*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Benchmark Thread Part 2

Here's my latest 3dmark06 run, hit 13k.

Looks as though my GPU doesn't want to clock much past 765/1530, my driver crashes during runs at higher clocks.

As for the score I'll keep trying to top jaffas 13751 but I think my CPU might be holding me back a bit. My GPU temps are still solid, never topping 65°C.

Maybe I'll pick up that 920xm I've got my eye on off ebay...

@Sgt I've just updated to the same driver you're using. Care to provide me with a screeny of your Afterbuner/EVGA settings so I can cross check them with mine? Perhaps you've just got a beasty card, mine doesn't OC quite as much I'd like. Still I can't really fault this card for gaming, doe's the job and then some!

 

3dmark06 is more a cpu bias bench, so the cpu has alot to do with the overall score. but thats a really awesome score with the i5.

 

That's not common for that SSD, which is a firebreather. Both of the random 4K writes are very low, but the sequential writes are low too. They would be fine for a lesser quality drive, but not a C300. Unfortunately, my SSD's are all Intel, so I can't suggest a cure for the moment, but can confirm that there is a problem. I also use the JJB tweaks, which targets primarily the 4K reads and writes, but they don't seem to be working with your setup.

For comparison, here's one of my X25-M benchmarks after the JJB tweaks. Your C300 should blow these numbers away.

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Yeah made a mistake, write caching was disabled.

 

There you go! Congrats. Can't believe write caching would make that great a difference. Wow.

 

2151 3dmark11 score.
I7-720qm, hd 5850 @ 800/1000 CCC 11.2



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Wow.. I dont know if stealth was making a difference but I was freaking out last night when I played BFBC2 and performance just didn't feel right.

So... I completely cleaned drivers, registry and re-installed 10.10e. Ran 3dmark11 again and viola. Much higher score. So the above score is BLEH!



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Great job, StevenX. Now you're cooking. May as well get P2,500 while you're on a roll.

 

Thanks Rev. I usually only benchmark my gaming settings. Im not one to push as I as it will go. I still wish ABO would fix the PLL for setFSB though for our ICS motherboards. I would love to hit 150 or high fsb and see what the performance would be like.

 

When I play Assassin's Creed 1, the temperature of my GPU (not OCed) was around 75c. Is it a good temp? Do you know any good guide for OC GTX 460M?

 

Flame113, first welcome to the forum. This isn't really the place to ask about temps or gaming unless it's directly related to benchmarking. Your temps seem just a bit high for a non overclocked 460m based on the temps we've seen so far. Even running decent overclocks the 460m in both the M15x and M17xR3 seem to stick to the 60's. You may want to consider reapplying the thermal paste and pads if you're comfortable with doing it, if you're not call and tell Dell that your temps are higher than what they should be. Do not mention overclocking at all, just ask if you could have a technician come out to reapply the paste for you to ensure stable low temps. GL and unless it's benchmarking specific post in another portion of the M15x thread from now on If you have a question as to where to post just shoot someone a PM, there's lots of people on here to help.

 

Guys, I've just benching my M15X, got a dell 5870 in it. However I cant clock higher than 750/1050. I've seen others getting their cards as high as 1000/1200 and in comparison 750/1050 seems very low. I'm running 3D Vantage but as soon as it gets to the first test the screen just goes red and it doesn't go further. Just wondering if anyone knows why

 

EDIT; managed to run at 900/1000, it seems its the memory clock which wont go very high

 

You can prolly go 1100 on the memory or a little bit higher. I could never get 1200 in mine, max stable enough to bench was 1150.

 

Ok, changed voltage to 1.15v been benching for a while and looks like it wont go much further, that's not to say I'm giving up though. Here's by personal best.

Result

 

Ok, I'm done, the card just won't go past 970/1000. This is the best I managed.

 

Nice benchmark! Congrats on joining the 10k GPU club! Would jump on that but I am bound to nvidia.

 

Thanks, I was hoping to get closer to the 10,500 record but I'm happy with that. I believe I come in 5th with that, just below mandrake

 

Nice run Andre I'll try to get the scores updated this week. Anybody that's broken that 10k mark, and especially the 10.2k mark can tell you that a few hundred points doesn't seem like much but it's a lot to gain.

