M15x + ATI 5870 (MOD)

Less talking smack more numbers!

 

here is the deal...i am for right now done with alienware ...too many issues...this asus is alot of fun...i am enjoying the hell out of it...and my scores are climbing...if the x7200 is really awesome i may concider it..but i may just wait for the newer asus come out and get that....what bout u?

 

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Looks to me like you are still 800 points behind Mandrake

 

How much was the AC unit? I may be in the market this summer

 

Im just sitting back and watching for now...

I did enjoy the G73 in the time i had it though ...

If Alienware releases a new machine that does not sound like a leaf blower nor throttles all to heck, Stutters etc etc then i may take a look again at a laptop...

For now im just chilling on my desktop ...

 

on sale i complained about poor customer service...i got it for 350 bucks...lol...i am buying another one tomorrow to put it on the other side to destroy....mandrake...although my power supply sucks..i need a better one i ordered it tonight...sigh....and i took the bottom of the laptop off also..still more power more power,,,,,but overall this laptop ..is bad ...

 

why did you get rid of the g73?

 

So your going to catch Pneumonia all just to try and beat Drakes score huh ? .... You are dedicated my friend lol...

 

Was not a fan of the GPU temps with stock cooling...

Then i got the Clevo W870CU and had a good time with that but sold it recently for a good amount of $$$ so i took the money ...

 

lol...i was talking to drake on the phone while i was benching ..i was so freckin cold ...it was funny...but i am getting another one tomorrow to blow from the other side...perfect....lol...my wife is going to divorce me after this one...hahahhahahha

 

She may not have to divorce you after you get a second Air Conditioner but make sure you have a good will written up so she can afford to thaw you out when they find you frozen to death ....

 

lol....your killen me...lol.....

its weird you had bad stock gpu temp..thats one thing maybe its the ic diamond but i can game left for dead 2 or crysis or bad company 2 and it never gets hott ever.....

what were your temps..if you remember?

 

They were the norm of the high 80s low 90s and that was even after i repasted it etc....

The machine is not the friendliest to take apart if your not happy with your temps/results after a paste job and i love to tinker with my machines if i am not happy...

Either way though i loved alot of things about that machine other then temps and if they release a new one with a 480m i may look at again ...

I wont be the first person to have one like last time though lol... I will wait and see others results etc..

 

Arent you forgetting my score?

 

To be fair the DPC was shared by Clevo too since it was an nVidia problem and not Alienware. Throttling well yeah, unfortunately that's a reality for the M15x (only when coupled with a 260M) and I hear the R1. The R2 is near perfect, if it had a TDP unlocker for the CPU it would meet all my expectations.

 

No on is forgetting but you need to get back to it and beat my Asus score.

BTW, what kind of cooling did you do when you hit that 17K score?

That's would force you to get back to benching.

 

hey joker... did you increase the voltage for those clocks on the ati card i maxed out at 950/1140.. Is the dell bios better as compared to clevo.... Can i flash Clevo Ati 5870 bios with dells bios...

How is 940xm compared 920xm....

 

I flipped the M15x upside down, removed the cover and used a regular fan (like this one, only a lot crappier and cheaper) to blow onto the pc. That gave me some very neat cooling. Also I benched on an external monitor as the pc was upside down.

Later on I tried using an Airconditioner and holding the M15x in my hands, but I still couldnt beat that score

 

It definitely would!

Right now exactly the same. Dell needs to issue a bios update before I can unleash the 940xm's true power.

 

Can't find them for any less than $350 at RJTech.
Any other places to buy them tried the Ebay thing and nothing.

 

I have a M15x coming tomorrow with a 5850 and im just going to flash it to 5870 speeds and be done with it ... I had toyed with the idea of the 5870 but in the end its not worth the hassle for the 75mhz and since i wont be benching it all day long the stock 5870 speeds will be fine... Might take it a notch above stock 5870 even and leave it there but at the end of the day its cheaper and essentially the same card unless your going for a record of some sort lol...

