How to tell if my build is working at full performance?

Hi All,

Today i had delivered a nice shiny new OKUK Limited Edition P170EM with I7 3630Q, 7970M, 8GB mem and Samsung 250gb SSD.

Now i spent a heck of a lot of money (for me anyway) on this build to be used primarly for the latest games so I want it singing to its highest tune

Can anyone recommend anyway of telling if i have all the drivers and setup to work as they should do? Mainly interested in the GPU and to spot any faults with drivers, optimization etc.

I tried Tomb Raider on full setting minus tress and its about 60fps but when i looked at GPU-Z s/w it said my 7970 only had a clock speed of 300mhz and the Intel had 650mhz! Am i doing something wrong here?

I installed all the drivers first, restarted, intel, restarted, clevo ati drivers, restarted and lastly 13.1 ATI drivers, restarted.

Any guidance would be greatly appreicated

 

You can run some benchmark programs like 3D mark as see if your'e getting number around what other people with the 7970M are getting. Its hard to tell by looking at FPS in a game.

 

P6391 with AMD Radeon HD 7970M(1x) and Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor

Graphics Score 6485
Physics Score 6478
Combined Score 5664

Would that suggest everything is fine and dandy? Sorry new to this

edit:

Graphics Card AMD Radeon HD 7970M

2,048 MBCore clock

300 MHz Memory clock

150 MHzDriver name

AMD Radeon HD 7970MDriver version 9.12.0.0Driver statusFM Approved

Still showing as 300mhz, is this a bug in 3dmark?

 

everything you need for monitoring is in my sig below

is the above scores from 3dmark11? at work so i cant check them.

download the latest 3dmark and run that and then compare to this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/707367-3dmark-released.html

 

ok, 3dmark downloaded and benchmarks ran:

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM

ICE Storm - 31335
Cloud Gate - 4437
Firestrike - 600 (almost came to a stand still )

After looking at similar specs im laughably out of sync!?

 

ouch! that hurts.
things to check... make sure you are running on high performance. click battery in task bar and check its not set to balanced.
check your amd control panel that the benchys are using your amd and not the HD4000
report back

 

Thanks for your help MrDJ, really appreciate it. Feel like my £1200 bit of kit is useless right now

Ok so I removed the 7970M drivers and the results were better using my intel card only AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM. Didnt do a full test as the firestorm is painfully slow at the moment. The results pick up my ATI card but it looks like its not using it in anyway.

Ok will check the other bits now (once ive installed the 7970 driver) and report back :thumbsup:

 

your welcome mate, thats what were here for.

who's OKUK is that overclockers?

strange that you got a higher score after removing the ati drivers. ive only ever owned a desktop with ati back in the prehistoric days and it blew up after a year so ive always had nvidia ever since

 

Yep, Overclockers. Its the limited edition Clevo P170EM, looked lovely until i started doing the tests lol

So i installed the 13.2 beta drivers and got the following:

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM

Ice storm - 87928
Cloud Gate - 16802

Its also saying my CORE is now 850mhz not 300

So looks like its fixed it??

 

One thing that is odd though is that GPU-Z still says my clock is 300mhz... freeking graphics switching!

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/383776

And another test... worse than before but its seems the GPU has gone to 450mhz now. Its up and down like a yo yo

 

benchmarks will always go up and down but those scores are looking much better.

this is what i get
Ice Storm Cloud Gate Fire Strike
P92933 P16238 P3810

P93272 P16374 P3808

P93758 P16346 P3808

P92863 P16390 P3811

enjoy your new lappy

 

How many FPS do you get when playing Kirby's Dreamland?

MrDJ is right about the benchmark variations. I think in published tests, they run multiple passes and then post the medium/average.

 

kirbys dreamland,what a wicked game. ok it was on the gameboy and about 25 years ago. still got it and it still works but the 2" screen lets it down.

 

Thanks guys (esp MrDJ), nice one!

 

You could download the .bin, convert it to .iso, burn it to a blu-ray and upscale it.

cfcboy - How is your laptop treating you outside of synthetic benchmarking?

 

no probs mate,your welcome.

dont forget to download maybe core temps and hwinfo64 to monitor your cpu temps and msi after burner to monitor your gpu temps (not sure what else to use for to monitor ati cards). all in sig below.

if you really want to push your lappy to the limit run intel extreme tuning utility which should be pre loaded, if not thats also below.
it melts my 15"

 

Loving it now thanks. Been sometime since ive had something so powerful in my hand

 

Quality tips, will do