Benchmark NP8662 w/ GTX 260M (for the love of god!)

He already offered some benchmarks and said he was going to test games later on. Yes it is annoying when people make threads for a certain subject and then provides information unrelated to the subject. In this case, the OP did provide relevant information. If the OP didn't, the thread would probably die out or be closed.

Shouldn't let your impatience get the best of you.

 

Why hasn't the guy been banned yet?

GJ Ovreagr (can I call you OG!?), you're doing more than I'd ask for from a first time laptop owner

 

Can someone photoshop OG pic and show us(me) where is the cpu,hd,video card,ram.. im also new to this notebook, "stuff"

 

here you go, i made it easier..

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1. GPU 2. HDD 3. RAM 4. northbridge 5. CPU 6. Fan 7. WLAN

 

I would have been right, but didn't want to risk being wrong

 

its all in the User's Manual.

 

Hey, the guy has the right to enjoy his laptop. At least this isn't like the infamous Alienware thread that was title (M15X review with pictures and benchmarks) and after 15 pages, only then did someone ask, 'Wait, where are the pictures and benchmarks?'

 

How about a 3dmark at 1680 x 1050?

 

Unless he buys the full version of 3dmark, he's stuck at 1280x1024

 

Thanks for the benchmarks!

 

what benchmarks? gophn ran more test than him. *LOL*

 

hes doing them now, I am PM'ing with him about games and demos to do benchmarks with.

calm down folks, he's new to this high-end gaming / benchmark scene.

 

ungrateful ()! this is better then nothing!

thanks for all the info OG

 

to the OP and Gophn, thanks so much guys for everything you're doing for the NBR community. I'm looking forward to more good stuff, but loving what we're getting all the same. To the OP, any comment on how loud the fans get when the system is running at high capacity?

 

ok, enough of the 3DMark benches, let's bring some Crysis and Crysis Warhead benchmarks...cause we all know that's what matters most

 

I am more than glad to wait...lets cut the guy some slack, he just got his laptop, and as everybody else, he just wants to fiddle with it for a couple of hours before benchmarking...but that is just me...

 

Well I got this laptop last week so I will share a little about performance. I don't have benchmark programs but I did install and tweak Crysis. I get around 25-28 fps with most everything very high and resolution 1600x1050 with no AA. I am using custom configs, which enable effects that usually aren't available.

I can say with the right tweaks you can get a custom setting that is very high visually, and even with some new effects. It plays smooth, I have no problems with multiple enemies or anything. I could tone it down to high settings and get above 30fps but really it plays wonderfully as it is.

I know this is not exactly what you wanted, but I can maybe later toss some screenshots up so you can see the detail I am getting.

 

For me those results are amazing...my main games right now are L4D, DMC4, Assasins Creed, Hellgate London, Call of Cthulhu and Bioshock, and with th NP8662, they should run amazingly well....

 

Nope not at all. I used as it is out of the box. I used Cubans config level 5 and then I found another autoexec.cfg that really made it look much better than that. I run 1680x1050 and I don't have a FPS counter showing but it's smooth. When I was running Cubans config the level 5 variant and getting 25 fps(with fps showing) most of the time. It would sometimes dip to high teens on the Assualt/Harbor map. I imagine it does that now, but honestly I can't tell. I run around smoothly, and no lag or hickups even.

You can max crysis inside the game and it plays ok(bit sluggish sometimes), but with custom configs I get detail that looks better anyways. I guess if you OCed it you could make it even better. But as it is it looks like a ultra high quality version of crysis imo. I could not be more pleased.

I ran fear 2 a bit as well, and it maxed easily and it was handling without any strugggle whatsoever.

 

Updated with a couple Crysis benchmarks that are included with the game.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been helpful and positive in their comments. Thanks also to Gophn, he has been a huge help!!

This laptop looks like it will be a lot of fun and I am excited to see what it can do.

EDIT: To najim and others who are asking about the fan noise. While running the Crysis benchmark and while playing it a bit, the fan(s) definitely kicked into high gear. However, I would not consider them disturbingly or intrusively loud. I had the TV on normal (i.e. reasonable) volume and I did not need to turn it up once the fan went to high.
If there is a more scientific/accurate way to get a comparison (other than buying a decibel meter) please let me know!

 

Something that looks better and runs better than the Cuban Missile config? I'm all up for it, do you have a link where I can download it? It's not the NaturalMod that you're talking about right? PM me the link!

Thanks!!


Also back on topic, my overclocked 9800m GT scores significantly higher than the GTX260m, immature drivers or something?
I get 5585 on SM 2.0 and 5210 on SM 3.0.

