G50vt-x5 Benchmarks

Recently got a new laptop, replacing my old macbook pro, and I picked this up as a sweet deal. If anyone needs I'm doing benchmarks for this machine with the various games I have. Quake 4, Quake wars, CoD5, and eventually Bioshock, Half Life 2, and Unreal Tournament 3. Ill start in that order but if anyone wants to shout out to have me do one specifically let me know. Ill update as this progresses. Any other benchmarks that someone else recommends are also welcome, and Enjoy!

Requests:
As per Red_Dragon, Ill update this page soon when I can get Crysis and Fallout 3 with a demo video. Thanks!

Specs fyi:
2.13ghz core 2 duo P7450
4gb ddr2 800mhz ram
320gb 7200rpm primary drive, with a second 60gb 5400rpm drive with the games on it
Geforce 9800m gs 512mb
Windows 7 build 7057 beta w/ forceware 180.70 drivers from laptopvideo2go
Fraps for fps and video recording.

---------------OVERCLOCK UPDATE----------------------
http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w130/networkgamer/?action=view&current=geforceoverclock.png
Using nTune I got the gpu up to 2.65ghz. I highly doubt itll live stress testing, but after playing all my games, and running for ~an hour, there are no problems so far, and temp is hovering around 60* C. Update as this breaks
UPDATE
Got unstable after ~2 hours, so I'm surprised it made it at all with that overclock. With CoD5 I'm having problems running it with any sort of overclock, but I'm doing some stability testing and game testing with various overclocking settings, so I'll report back with the best results I get.

Quake 4:
Settings all on, quality on high, 1280x720, 0X AA, 0X AF, see video below for a deeper look.

Game video
Settings Video

Quake Wars:
Exact settings in video, but generally around normal - high, demo in video here soon. Here are some starter screens
Quake Wars Screenshots

Crysis:
Some preliminary tests show that on medium-high settings, so far at 1024x768 in windowed mode, its very playable. When I can get the game running as best as possible I'll load fraps with it and take a few screenshots, but a lot of problems are arrising, especially with the sound, and that without being windowed, the sound pretty much halts the game and decimates any real chance of playing it. Update as it breaks.

Game list update: As soon as possible, mostly by the end of this week, Ill be putting up Left 4 dead, black and white 2, Elder scrolls IV oblivion, Mirrors edge and empire total war. If you wanna expedite any of those let me know, otherwise in that order.

Edit For overclock

How Im gonna do overclocking benchmarks is have an overclock posted, like this, with a screen of the overclock, and a list of games at that overclock, along with default to compare. First with this overclock Ill start with Crysis Warhead.
----Update----
New clock reached

800mhz/997mhz/2000mhz overclock

1366x768 Resolution, Mainstream Settings across the board, overclock
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
24918, 1062935, 0, 193, 23.443

CPU Overclock Update
Overclocked the cpu to ~2.5ghz from 2.13ghz
Update
On the ~2.5ghz overclock, got a bsod after just a few minutes of gaming. Lowered it from the ~2.53ghz to 2.4ghz. Well see how this fairs.

Cpu overclock, 2.4ghz, gpu overclock, 800/997/2000 core/mem/shader
Crysis Warhead, Gamer settings across the board, 1366x768
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
1198, 77256, 0, 132, 15.507

As you can see, something with the overclock broke the gain. It dropped almost a full 10fps on average. Ill try with default cpu, then default gpu, then default both.

Crysis warhead, gamer settings, 1366x768
Cpu default, gpu overclocked like above
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
1736, 118296, 1, 132, 14.675

So lowering cpu lowered framerate. Makes sense, although no real noticeable difference

Crysis Warhead, Gamer settings, 1366x768
Cpu overclock, 2.39ghz, gpu default clock
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
5670, 348204, 0, 200, 16.284

Noticeable gain with default gpu. I guess the cpu is bottlenecking the gpu. Figures with a low end core 2 duo.

