Question for Bokeh on 3DMark11 performance of 6700

I have a question for bokeh, after I was reading some of his performance notes in the owner's review thread. Thanks in advance for your insight!

I read in there you ran a 3DMark11 test on the 6700 you received. I assume this was pretty much out of the box. You reported:
P6048
graphics - 5846
physics - 9369
combined 4753

I am trying to duplicate your results to check out my laptop. I have the i7-3920XM, 16GB/1866 MHz memory, FHD 1920x1080 IPS RGB panel, K5000M. 512GB SSD, which I thikn might be the same configuration you tested.

I ran 3DMark11 on mine, it still has the installation that came from Dell on it (I added some apps of course). I also stopped pretty much every process/app that could be stopped via the process list, I changed to Windows 7 Basic theme, and I got this:
P5007
graphics - 4736
physics - 9464
combined - 3924

I am running the K5000. Did you overclock, or change visual effects to "adjust for best performance"? The difference clearly seems to be in cgraphics card and I am wondering if there is a problem. Turning off a lot of stuff only added 35 points to the graphics result, so the difference seems to be too much for this.

Thank you bokeh!

BTW for anyone reading this - first run I neglected to stop the PremierColor calibration app. If you do the same 3DMark11 will error out with this message:
Workload Single init returned error message: DXGI call IDXGISwapChain::SetFullscreenState failed:
The requested functionality is not supported by the device or the driver.
DXGI_ERROR_NOT_CURRENTLY_AVAILABLE

 

As an add-on piece of data, besides all the other stuff I just re-ran the tests using Dell's Ultra Performance power setting, and Visual effects set to "Adjust for best performance", and there was virtually no change in the numbers. I am thinking bokeh you overclocked the K5000?

Thanks!

 

I will go back and re-test the 3D Mark numbers. I was running the testing on a completely fresh install of W7 Enterprise with minimal services and applications running.

I was however running NvidiaInspector on the machine, and since you are the second person to post these numbers, maybe something was being set on startup that I did not see.

*At your own risk* - run NvidiaInspector and set the clocks at 720/1700 - and see if our scores line up. If so, I definitely need to go back and rerun the 3D Mark tests.

One of the things that I found is that Nvidia is clocking the K5000M VERY conservatively for Dell and HP. Since the Dell has much better cooling, I don't understand why Nvidia will not let it run at a faster stock setting.

 

I ran it at 720/1700, and I got:
P5766
Graphics - 5530
Physics - 9087
Combined 4696

Improved but graphics still substantially below yours. Odd too, physics actually dropped for me, 9464 -> 9087!

I wonder if we have the same h/w and drivers? From the Adapter/Properties tab I have BIOS 80.4.33.0.35, Driver is version date 5/10/2012 ver=8.17.12.9679.

 

I was running 296.79 Dell Drivers and a bare bones install of W7. Are you on a 240 watt power adapter?

Also - run it at least twice to get everything cached.

 

There's a thread for that: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...79326-dell-precision-m6700-owners-review.html

 

Same drivers then. Yes I am on a 240W power adapter. Do we have the same BIOS on the K5000M, 80.4.33.0.35?