1080p 5850 i7 820 4gb RAM 500gig hd .. Might snag one one of those Seagate momentus thingys for it just for better boot times and remove the DVD drive while i am at it so i can have more space... Optical drives are just useless for the most part nowadays ...

 

Yup!
That was my 2nd choice and just spending the extra $150 and getting it from DELL.
The Hybrid Momentus looks like it's the best of both worlds haven't seen too many tests on it but from the little I've seen it's a very good, almost twice as fast as a reg HDD but not much more expensive.
You think the 1080p screen is worth it if your not planning on playing BluRay discs on it?
Not interested in smashing benchmark records but just using it as my main gaming rig so I'm thinking of going with the lower res screen just to get a slight boost in performance.
Thing is I'm not sure if the gain is going to be worth it and just go with the full 1080p res.
Know if the lower res screen is as good as the higher res screen, quality wise?

 

Personally i would get the lower res screen myself.. I got this machine from a friend for a good deal but i would have preffered the lower res screen for performance reasons...

I wanted a 1600x900 screen for my Clevo when i had it so that should tell you something right there but couldnt find anything worth investing in...

The 1600x900 screen looked very nice to me at Microcenter when i saw it though i dont know which is brighter and better etc...

The momentus does look pretty decent especially for the price and i dont feel like investing into another SSD considering the best thing about SSDs for me is quicker boot times ...

 

Maybe you would like my ssd?

link in sig

 

I had considered yanking out the 256gb patriot in my desktop to dump into the laptop but i know ill miss it to much there and i really dont want to blow that kind of cash on a drive .. I hear the M15x has horrible boot times though so i know ill be going insane lol...

You have a nice drive there though ...

 

open to offers

 

$5? $10 if you have the latest firmware on it....

 

So Mandrake have you done any benchmarks wth your CPU oc'd yet?
It would be cool to see how close to your G73 scores you get

 

Just 3DMark06

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/474717-m15x-ati-5870-mod-142.html#post6347632

I haven't done Vantage yet but I do plan on beating my G73 score.

 

Simply amazing!
That's all I have to say, amazing

 

Can somebody tell me, why i can't installing the ATI driver on the normal way by starting the setup? I always have to install the driver over the device manager

 

The ATI installers for the mobile cards have left ALOT to be desired....this has been the case for all of the highend cards from what I have heard so far

 

Anyone know where did Joker got his i7 940xm from? I'm interested of getting one.

 

ebay.......

 

Genuine OEM's are not out yet but some are getting pre release QS ones on the below link...

New Intel Mobile Core? i7-940XM Extreme 8M Turbo 3.3GHz - eBay (item 120575428643 end time Jun-26-10 06:39:13 PDT)

 

koo, I belive it work with my alienware M15x right? I have the A06 bio. Thank!!

 

Probably but until there is a bios update it will more than likely be set with a multi of 24 just like the 920.

 

he oido que las muestras de pruebas de estos procesadores tienen problemas de recalentamiento, asi que no son muy recomendables

 

Lol, dunno if this had been posted here, but these guys couldn't keep the temps under 100C in Furmark.

 

hahahhaha thanks aikimox, that was funny. i think its because he caked on the paste and no padding. also funny how he broke the grill.

 

English please here, and they can be kept cool just fine....just like the 920xm is

The only reason to not recommend someone buy a 940xm for the M15x would be the lack of BIOS support making it a 920xm in all practicality until a new BIOS is released to support it

 

I thought the A06 bios support the 940xm.

 

It does run, but people are.reporting that it runs at 920 speeds.

 

So I Inap you think I should upgrade to the 940xm or just the 920xm? The 920xm is $460 and 940xm is $748 and if the 940xm is going to be support it later in the future with a bio update I rather get that.

 

Yeah the 940 should work out sooner or later. But 940 is maybe 10% better than 920. But I would perfect oem models, but will be expensive.

 

Not even 10%....like 5%

not at all worth it unless you are a hardcore bencher

 

Yea the oem is really expensive so i'm not even considering that. This QS version work the same right? I can overclock it like the oem version?

 

Even benchmarking there wouldn't be a difference because the systems still limit the 920s. Look at what the G73 can do with the 920.