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    M570TU Memory not running at full speed?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by nIMrOD888, Sep 13, 2009.

  1. nIMrOD888

    nIMrOD888 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I thought something was up with my laptop when I first got it as Vista only gave my memory a rating of 5.0 in the index (its DDR3 1333Mhz) and it was scoring in the 4000MB/s in everest benchmarks but I had nothing to compare it to.

    I have now also got an Alienware M17x with DDR3 1066Mhz ram which scores 5.9 and over 2000MB/s faster than my M570TU's memory.

    Whats the problem here?

    Last time I was told to update my bios but that ended up killing the laptop and it took 2 months for it to get repaired.
     
    nIMrOD888, Sep 13, 2009
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    nIMrOD888, Sep 14, 2009
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    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    WEI is a waste of time. Don't put any weight into it. It always gets things off.
     
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    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    I agree with emike but if you want people to look at it closer add screen shots of CPU-Z both the memory and spd tabs of both your systems.
     
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    Emike you have a M570TU as well, could you run a memory benchmark in everest to compare with please?

    Here are my scores:

    M570TU

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    /\ thats weird the ram is showing up as 1066Mhz when it is 1333Mhz :S

    M17x

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    Mandrake, do you ever get the feeling the SLi in your M17x isn't doing anything? I've never had an SLi machine before and there really isn't any performance difference between the M17x and the M570TU in fact its slower in all the benchmarks I've put it through. What drivers do you use?
     
    nIMrOD888, Sep 15, 2009
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    Your M570's memory would run at 1066 unless you had a means of changing it like you do with the M17x. Unless of course they change the bios to read the memory properly but that could lead to instability.

    Regarding my drivers for benchmarks I use Dox 182.46. Games I usually use Dell's latest drivers. If you are scoring only single card performance on it then something is wrong.
     
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    Oh right, well I might swap the memory out into the M17x and see how it runs... could also swap the CPUs while I'm at it too.

    Wonder if you can push the X9100 to 4Ghz....
     
    nIMrOD888, Sep 15, 2009
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    Ya people have pushed the X9100 to 4GHz. Just gotta keep that thing cold.

    I don't have a full version of everest and the trial won't let me test much, but for the most part, my scores matched yours. Just a smidgen faster, but I might blame that on the X9100.
     
    emike09, Sep 16, 2009
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    Well I swapped the ram around and the Clevo ram detected at 1333Mhz but was still slower by about 300MB/s in all 3 benchmarks, and I put the Alienware ram in the Clevo and it performed the same as the Clevo ram in the Clevo machine.

    *shrug*

    Maybe the M570TU has a crappy memory controller.
     
    nIMrOD888, Sep 18, 2009
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