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    M17 OC Benchmarking - The Next Generation!

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Mandrake, Dec 11, 2009.

  1. Mandrake

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    Hi all! I wanted to start a M17 Over-clocking and Benchmarking thread. Since I wasn't an M17 owner when it first came out and I know I'm behind the times. Figured I'd start now.

    Here's my first attempt at 3DMark06 with my Quad OC'ed and my GPU's stock.
    [​IMG]

    So far my highest OC.
    [​IMG]

    M17 owners please join in!
     
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  2. Mandrake

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    XMP profile works with the M17 and the Intel bios.

    [​IMG]
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    Less than 2k away from the m17x!!?? I wonder if.. noooo
     
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  5. Mandrake

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    Another screen shot. If I had the 4850s I would be able to challenge the M17x with this system.
     

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  6. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    woot it's about time

    hum grrrrrrrrrrrrrr 3dm06 is purely a cpu bench

    here go my bench at stock speed
    [​IMG]

    @2100
    [​IMG]

    @2200
    [​IMG]

    @2300
    [​IMG]

    each bump of 100 mhz make my score go up of about 500 pts.....

    i definitly need to get a qx9300 asap if i wan to show anything in that bench cause my q9000 bsod after 2355
     
    granyte, Dec 11, 2009
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  7. Mandrake

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    Nice. I've been doing 3DMark06 because I've been playing with CPU OC'ing. When it's time to OC the GPUs I will start working with Vantage.
     
    Mandrake, Dec 11, 2009
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  8. nodeffect

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    Here's mine running at 3.06GHZ QX9300 with ATI Radeon 4850 Crossfire Enabled.
    [​IMG]

    [Update]
    [​IMG]
     
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    Nice. Might have to start bribing some 4850 owners.

    Here's an '06 and a Vantage with some X9100 and GPU overclocking.

    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]
     
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  10. Mandrake

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    Heavy CPU OC running the Intel XTU stress test while checking DPC.

    [​IMG]
     
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  11. nodeffect

    nodeffect Notebook Evangelist

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    Mandrake, how did you make your temperature so low? in case you dint see my post.
     
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  12. cookinwitdiesel

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    I will be frequenting this thread :)

    The M17 can stomp the M17x in 06....ATI cards just destroy nvidia ones in it - nevermind the better overclocking! Vantage is a whole other story though lol
     
    cookinwitdiesel, Dec 11, 2009
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  13. WaR

    WaR Notebook Virtuoso

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    Nice scores.

    Not to hijack your thread or anything but let me sneak in a question. Mandrake, is your M17 OK after coming back from sleep mode or it lags?

    Sleep mode was a problem before and I'm wondering if that is still the case.
     
    WaR, Dec 11, 2009
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  14. -Maximus-

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    I wish you had the 4850's Mandrake :)
     
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    he would not be doing anything you could not do yourself Maxiumus ;)
     
    cookinwitdiesel, Dec 11, 2009
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  16. dondadah88

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    stock gpu's overclocked cpu's.
    [​IMG]
     
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  17. Mandrake

    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    I'm doing the benchmarks with the bottom off on top of a cooler.

    Normally I'm on battery when dealing with sleep mode since I close it to move around. Coming out of it is no issue but I'm not trying to game on battery.

    Me too. :(
     
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  18. ShinJ

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    nice mandrake you brought the pride of m17 :)
    I will post my score with a Q9200 and single 4850 later for reference. University final exams are killing me arghhh~
     
    ShinJ, Dec 11, 2009
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  19. JasonNH

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    Heh, this is what I have been doing during long gaming sessions too. Drops the GPU temp by 10-15 degrees!
     
    JasonNH, Dec 11, 2009
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    I just drilled holes

    does the same thing :)

    with my cooler on full blast my gpu's never hit past 82-86, 86 being the absolute max (like crysis or something)

    :)


    Oh and I have lots of copper ramsinks all over the gpu sink
     
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  21. Mandrake

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    I just finished adding some ramsinks to my cpu heatsink and added a copper shim to my NB. Don't know if it helps yet.
     
