The GTX 280M Overclocking and Benchmarking Results Thread

I thought you gave up, lol! You're almost there.

 

I know...it's addictive what can I say!?

How many people broke 12k?

 

I don't know anyone else who it 11889. You should start posting screen shots of these scores.

Edit: Ichime on the W90 says he hit 11.7K and Kcissem on the M17x said he hit 11.6K.

 

im aiming for your record mandrake, nothing but record

 

Trust me I've been waiting for competition.....bring it! lol!

I can't really get any of the M17x owners to get into but some of the known "benchrunners" will soon get the system also.

 

Some day I'll get mine in and step up to the plate too. Question, does hard drive spee affect the benchmarkers at all? Just curious.

 

For the most part no but it also depends on the benchmark itself. If it's a benchmark for disks then yes obviously it would matter. The biggest advantage you'll see from a fast hdd is the loading up of the app itself.

 

lol @ 'benchrunners'

 

Yeah I'm talking about you. Although I don't think you've made up your mind yet on a system have you?

 

nah donda having an internal clash of titans

 

lol. I have to pay for school this month so there's a delay in getting my system, otherwise I would of ordered it already.


when my school is done. I WILL have enough data to choose which manchine is better.I have pros and cons about both. but it's not the right thread to ost about them.

 

but what you have ordered?

 

Thats the Million dollar question .

 

first time ever donda falls silent

 

Lol. i can't believe i'm put on the spot like this.

 

Whoever is ontop of the mountain will always be on the spot, dondadah88, haha. I'll let you SLi people have your fun. I'm not fighting in this war.

 

your suppose to be the "sunrise" that lets everyone be at peace

 

stop avoiding the question

 

i am not avoiding the question. i am just telling everyone that i'm put on the spot. lol.

 

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I hope your on my said with that.

 

please help me taking a look on a new thread i started.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5192258#post5192258

 

I recently flashed the bios of my 280m gtx back to the original (unaltered) bios.
I was getting some hickups while playing games (in some games the image would go weird too) and an error message: the display driver stopped working even without overclocking the video card.
After I flashed the bios back to it's original setting all the problems were gone.
I used the slightly overclocked bios posted in this thread overvolting the card to 1.05v

 

Sounds like a typical symptom of overclocking too high. What clocks was that BIOS set to?

 

600/1500/950 by default. I've had 0 issues with the overvolt and those clocks, but stock voltage and the same clocks can get hairy. I could overclock higher, but there's no need to.

 

Yeah it's weird it's only a mild overclock/volt

core: 600 (583 stock)
shader: 1500 (1450 stock)
memory: 950 (800 stock)

voltages:

extra: 1.05v (from 1v stock)
2d: 0.8v (? from 0.85v stock)

standard settings in windows and the gpu didnt get that hot full load in the 70's

 

So do you guys know how to add/enforce additional refresh rates for the adapter? Right now it doesn't list anything over 60hz though the external monitor supports it. I'm not sure if this would be a bios or driver change.

 

I don't know if this has been posted already... but.

Today I managed to get the time to do some testing on my 280M.

I've OC the card to 610/1525/900 with 1.05v and ran OCCT GPU stress test.

My conclusion is... this thing runs hot. I managed to hit 102 C maximum temp, although the card stabilized at 101C after 20 minutes of running the test.

I know that with the stock clocks and voltage the card gets maximum 80-82C if I recall well. I wonder how much you can OC with the stock voltage.

I have no laptop cooler and I use Arctic MX-2.

 

with the stock voltage my max OC was 650-1000-1625

this was just a 3dmark06 run, i'm not sure about my normal playing clocks
i think they were about 620-950-1550

 

I've just ran a 20 min OCCTP test with 1V at 625/1560/900, besides getting almost the same high temp : 99C after 20min, the card is also unstable.

I will do some more testing with the 1.05 voltage. It looks like the 1V is not a winner for a stable OC.

 

Thats something I don't understand why would my vid card act up strange when i overclock it a bit at 1.05v while others can overclock higher at stock voltage even.
We all have the same cooler (I don't have a laptop cooler tho, well I have one but I should buy a new one for this laptop as the old one doesnt fit right the vents that is).

 

Not every core is the same. Of course every card is 100% stable at stock clocks, and that's the only promise Nvidia has to keep. I can't complain that my 280M is a lame overclocker and get a refund

Not that I should, but I haven't had any problems at 600/1500/950 at 1.05v. Max temp is just about 80C in Crysis. Higher clocks are hotter and less stable, and don't offer much more performance, so I stick with those clocks. At 1v, it runs cooler but the same clocks are only somewhat stable. I think 583/1450/950 would run fine at 1v, but since my temps are good and I'm not hurting anything, I'm sticking with what I've got.

 

How can i increase my Voltage from 1V to 1.05V?

 

In Nibitor (get the latest version). Search for the guides.