Going from these results, Im gonna stop testing with such strenuous overclocking, seeing how itll break down my system bit by bit, and mainly because so far theres no gain

new GPU Overclock to try out


Finally got the best overclock settings and some 3d Mark 2006 Benchmarks
CPU: 2.13ghz Overclocked to 2.488ghz with setfsb
GPU: 530/799/1325mhz Overclocked to 836/1019/2019mhz with ntune.

SM2: 2762
HDR/SM3: 2671
CPU SCore: 2199
Total: 6559

 

Also add Fallout 3 and Crysis to that if you could i think those are important games for benchmarks.

We appreciate the help and this will probably help out a ton of people +Rep.

 

About getting video and such for the games, Ill work on buying them soon, but as far as benchmarking goes I believe crysis has just a benchmark app that I can use. Do you know if fallout 3 has something similar?

 

Hm you know im not sure but i do remember someone posting something that looked like a benchmarking tool for it im not so sure.

 

Congrtaulations!
This model at BB is really a great deal,it has replaced the Gateway FX series as the best bang for the buck.
Try upgrading the GPU drivers first to get better FPS in games.
Still thinking about picking one up just for the hell of it, recently seen these same laptops selling on E-BAY for $1200.
The only thing I'm a little hesitant about it are the lid design( the orange/red trimmed G50 is not much better).
I just wished it came in a solid black and silver option.
But those reasons are very trivial, and I'm sure you will love this laptop,

 

I agree with you on the design. At one point I got to demo an old G50 with a geforce 9700 gt, and with the solid orange shine on it, it was hardly standable for me. This one is like a somewhat carbon looking black on the palm rest area, and the sides of the palm rest area are glossy black. As you move up the side of the keyboard, it fades to a light, subtle orange, and its far from what the old G50's were like. One thing I don't mind on it much, but other people do, is around the screen theres some places where its more than an inch of border, and even the sides are around 1.5cm. Overall its a great looking laptop. Everywhere I go I get comments about it! Especially the lid.

 

I have a question about gaming resolutions. I've been setting my games to 1366x768. Is it advantageous to run the games at 1280x720 or the laptops native 1366x768? Thanks

 

Gaming at native resolution is always preferred, unless your framerate drops too low to be enjoyable.

 

I would just run it based on the performance you're getting out of it.

 

Whenever possible I run at the native resolution, mainly because 1280x720 is a 16:9 resolution, and its a 16:10 screen. Small difference, but all the more reason to run native. The only reason I dont run 1366x768 in quake 4 is because there is no option for it. Most of the others run at it though.

 

Yeah, that's what Im planning to do. It was way too unstable if i overclocked it at all enough to expect a performance gain. The highest overclock I got that was at all stable on the gpu was 638mhz core/931mhz memory/2100mhz shader, and even then it was barely noticeable, and some games were having problems.anything past 650mhz/950mhz/2.4ghz glitches the card with a bsod and I have to restart.

 

Did some basic crysis testing, patched to 1.2, and getting it to run as good as possible before I put some real numbers up. See first post.

 

Unstable after 2 hours eh? Thats still pretty good just shut if off every hour and a half wait like 10 minutes and reboot it

 

Unstable, as in overheating.
If thats the case just get a laptop cooler, I have a NZXT Cryo cooler that's awesome, it's a little bulky but the 3 120mm fans blow out a lot of cool air + it adds a nice angle to the keyboard for extended laptop sessions.
Nice initial review, this seems like a very capable system but seems somewhat limited by the CPU but that's easily fixed with an easy upgrade doing that would really let the G50vt-X5 spread it's wings.

 

What?! are serious man?!

How could it be possible 1060Ghz core?

I'm barely reach 2.0Ghz with my gts!

 

There's no way those overclocks are right, the card would explode.

 

I first thought he was talking about his Cpu. Now i see the screenshot and... ???

9800GS running 63.4 GB/sec , and with these frequencies ??? There must be a mistake somewhere...

 

I think so!

 

Hope you have a fire extinguisher handy!

 

Ohh... 60 C when gaming? Lol. are you sure??