 

I'm a bench noob so help me out.
The Crysis GPU benches seem to show around a 24-25 FPS. Do these benches seem low or is it just me?
I'm comparing them with the list here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html

 

dont compare things to NotebookCheck.... they do not fully disclose all information about their tests (hardware setup is usually beta or engineer samples, benchmarks do not show all factors of score, etc.)

 

ah ok, I've heard that before and you're right in that their numbers seem to be all over the place.

comparing these benches to some old NP9262 benches on the NBR Forums with an 8800GTX (and a 2.4ghz Quad Core if that matters) shows only slightly lower FPS: 18-24 depending on the OS, XP getting the 21-23s.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=211255

this seems to show that the 260m is a decent upgrade but not by a ton. What it is however is a MUCH MUCH better cost to performance ratio, considering the price of systems with the 8800/9800m GTX, and the fact that the old NP8660 GPU had a 9800m GS at an identical price.

EDIT: Also, since most of the 9800m GS Crysis marks run at 1024x768, is there a way to bench Crysis at that resolution?

Thanks so much for your service to the community!!!!

 

Added a couple UT3 benchmarks for those who requested it!! Let me know if they need to be run differently!

 

how much would overclocking help?

 

overclocks can usually translate to 5-10% tops of a performance increase.

maybe increasing a few FPS for a game.

I do not really OC anymore, I only did it initially for benchmarking, but its not really that significant overall as compared to stock.

In notebooks, you can only OC it so far... as compared to desktop cards since you can get third-party cooling products for it.

 

Gophn,
i heard that the turbo oc button helps a lot in the msi notebooks
is that true?

 

depends on the system.

if a system has lower-end/mid-range parts, it will have more performance to gain from overclocking.

 

How about the battery life? Can anyone with a 9800M GT compare to the 260M?

 

That UT3 Bench is amusing, how about with 4x AA 16x AF? You can force it in the Nvidia control panel if there isn't an option in game.

 

so the old np8660 could run crysis at the same res & framerate, but a HIGH settings
this is on VERY HIGH
decent progress

 

According to the benchmarks posted, they were done on High, not Very High.

 

aye, doesn't seem to be a terribly high improvement over the NP8660 marks here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsId=4591

 

I'd like to know this too. Can anyone try Empire: Total War on a NP8662? E: TW is half the reason I'd get this machine.

 

Heya David, welcome to NBR.

Can you give us a quick brief on your systems spec? Doubtless that's it's anything too differnt from what we have here uless you asked for a T5800 and only a gig of RAM to be installed. Now those would be amazing FPS.

 

Sorry, kind of off topic-
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Does the NP8662 have the same dimensions as a "normal" laptop and fit in in a Laptop jacket meant for 15.4 laptops?
Thanks!

 

Yes sure I have the
P9600
4G Ram
320G HD 7200rpm
And the 260M GTX

 

I am using autoexec.cfg from Extreme~Quality [1.34] extreme version

And then CCC 2.21 with level 5 and the TOD installed. I first instaled CCC 2.21 level 5 with TOD and then Extreme qualiy .34 extreme version.

I edited a few lines in extreme version cfg to gain some fps. Here is my modified autoexec.cfg. I am not a pro at doing cfg files I just used what I found until I found something I liked.



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r_HDRBrightOffset=8
r_HDRlevel=0.75
r_HDRRendering=2
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r_SSAO_amount=0.4
r_SSAO_blur=4
r_SSAO_blurriness=1
r_SSAO_darkening=1.1
r_SSAO_quality=2
r_SSAO_radius=2
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e_shadows_cast_view_dist_ratio=0.5
e_shadows_from_terrain_in_all_lods=0
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r_ShadowBlur=3
r_ShadowJittering=1.5
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Trying to post screenshots so you can judge if settings are good or not. Here is a link to extreme quality mod http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=31242

http://yfrog.com/0bscreenshot0000ej

http://yfrog.com/07screenshot0006ej

http://yfrog.com/07screenshot0004paxj

http://yfrog.com/07screenshot0002khqj

 

allot of jaggies....

 

Well it's 1680x1050 turn on AA if you like. But really on a 15 inch screen jaggies arent an issue. Remember that is imageshack

 

Stills always look worse than when in motion.

 

Hmm...I was hoping the 8662's scores would sell me on the laptop, but I'm skeptical...still seems like 260m isn't a drastic improvement?

Can we get Crysis benchmarks at lower resolutions? 1280x1024 perhaps?

 

Updated!

 

those are some nice numbers for a 15 inch portable. Makes me think it'll run ETW on high settings. Might be able to squeeze a few ultra settings out of it as well, but not many.

 

what's the difference between cpu/gpu benchmark?
also, has anyone tried to oc this card?

 

umm, let me think about that for a minute....ummm. no! not to sound harsh or anything.

 

Ovreagr, would you mind changing driver to see if GPU-Z will correctly recognize your 260M?

Btw, the heatsink appears to be unchanged.