drop as i expect (the bad thing i have to uninstall the drivers again to get rid of sli update 3). however 3dmark06 is supported in sli anyway with 186.xx drivers and i may not see any difference

 

my internet is very very slow. i downloaded the one from laptop video 2 go and it's coming up with errors on extracting it. so i'm downloading it from a different website.

 

did you double click on it or you pressed right click extract? just double click it and it will extract by its own. also dont forget to use the additional inf


Update 186.91 drivers with sli update 3 got a higher score (15906) always with Qx9300 at 3.057ghz and no gpu oc and win7 x64 ultimate



but performance in games is not always better and i get fps drops -stutter very often. any ideas for this?

 

i know how to extract it lol.

run dx9 games and compare the different drivers.

i'm in class. i had to run out and i couldn't install it. i get out in an hour and i'll see.

 

sorry i am currently not updating, i am troubleshooting my M17x. be back in a few days ok thx for understanding

 

why what happened?

 

i think a bad hard drive and my bootmanager is missing. also found a GPU problem but thats ok but im having them both fixed. im sending it in

 

use easybcd on do it.

also i'm sorry to hear the bad news.

 

186.91 doesn't work for me. 280m just cramble in anything. 06 i start out with 3fps instead of 98fps. it's so bad. but hybrid works on it.

 

my M17X stopped working before a few weeks. i was pressing power button and nothing happened. so they changed my whole motherboard. i hope its really new and not used-fixed. my machine was fixed by a technician who came home and replaced the motherboard in less than 24 since i called dell

thats really weird.... did you uninstall using driver sweeper? by the way if eset runs at the background i get a 20fps drop during playing red faction guerilla. but when i get this drop its stable. if i close eset i get more than 52fps but fps drops very often.

 

really? I have that stupid antivirus installed and it worked fine every other time so I left it. :mad

 

ever try sunbelt counterspy?

 

no I haven't gotten to really play any games since I am always trying to install the drivers to get the computer to work.

 

lol it is a anti virus that will work either very good or bad with your laptop but you can always try it.

 

I know. I have that anti virus installed right now.

 

Lol... Just play some games with 190.38s .. I played many with those installed and had 0 issues.. Leave the benching alone for 10 minutes and try to have some fun....

 

lol I try. I'm to picky. That's my problem. If I overclock my CPU and I was stable at 3.987ghz and then i'm at 3.986ghz. I'm going o spend weeks on it until I find out why. And the world stops for me until I find out.

right now i'm in acouple things i'm trying to figure out. Stealth mode doesn't work unless you plug in your system put it on and then plug it out. You can't start your on battery and turn on stealth mode.

the drivers and why can't I install any driver I want to.

I found out why my system freezes already when installing new drivers and what to do with that. I found out the black screen of can't see nothing. And slot more.

I need to relax though lol.

with that driver, does the 9400m work. I'm just doing some test with that also.........


also 186.81 supports hybrid Ali and it works like butter for those who like to have the 9400m on with discrete gpu's.

 

I think he is having fun. Gaming just gets in the way.

 

lol. I'm trying to do both. I'm trying new drivers for prototype. Sli isn' supported for 186.24. I'm going to try 186.81 when I get to the house. I wish that game had a benchmark.

 

Start a new game everytime as that is the benchmark to me with running fraps and watching my framerate right from the get go.. I always remember what i was getting to what i am getting etc etc..

 

OK. I can do that. I'll do some real world benchmarks as well. But I just got to test out my new driver first

 

Hi, new french bench whith catalyst 9.10, GPU stock and [email protected] from jlpfr
http://img8.hostingpics.net/pics/421824Capture_drivers_9.10.jpg
+100pts

http://portables4gamers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5&p=42

 

Where are the vantage scores?

 

It's coming!!

 

i'm trying to get 10_600 on vantage gpu stock.


it's not easy.

 

Haha,...good luck Donda....there is a reason it has not been done yet (and I tried pretty hard - 10400 was my record)

 

I can't get crossfire to enable on the 9.10, any advice?

 

i'm at 10,2??

i'll beat your record first and then the 4870x2

 

go for it

I will qualify my score by the way, that was with the QX9300 stock as well, not OC on CPU like I am sure you want to do haha

 

OK. I'll run stock CPU as well.

 

where's all the benchmarkers at?

i'll keep this thread busy then

so I ran stock runs on vantage and my gpu score hardly broke over 10,000... Scook9 are you sure you where stock CPU?

I remember chaz with his unit also had trouble breaking 10,000 on the gpu with his stock qx9300. When he brought I up to 2.93 or 3.07, he then break 10k.

I have a take home test tonight. I wanted to do some real world benchmarks.

 

P10333
GPU: 10238

I do not have that 10400 run saved, as like I said, it was not a high overall score - which was my goal

I was running a QX9300 though, maybe the extra cores actually helped some lol

 

I think you guys need to define stock. Scook's hardware is not stock. Plus 3D settings, do those have to be stock?

 

stock can mean different things.

stock gpu and stock gpu and bone stock with no mods.

i personally always do stock gpu overclocked cpu unless it's otherwise stated.

 

How was the run I posted not stock? By stock I meant all devices at stock speeds. Yes I upgraded my memory, but it is still stock speed and timings.

You can tweak anything you want in software, is what I did. The only rule is all clocks must be stock

 

Well then that's defining it....now just agree that should be the definition then GO!

 

hello, benchmark gods.
can anybody help me out here? link below.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=432107
it's very much connected to overclocking

 

nice cooling right?

 

is that dx9 or dx10?

and judging by your 8 degree difference...seems one gpu is working harder than the other...

 

that is dx10

it's always like this in win7 and in vista. right now i'm in win7 which separates the gpu up to 10degrees apart.