*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 3

[scook9]

Can't afford it and confident they wont work

And frankly, from what I have seen so far - aside from gains in Vantage, I dont really want them

[Aikimox]

Yeah, the temps are higher and the gain isn't too big, you're right.
I'd give them a try in the R2 at some point, when drivers get better.
But not now.

[Mazdaspeed_6]

well i ran crysis with no tweaks or anything. installed, then patched with 1.2. my 4870s only got 31FPS. but yea, no biggie from the 5870s.

[Seyumi]

FINAL FANTASY XIV Official Benchmark

Was trying to run the FF14 benchmark on my system I received yesterday but when I hit run it gave me some sort or error. Currently at work but I've been trying to see what the problem could be at various FF11/FF14 forums.

After asking some questions I was told to DL a file for DirectX. I was wondering if anyone would mind trying to see if DL'ing and installing this file, would fix the issue? Would do it myself but I don't get off till 10pm tonight. Here's a link to the missing file DL. Thx in advance if anyone is able to help out. I'll try myself later also, when I get home. I want to see what the game looks like.

Download details: DirectX End-User Runtime

What score did you end up getting on the high res mode? I was going to get an m17x to play this upcoming MMO but it doesn't even look like I’ll be able to run the game on the fullest settings...Did your second 5870 even spool up? I heard the benchmark uses all 4 cores but only 1 graphics card. In fact, having SLI/Crossfire enabled will actually lower the score. Can you get a score with one of your 5870's disabled? Thanks!

[oogamar]

Thought i'd add my own crysis run for reference with dual 260m's and t9600...

Getting my r2 soon so thought it'd be good to compare.

[Mandrake]

It's official that our 5870s are proprietary. They don't work in other systems like the Clevo cards do.

^^^This is not correct. I talked with Dell about it and they said there is no reason why it shouldn't work so I tried it again and poof, no issues. I have no idea why it didn't work on my first try.....sorry for the misinformation.

[SAUCE]

^^^This is not correct. I talked with Dell about it and they said there is no reason why it shouldn't work so I tried it again and poof, no issues. I have no idea why it didn't work on my first try.....sorry for the misinformation.

That's nice to hear

[Philthy84]

What score did you end up getting on the high res mode? I was going to get an m17x to play this upcoming MMO but it doesn't even look like I’ll be able to run the game on the fullest settings...Did your second 5870 even spool up? I heard the benchmark uses all 4 cores but only 1 graphics card. In fact, having SLI/Crossfire enabled will actually lower the score. Can you get a score with one of your 5870's disabled? Thanks!

I wish I could tell you, me and a couple other M17x owners haven't had any luck trying to get the benchmark program to run. Tried to find some solutions for the problem but they all failed. I gave up for now.

But I'm sure the M17x should be able to run it decently. fzhfzh was able to score a 2500 on High setting and 4117 on Low setting but this was on a Sager NP8690 w/ single 5870M. Was the closest example I could find matching my systems specs.

[Tristan]

^^^This is not correct. I talked with Dell about it and they said there is no reason why it shouldn't work so I tried it again and poof, no issues. I have no idea why it didn't work on my first try.....sorry for the misinformation.

Good to know!+1

[5150Joker]

I got Jubbings M17x today, installed his 940xm and decided to do some CPU benchmarks since I know some were curious about it. I bet it's around the same speed as the 920xm right now because of the bios. This was done with 5% OC in the bios. Also included is a pic of his CPU idle temps (and normal usage temps from running the browser/furmark etc) using a fresh coat of shin etsu paste: