XPS M1530 3DMark 06 Score : 5027

I’ve managed to squeeze out 3DMark 06 Score of 5159 with the setup in my sig.
Wish I could find a way to overclock the X9000 CPU and get the score up higher.

Thanks 7oby for your help and thanks flipfire for the great write up on Undervolting.

 

Decent score. And for overclocking, i suggest finding your pll number and see if any programs support it. there is no way your gonna be able to mess with anything in the bios, which is the best way to do things.

 

Not very impressive score but compared to the 15.4” size of the M1530, not bad either.

As far as I know, nobody has found the PLL or a FSB clock generator for the M1530 yet.

 

Hey pretty good score, what resolution was this at?

I have heard of people who managed to get over 6000...

Also on a side note im not sure if overclocking the cpu will yield much, im rocking a t7250 and you have got roughly 900 points over my CPU score, so it seems that for every 0.1 Ghz increase in processor speed, you will get just over 100 3dmark points.



Dont know if things equate exactly like that but just some information!

 

Hmm not bad - though I still bet you!! ha ha only kidding
Push the core speed higher it should go easily enough.

Bty as of this moment the pll cannot be oc'd None of the fsb modding software supports it (tried clockgen, setfsb, cpucool, crystalcpuid and systool and a few others that I can't remember..) None support it - though if you find one that does please tell.

bty 2, some peeps report winbond as the pll chip, its not, its ICS 9LPRS365BKL (well my mobo has that chip instead anyway)

bty 3 Theres a thread about this (well kinda like)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=301580&page=2

 

I tweaked it a little bit more and updated the NVidia driver and it hit 5159.
The resolution is set to 1680 x 1050.

Pushing the core speed higher will probably make the score higher, put the GPU starts getting pretty hot and I’m not sure if you would be able to use the GPU at those speeds for a long time.

I’ll keep on looking for a way to overlock the X9000. That’s the whole idea of getting an X9000 in the first place.

 

By the way, how do you overclock to 756/1512/950 mhz?
The scale ends at 715/1423 MHz in mine.

 

The BIOS of M1730 has a feature where you can overclock X series CPU’s like X9000. It will be awesome if somebody could adapt that feature from M1730’s BIOS to M1530.

 

You should be running the test at 1280x1024. That is the proper resolution to test at. You should be getting 5600pts+

Have you tried the RMclock registry tweak to unlock multipliers? Probably wont work but i suggest you give it a try anyway

 

I have the GPU overclocked to 680 / 1360 / 920 Mhz now and running 3DMark 06 in 1280 x 1024 but my scores are not in the 5600+ range.

Am I doing something wrong? How do I need to run the 3DMark 06 to get into the 6000 range?

I played with the RightMark CPU for some time, tried the registry tweak and even edited registry binary parameters in regedit but all I get is the Index 1-8, all of them Normal type, 6x – 14x. I can not choose any multipliers higher than 14x (2.8 GHz).

When I go into Advanced CPU Settings, I can not click on the “Engage Intel Dynamic Acceleration (IDA)” and “Enable Dynamic FSB Frequency Switching (DFFS)”.

 

Drivers can make a difference, these are a few i've tried benchmarking,
Though 3dmark is a poor measure of perforrmance as regards drivers. You might get a crap 3dmark score for a particular driver, but you might see a massive performance improvement in a game, so you have to look at both.

 

This is very good information here. Thank you.
Right now I have it running on NVidia 177.35.
I will give the 178.26 a try though.

By the way, how did you manage to overclock to 756 / 1512 / 950?
The scale ends at 715 / 1425 MHz in the Riva Tuner I have and anything over 680 / 1360 crashes on mine.

 

You can cheat the 3Dmark06 points by locking your CPU to full speed. When the test runs, your CPU throttles up and down through out the test.

By disabling speedstep you dont get throttle lag.

EDIT: Nvm it was PCmark, though you should also see some increase in 3dmark

As for the BIOS, try contacting BIOSMAN

 

I thought thats what setting to high performance is supposed to do (max/min = 100% core speed)
I tried turning off speed step before to get the cores to run at full, the multiplier became locked at 8 or 6 one or the other (can't remember) ended up with the cpu being seriously downclocked.

bty if any one finds a driver that works well, please post, the only benchmark list I've seen is one on laptopvideotogo and all the results on it seem a bit out.

 

I'd like to know the answer to this too??

Same here scale ends at 715

 

There seems to be a bit of ambiguity with regard to rivatuner's max frequency settings, If you use rivatuners hardware monitor or any other (gpu-z being one) You will see your actual core speed.

 

If I could get rivatuner installed and working it would be a start, keep getting driver signing error...

will look at that once I have this sorted

Thanks

 

Right driver signing sorted but everytime I set the clocks and apply and ok then go back the speeds are back to default?

