M15x + ATI 5870 (MOD)

I dont think that the DisplayPort Sound Issue will be fixed with a Dell Mobility 5870. I think its a general problem with the mobility 5870. Because i had a 285M GTX (Clevo) in my M15x before and the DP-Sound worked.

 

here are some oc'ed benches i did at night. and please don't judge me by my wallpaper,lol.

 

Now that there has been some benching for a bit, it there any census on what drivers is giving the best vantage scores?

 

Ran ATI TOOl scan last night for an hour and the temperature went up to 88C. Overclocked at 900/1100. None of the game I play had reach temperature that high before.

 

How does the 5850 GDDR5 perform as compared to 5870 GDDR5.... because i don't see a lot of difference in fps benchmarks in games according to nottebookcheck.net.....

 

Once people get their 5850's all will see that the 5870's have substantial better performance, especially in bench marks like vantage and 3dmark, etc.

 

I think the performance difference will come down to how good the 5850 binned parts are. If they overclock into the 800+ territory, the difference between the 5850 & 5870 will be marginal at best in games. Synthetics there might be a few hundred points of difference in vantage, big deal.

 

I agree. If the 5850 handles overclocks as well as this card, then you should be able to at least overclock the card to stock 5870 clocks. I just hope dell doesnt underclock the card by default.

The 5850 will certainly be better than 260m.

 

The HD 5870 is ATi's flagship GPU right now. It should do EVERYTHING better than the 5850... EXCEPT for battery life, imo...

 

so what drivers are people using to bench. i'm still using the 10.3 anyone find something better. i just updated the M15c benchmark thread with my new scores. really want to see someone break the 10k mark for the gpu.

here are my bench scores: clocks 915/1145 for both test

06: 16563
vantage : gpu:9530 cpu:16658

 

It will definitely be better than the 260M, even at stock clocks. I have a good feeling it will be an excellent overclocker as well.

Yes and the 5850 is identical to the 5870 except for the core clock being 75 mhz lower. So someone with a 5850 can overclock it right back up to 5870 speeds either through software or a bios flash. Given how well the 5870 overclocks, getting 100+ overclock out of a 5850 should be very easy. So if someone is looking for value, the price Dell charges for the 5850 is fantastic.

 

How much does Dell charge for an outright buying of the card (not with a system) the 5850? Is it less than $349.00? Anyone know?

 

im wondering that myself

 

Good question, you can call Dell spare parts and find out I suppose. Chris from Dell did put up the part number in another thread. Anyway, the price I was referring to was with a newly configured M15x. If someone has an outlet M15x + 240M/260M, they get referred to you

 

i tried upping my cpu multiplier but resulted in lower gpu scores but higher cpu scores. is that normal?

 

Could be hitting a power limit with the OC'ing. You guys are getting some fantastic overclocking out of the M15x + 5870 though. 900 core on the 5870 with an OC'd 920xm is insanely fast. Makes me wish I had an M15x with 5850/5870 to play with.

 

yeah just broke 17.5k for the cpu but gpu back down to 9.2k for vantage. yeah the 5870 oc's great. that would suck if that is limiting the power.

 

Wow! 17.5k for the cpu is remarkable! Maybe with some slight adjustments, maybe trying another driver, the gpu could be upped a little...

 

The M17x R2 never got its CPU score that high.. while the G73 was able to do 20k cpu score.

This is easily the single GPU notebook to have though...(or a single GPU M17x if you want the larger size)

 

I agree, scook.

Loving mine while I still have it.

For Sale if anyone is interested

 

Not gonna colorware it afterall?

 

This is my benchmark ' 06 value and the temps after two rounds. I think they are okay!?!

 

what are your specs dr vain??? and what clocks are you running?

 

I've used the standard clocks. I also tries the vantage benchmark. With the vantage i got temps like 80°-83° max. I hope they are okay.

I'm asking myself... will Dell use a new/another heatpipe for the mobility 5850?

 

those seem good for stock clocks, and those temps are fine. yeah i waiting to see what they we do with these new cards.

 

Current ATi Mobiliy HD 587O now available...

 

wish that popped right out of my screen and i could install that piece of beauty into my M15x lol

 

I see you have been boosted to notebook retailer status haha

Congrats!

 

Once you pass the $100K in merchandise sold plateau you automatically get bumped up.

 

I doubt he is that high yet.....but he is doing well lol

Pretty sure just about all of us have helped him along now at some point

 

Because I have ongoing sales in the marketplace that is what happened...in any case I hope I can still be in most cases just good ol' babyhemi...

 

Of course, just now you are good old babyhemi who sells us stuff at great prices

 

Do you think the ATI 5870 mobility compare to the desktop gtx 260?

 

Hi guys, i've decided to buy some new thermal pads from frozencpu site, although, they didnt have 1mm, they had .5mm, i ordered one, thinking it should work just fine if i stacked it up, right? I just wanted to run this by you guys to "double check" thanks!

 

actually they do have 1mm thermal pads, just call and they would cut for you.

 

Life kicked me in the nuts and almost everything I own worth anything is getting sold.

The Sig. My M15x. Whatever.

I was doing good when I sold the W870 and bought the M15x.

Things have changed drastically and now I will be stuck using some POS Inspiron or Studio from Dell

Oh, well.

I'll have my day once again sometime. Just got to keep my head up and stay positive.

 

keep your head up bro, i know you will be back. let me know if there is anything i can do.

also i'll let you have the high gpu score for now but after its sold i'm gonna kill it,lol.

 

Don't hold back

What are you at right now?

 

still in second place, can't seem to beat your score but my last was 9837 for the gpu. go figure by the time i start benching everyone is done.

 

An overclocked ATI 5870 mobility is pretty close. One of my office systems has a nVidia 260GTX with totally stock settings for both the cpu and gpu is the below...

 

wow a desktop card is being matched by a laptop never thought i would see the day o wait i did.

 

Yes it is good to see that a 5870 in a 15' laptop can match this big i7 desktop with a 260GTX in it!

 

wow to be actually be this close to a desktop card is amazing.

 

Yea that is nice. Wonder when will a laptop graphic card have the power of a GTX 480.

 

5850 is confirm now to be gddr5, great new for M15x owners.

 

The technology and manufacturing process is making leaps and bounds so I say in 2012. There will be some strides made in between now and then but the question is how often do we want to change laptops?

 

2012 you say, i guess its time to start saving, hopefully by then i can afford it,lol. man things are moving to fast, after 6 months its already outdated.

 

Thanks inapp, i will be contacting them (frozencpu site) by emails, and hopefully get something going on with the thermal pad sheets, but the .5 sheets is arriving tomorrow, i will use it till i get the 1mm .

 

18 Months according to Moore

 

Interesting find Wattos! I hope it is in 2011!