 

wow nice going andre. really awesome score.

 

Any room for nvidia love?



Seems that a stable overclock is better than a high overclock as this 800/1500 run was better than my 825/1450 one. Peace

 

Thanks guys, was hoping to get closer to the 10,500 mark but the card just won't OC any more. Hopefully my new R3 can be higher up the list when everyone starts benching theirs.

 

wow impressive oc with the 460 widezu. nice score congrats

 

Hi, can anyone help me how to disable Physx?

In NVIDIA Control Panel/ Set PhysX configuration I can only see Auto-select/GPU/CPU. There is no option to disable it.

If I disable it, how it will affect benchmark score?

I ran 3DMark Vantage last night and got 7886 GPU, 29k CPU. That's weird because I see many ppl here with i7 940XM just got around 21-23k CPU point

 

Hi Flame, you need to set CPU as the auto-select option. This will disable Physx. You can confirm this by opening up a GPU-Z console and checking the Physx box is un-ticked.

 

Or alternatively, in the 3dmark options just disable ppu.

 

Good news, installed the new 10.4 preview drivers and voila...

 

Nice run Andre, still a long way to the top

 

Slowly does it...

 

Don't forget the GPU-Z and CPU-Z screenshots for Dane.

 

Dane, new high score for 3dMark11 - P3055. (5850m @ 915/1100 with 820QM)

Result

 

Not breaking any records here but not bad for an I7-720 and a 5850. Again this is at my Gamer Level which is 800/1000. Driver CCC 11.4 Thanks



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Here's screenshot Dane... I think this is the max its going to go to.

 

@Rev - is your 820 cpu overclocked as well? I noticed that this go around a little extra FSB did very little for the score.

 

No, the 820 is strictly stock. I could never get more than about 137 with SetFSB. It was never completely stable and showed very little performance boost, so I abandoned it and stayed stock.

 

Rev how are you even doing this. I've run my system with 820QM/5870M at 970/1000 on 3DMark11 and can't seem to get above 2700.

 

any room for my M15x-2r3, hahahah

i manage to flash my 6970 to 800_1000


hahaha sorry its an r3

 

Impressive...although I'm finding it hard to decode what machine you actually have. Is it a M17x R3?

 

yeah sorry about that, its an r3. the 6970 is super impressive and temps have been great so far.

 

That looks better. What are stock clocks for the 6970? Does Overdrive work?

 

Stock is 780/900 and no overdrive. Haven't found anything yet that can oc it. Only flashing works atm. Also got the modded 11.4 to install to.

 

Looks like you got a nice laptop there. How does it compare to the M15x in terms of size? I'm interested in the thickness and overall width comparison.

 

Have you tried afterburner?

 

@inap: what are your temps?

 

size wise its like 1" longer then the M15x. bareley fits into my old swissgear pegasus backpack. mandrake has a few comparison pics of it in his thread.

haven't tried after burner yet, will do so later, but so far nothing has worked.

i get around 80c on furmark for 10 mins.

during my bench it got around 75c max. but i did repaste and repadded.

 

Sounds like a great card and a solid system so far...!!

OC support will come in the near future I guess, the card is still pretty new.

 

yeah, i like the system but build quality is suffering, the power button strip is already lifting off on me . oh well should be an easy fix.

 

I was never really into benching, but now that I put a 5850 in my system I just wanted to give it a try... hope I've done it correctly, I'm a benching noob, lol

Result: 10690

I can't get the clock over 805 without the driver crashing during the benching...well, doesn't really matter, I don't feel the need to flash a different voltage only for benching (at least not yet maybe I become addicted, lol)

Maybe I can push the CPU score a little more, hehe.

 

Very impressive with a stock 5850. You have that 920xm cranking nicely. Try something gentle like 750/1050 or 800/1075 on the 5850. Should give you a nice little kick. O/c'ing the GPU will give you a greater increase from here than going any further with the 920xm, except that your GPU score is very high for a 5850 at 625/1000.

 

No, sorry, I guess I didn't describe it well enough... it wasn't stock, only stock voltages, like I said, I can't seem to get the core clock over 805 without crashing the driver.

The GPU clocks on this run were 805/1200.