 

What driver are you using?
Stock Dell ones often won't allow you to overclock, and as far as I've seen with testing they often give poor performance too.

 

180.42

Not stock, think laptop to go

 

Assuming you are using rivatuner?

In mine if I push the slider the whole way up immediately and then press okay, it'll revert back, so see if selecting a slightly lower value will work. in mine it says up to 715 but I can only get it to stay up to 712.

 

Right, I'm losing the will to live here!

No matter what value I set for core clock in Rivatuner, Expertool, or EVGA Precision as soon as I apply it defaults back to 475mhz

Shader and memory can be changed and work fine but not the core?

Running 180.42 drivers?

Any advice as I'm fresh out of idea's other than trying the standard Nvidia graphics drivers??

 

on a 1730, when x9000 is installed, bios allows overclocking. The a11 bios on the ftp site for the m1530 makes 8 gb possible, and it may allow overclocking on the x9000. Not sure. I am looking at x9000 for next purchase, wish i had one to try with new bios. My goal is x9000, 8 gb of ram, 64-128 gb SSD (slc)
(Intel extreme SSD is due for sale soon.)

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm

 

Hate to break it to you buddy, but unlike the XPS M1730 BIOS, the A11 BIOS of M1530 does not support overclocking feature for Extreme series CPU’s.

How do I know? I’ve been trying to overclock the X9000 CPU in my M1530 for over a month now with no success.

 

Anyone know what the max resolution is that can be displayed when plugging a VGA monitor into the port on the side of my 1530?

Can't seem to find out anywhere...?

 

1920 x 1080 from the HDMI port.

 

You could display 1920*1080 via the vga if you wanted to, but the end image quality would be crap in comparison to the picture quality that you'd get if you used the hdmi instead.

 

I was just hoping for the overclocking feature.

 

I can't understand why people would consider putting an x9000 in a 1530, the 1530 is grand for what it is ; a mid range laptop, but theres no way I'd consider the expense of putting such a chip into the laptop, I'd just save the money until I could buy a much more powerful laptop.

 

Cool!

As long as I can attach a monitor for general desktop stuff and maybe some source based games at med/low settings I'd be happy with that

 

With all due respect, I think XPS M1530 is a reasonable option for full out desktop replacement performance on a 15” notebook platform (not only gaming wise).

What are your options in 15” size, if you want a desktop replacement that will run all the work related software, CAD programs, and offer decent gaming performance too. Everything in a 15” notebook deal.

I can definitely tell the power of the X9000 while running engineering / design programs, CAD programs and simulations.

In a month or so, I will be trying a QX9300 on a HP DV5t. Talk about overkill.

 

Well yeah I suppose if you're going to be doing actual work on it, it would be useful to have the extra power.

But as regards putting that sort of money into a 1530 I think you'd be mad.

When I was deciding what laptop to buy, There were loads of specialist ones in the us, selling much more powerful laptops for about the same money.

The only reason I got the 1530 over one of those is that I'd have to pay vat at 21% as well as other customs and imports duties, and thats out of the money I've already paid 50% tax on -- We really do get screwed in this country!!

So it realy wouldn't have made economic sence to buy one. I d'know may be next year if I'm over on holls I'l get one then.

Hence I don't understand the logic of buying a chip (an old tech chip) and putting it into a mid range laptop, I had a look at the dell site and they're what 1500 bucks+ ???? Madness.

 

Answer! For RivaTuner:

Hope that helps. Other than VBIOS-overclocking to those speeds with NiBiToR (which I don't recommend since it doesn't reset on restart if you set it too high), it's the only way I know of to overclock beyond the usual limits in overclocking programs.

As for the X9000 overclocking, BIOSMAN probably is your best bet. You'd have a better chance of getting hit by lightning in a valley in Wyoming and stung by a stringray off Australia in one day and surviving both than finding a PLL that will let you overclock the 1530 based on all the information available on the Internet (I did a good bit of PLL searching for the 1520 myself awhile back).

 

The pll is the easy bit (just open the laptop), its getting someone to code for the pll thats the problem

 

Similar score to mine, but I have a different CPU and 3gigs of ram... I got 5440

 

Yea, bios OCing is a dream, thats why i make sure when i build my Desktops my mobo bios supports it, (shuttle PC X48 Chipset ftw, my next desktop in a few years, shuttles are shoebox sized PC cases with mobo and fans in it alrdy btw). Thats one of the main reason i got the x9000 in my m1730, it really opens up the throttle on my GPUs, oc them too. Hopfully someone gets those numbers.....will give 1530 a pretty good bump in power and marks score, not to mention with undervolting you could keep it up all the time on the 1530.


Why i love my x9000:

Penryn @ 3.4
8800m GTX SLI GPU @ 610/910/1550
3dmarks06 14,784