 

I have the D900F with an i7 975

GTX 280M clocked at 700/1050/1550

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk114/katiephil/3dmark0615291.jpg

I think the GTX still has some more left in it, will test and report back

I also have the M980NU that did 660/980/1525 on the GTX280M's (single card) SLI was pants. I need to test this again now I have the new overclocking bios for it.

Using Nvidia control panel to OC these are the results for the M980NU (single GPU 3dmark 06):

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk114/katiephil/6609801525.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk114/katiephil/signature.jpg

While oc'ing these laptops the thermal paste has been replaced with MK2 and the back of the laptop was taken off. The M980NU I also had a 190cfm Delta fan blowing under the laptop.

Its a shame I could not get XP to work with these the scores would of been better.

am still trying so hope I can get a better scores

Does anyone know how the CPU can be oc'ed on the D900F ??

 

Holy cow, that's some pretty crazy overclocking!

 

Raise your shader clock to 1700+, try to keep a 1:2.5 core/shader ratio. 15k+ with a single GPU laptop is unheard of so far, but to be expected with the i975. Keep up the overclocking!

And oh yeah, drivers... Dox 182.05 Performance is the best 3dmark06 drver, but it's less stable at higher clocks. I had 13k on stock clocks with that driver, so it is worth the trouble. Dox 182.46 and Nvidia's 185.85 (I think) are pretty good as well. The current 186.81 isn't the best for 06, but it's a solid overall driver, and is what I use. I'm long past benchmarking now, scores in sig.

 

nice you beat me stocked gpu overclocked cpu

3dMark06

 

My card is a decent overclocker I think, but sometimes some games cause it to crash if I clock it too high... 650/1000/1650 seems awesome for most games, the ones that like to crash I drop it to 630/1000/1600. Works 100% stable at those clocks.

What's the highest stable memory clock you guys got? Best I've heard of was 1060, but mine was not stable there.

 

i just got mines on yesterday so i don't know right now but i will be testing it out.

 

Mine are the ones in my sign. I could probably go a bit higher but I would need to change the voltage to 1.05. For now, the card is performing brilliantly and not one crash or any other abnormal behaviour.

IMO the best utility to find your stable overclock is OCCTP GPU test. Run it for 15 minutes and if you get 0 errors or maybe 2-3 errors at very high temps 98C+ it you are safe, the clocks will be rock solid.

 

I just did some benchmarks, following the same guidelines as the OP in his Crysis benchmark tool, and my results are on average less than 2fps difference with my 260m compared to the 280m. I thought the performance gap would be more than that between the two cards.

 

How much does the 260M and the 280M pull in raw numbers?

 

What do you mean by pull? <--- May be nooby question

 

He wants him to show some results.

 

Yeah, I want to see how much are those compared to to whole fps score. it's one thing to have 2fps increase from 23 to 25 fps and another to have it from 98 to 100.

 

I'm sorry, so is their a difference from the difference between 23-25 and 98-100??

Do you mean, do I walk around in a game and record in my journal the median average of the fps compared to a 280M, or do I simply use a benchmark tool instead?

I was simply comparing the OP's benchmark results, with the ones that I did -- in comparison to his-- to see the difference in performance. And so far its 2-3fps difference(in crysis).

 

Ah, ok then. But on which of the settings to you get 2-3 fps more. High, medium, etc. This is why I am asking your average fps in the Crysis benchmark, no need to get offensive over this.

yes, there is. in the first case means the card is 8% more powerful in the second it means is 2% more powerful. About 6-8% should be difference between 260M and 280M in terms of performance.

 

The crysis benchmark I used was the OP's DX10 64bit 1680x1050.

I know the 280M has more SP than my 260M, and he has a better cpu, but I assumed the 280M would be 5-10 fps better than my 260M. In other words a 10-15% difference, in crysis.

But it apparently isn't so, it seems.

 

crysis high REMEMBER this is sli scores
if you don't want sli let me know.

stock gpu overclocked cpu.....
10/18/2009 9:01:22 AM - Vista 64
Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX10 1900x1200, AA=No AA, Vsync=Disabled, 32 bit test, FullScreen
Demo Loops=3, Time Of Day= 9
Global Game Quality: High
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TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 64.70s, Average FPS: 30.91
Min FPS: 25.53 at frame 158, Max FPS: 48.73 at frame 967
Average Tri/Sec: -21293494, Tri/Frame: -688851
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.33
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 48.17s, Average FPS: 41.52
Min FPS: 25.53 at frame 158, Max FPS: 51.20 at frame 91
Average Tri/Sec: -28518760, Tri/Frame: -686914
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.33
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 48.06s, Average FPS: 41.61
Min FPS: 25.53 at frame 158, Max FPS: 51.58 at frame 105
Average Tri/Sec: -28536692, Tri/Frame: -685748
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.34
TimeDemo Play Ended, (3 Runs Performed)
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Completed All Tests

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10/18/2009 9:01:22 AM - Vista 64

Run #1- DX10 1900x1200 AA=No AA, 32 bit test, Quality: High ~~ Overall Average FPS: 41.565