Try Crysis 2 or GTA 4

 

Ill see what I can do to do a more feasible overclock, but lately that overclock did something to the card. It wasn't glitching out like you would expect from overheating, and it wasn't especially hot. Also I wasn't able to check temps while gaming, but the highest it got after i exited any game was 63 C. The performance gain was noticeable. Ill see if i can get it to go one more time and get some benchmarks up. Also I'll be updating the list of games here soon.

 

Updated main post with crysis oc benchmarks, with 1 slight overclock at gamer settings, and default, and one slightly bigger oc with mainstream settings and default for comparison.

 

Looks good Network keep up the good work!

 

Will do. Found the clock generator as per User CA36GTP, So I'll be updating my benchmarks when I get a stable overclock with it.

 

Updated main page with a little more oc updates. More benchmarks here shortly

 

Updated main page with the cpu overclock.

 

Did you up the voltage on the card? I seriously do not believe what so ever you got those clocks on that card. No way no how it can hit those clocks. NO WAY.

Do me a favor and run 3dmark06 and have it validated and uploaded and let me check out the ORB page.

 

Holy mother of God somethings up if you're hitting 2.1k Shader clock and you don't have 3rd degree burns. You sure its detecting your clocks right? Thats absolutely insane for 9800gs...

 

Im not sure, Im with all you atm. Ill see about a 3dmark 06 bench to verify anything, but so far Im going off of what these softwares are telling me. Any other way of showing that Im authentically not fooling with anyone would be appreciated lol. Im truly not.

 

3d mark is on its way now. Ill post all that info up with screenshots, the benchmarks, results, the whole bit. Afaik I didnt up the voltage, but if ntune or setfsb raises it, then maybe, but nowhere did I or nowhere can i that I know of change the voltage. I have no intention of either since that kills the life of the cpu.

 

Ok, I got some 3d mark 06 benchmarks. Got almost 6k, all the details are in the download. The download is a compressed file of the 3d mark results screen, in 2 screenshots, and the other is the html file with my full system config. Enjoy, let me know anything else I can do.

PS: 3d mark 06 was unable to get the clocks of my gpu, only that theres 512mb ram on it. I can post a gpuz screen if anyone wants, or anything else that shows the gpu is clocked up.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?me0gtlznlgz

 

Can't you just post the scores, it would be much more helpful( and easier)
Yeah I know I'm a pain in the @ss
You are really doing a great job!

 

SM2: 2617
HDR/SM3: 2465
CPU Score: 1773
Total: 5965

 

Dude...no wonder this didn't make sense. You've either half-fried your card or it's severely downclocking due to instability.

My X1 out-of-the-box with stock clocks got around 8,600 at 1366x768, and with my 600-1500-828 overclock pulls 10,000 at 1366x768.

Your card is running much weaker than it should be.

 

Just read your benchmarks, and you're definitely suffering from massive instability.

There's no way you should be getting those kind of wild swings (0 minimum, 200 maximum) in framerate.

 

My theory is when I overclocked it at 2.65ghz I really damaged It. Its gonna get replaced sometime soon, in the next 2 days.

 

Stick to GTS speeds tops with the next one =)

 

I'm going to be blunt.

You have no clue what your doing and you ruined your 3d card by trying RIDICULOUSLY high over clocks. You obviously don't know how to over clock or you wouldn't have ruined any of your hardware. I have over clocked almost every single bit of hardware I have run for about 8 years now and have never even come close to ruining anything. I suggest you go over to the extreme over clocking forums and read some of their OC guides so you know how to properly achieve and test your maximum safe over clock so nothing like this happens again for you.

I wrote a guide to over clock and flash the 9800m GS I suggest you read it as it will help you a lot.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=357807

 

I see where your coming from and I generally see your point and agree, but for me info doesnt come easy reading. I can read fairly well according to school, I was always somewhat skeptical, everything came iwth experience for me. And as a correction this is really the first gpu ive officially fried. But point taken lol. What Im gonna do is just replace the laptop and build a gaming desktop for much cheaper, and just do a netbook for portability with web and such.
The config I have conjured up atm is here.
http://rafb.net/p/MOzXJn55.html