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    aren't you suppose to be sleeping?
     
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  23. Mandrake

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    It's Friday, I can sleep in!
     
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    oh oh lol.

    well i have some old out dated runs from my whitebook and my qx9300 was only at 3.2ghz but i will still put them up.
     
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  25. Mandrake

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    Do you remember your temps pre and post copper mod?
     
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    no. it should not change. it was to help stuttering not heat
     
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  27. Mandrake

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    Stuttering hasn't been an issue until I OC the GPUs.
     
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    what program you used to overclock and what have you overclocked to?
     
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    I thought the heat makes the stuttering ? no ?
     
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  30. Mandrake

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    gputool and I've been trying all kinds of settings.
     
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    it's the way how the quad sits on the heatsink not letting proper contact on the northbridge.

    mandrake you need to put cooler heatsinks on the gpu where the memory is....
     
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  32. Mandrake

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    Heatsinks or shims? More ramsinks on the GPU heatsink?
     
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  33. dondadah88

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    like this
    [​IMG]
     
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  34. cookinwitdiesel

    cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher

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    that actually quad's machine which will be for sell shortly if not already

    was originall HaloGod007's
     
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  35. Mandrake

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    I need to get lower profile ramsinks. I was clipping the ones I had just to fit.
     
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  36. cookinwitdiesel

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    ya, they are snug

    The kingston ones are snug in my M17x, just the way it is
     
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  37. Mandrake

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    Do you know what brand is in the pic?
     
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  39. Mandrake

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    No, that I have already. I'm talking about the little heatsinks on the GPU.

    BTW, tighter memory timings = increased stuttering.
     
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  40. Mandrake

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    Take a look at this. Temps too hot for idle?
     

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    cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher

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    You can get these:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835708009

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887017

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...5108071&cm_re=swiftech-_-35-108-071-_-Product

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...5108094&cm_re=swiftech-_-35-108-094-_-Product

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...5108096&cm_re=swiftech-_-35-108-096-_-Product

    The blue ones come with this, unfortunately not by them selves though:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118117

    well here is everything I have to play around with for cooling:
    [​IMG]

    And here is what can be done with all that, some ideas I had and some things other people actually did
    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]

    The one at the end was my proposed plan of action before I just sold my whitebook. Still have all the sinks though
     
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  42. cookinwitdiesel

    cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher

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    Ya that is kind of hot for idle...but 3.6, who cares! lol

    Just run it on cryo with cover off and it should be fine ;)

    And sorry for all my pictures being huge...need to scale them down I guess
     
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  43. Mandrake

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    Yeah but now I'm getting stuttering without OC'ing the GPUs.
     
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  44. granyte

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    it's 10 deg higher then runing with the back pannel and the crappy things that cut the airflow
     
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  45. cookinwitdiesel

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    the stutter in the whitebook had nothing to do with OC's, it just happened period when there was a quad installed
     
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  46. Mandrake

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    yeah but is it too high for 3.6Ghz?
     
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  47. Mandrake

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    I think Intel was right about 3.7Ghz. ;)
     

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    :eek: nice what is the highest ever reached in the m17X
     
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    I'd like to contribute this to show there was some fire in the M17.

    This *beats pretty much any M17x or M980NU at stock speeds*, and I only had a dual core model.
    Oh...I had no stuttering though :D

    [​IMG]

    Wish I could use Intel XTU. Control like that is about the only thing the M980NU lacks.
     
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  50. EviLCorsaiR

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    Holy. Crap.

    You actually managed to push a QX9300 to 3.7GHz? Jesus christ, that's bloody amazing. You must have got a really good chip...perhaps the ones Intel themselves hit 3.7GHz with :p

    Can you actually stress it at that however without it overheating and/or crashing?
     
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