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    NP8278-S System Bench Help

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by flyguy4212, Sep 8, 2014.

  1. flyguy4212

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    Hey guys! Finally got all the little bugs and quirks worked out of my laptop. Now I'm working on getting the most out of my system. I've got a single 880m and the 4810mq processor in this thing. I benched it with 3DMark till I got the king of results I was looking for. Well at least I think so. Please let me know if these results are even close to where I should be with this thing Thanks!!
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4810MQ Processor,Notebook P17SM-A

    I hope that link works if not my Total score was: P9108 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M(1x) and Intel Core i7-4810MQ Processor
    Graphics Score 9601
    Physics Score 8054
    Combined Score 7662

    Edit: Added Fire Strike score http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2719946
     
    flyguy4212, Sep 8, 2014
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  2. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    that link is for 3dmark11 and not 3dmark. you can download 3dmark from my sig below.

    compared to my 2 year old spec below which gets a score of P6201 in 3dmark11 (i have no idea how much higher yours should be).
    when you open your link it should show a graph to compare with others with your spec.
     
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    That seems fair enough for stock.
     
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    Ok then I must be doing something wrong then because that is definitely not stock lol.
    GPU is running at Core clock1,043 MHz Memory bus clock1,495 MHz
    CPU is at 4.2
     
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    are you plugged into mains power and set to high performance.
    my last fire strike was 4033 but difficult to compare from a 680 to a 880
     
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    Definitely plugged in and set to high performance. Is it really that bad?? Ive been googleing some scores and it seems to be pretty high. Unless im missing something
    your 680m gota 4033 while my 880m got a 6176. Isnt that like over a 50% increase?
     
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    I really can't remember if that's good or bad. I think it's fairly good for your clocks, but I could be way way wrong. You could ask over at the Alienware M18x sub-forums about it; those guys usually bench a lot more.
     
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    What did you set the TDP to?
     
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    Right now I got it set to 67w for just gaming and doing things (was set to that as well for the benching) Ive messed around with taking it to the 70's it tops out around 77w but it gets too hot too fast. With 67w under full tilt the 4.2 oc drops a little to 3.9 to 4.0 and hovers around 90c, but if i feed it 75w it will do the full 4.2 (probaby more) but will throttle down
     
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    No the cpu TDP is of little importance, i mean the gpu. Overclocking a power limited card will only lower your performance.
     
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    I have not changed the power usage of the video card other than a freq overclock because im using svl7's modded bios
     
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    If your card hits the max temp of 92c, it'll downclock in the bench. You should watch that.
     
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    Those are both good scores.
     
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    Well try raising the GPU power level in nvidia inspector (while watching temps of course).
     
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    I can't get my clock over 1043mhz without passing the 93 degree mark. Will lowering voltage give less TDP? I've only managed to hit 6800ish on graphics score in firestrike.

    Also, does the power limit just allow the GPU to draw more power from the wall?
     
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    Voltage has the single biggest impact on power usage of any variable.
     
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    How do you make your CPU stay constantly at the specified multiplier? Mine seems to fluctuate even though my temps are in the 60s 70s range. Is it something to do with the TDP limit? (4700mq btw)
     
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    XTU will tell you usages of each. What did you set the max amps to?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Sep 14, 2014
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