*OFFICIAL* Alienware M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 4

[Mr. Fox]

Slight improvement after some minor tweaks...

[ttnuagmada]

You can set them higher....you will just bsod and not be able to confirm the effectiveness of such a change

You can definitely type a higher number in. I've seen nothing that confirms anything beyond the card not accepting it.

[DaneGRClose]

LOL, ttnuagmada if you think no card has adjustable voltages go take a look at the M15x bench thread I can tell you my 5850 didn't run those scores at stock voltage it needed more juice That message is probably just to keep people that don't know exactly what they're doing and risking from doing something stupid and trying to hold the RBE creator liable. The 6970 may not be able to change voltages but that's not due to tolerance it's due to the physical specs of the card, I think it was Joker who stated that most of the Barts cards lack the component necessary to be able to change the voltage from the factory preset and apparantly this is happening with the majority of the mobile barts cards.

[ttnuagmada]

LOL, ttnuagmada if you think no card has adjustable voltages go take a look at the M15x bench thread I can tell you my 5850 didn't run those scores at stock voltage it needed more juice That message is probably just to keep people that don't know exactly what they're doing and risking from doing something stupid and trying to hold the RBE creator liable. The 6970 may not be able to change voltages but that's not due to tolerance it's due to the physical specs of the card, I think it was Joker who stated that most of the Barts cards lack the component necessary to be able to change the voltage from the factory preset and apparantly this is happening with the majority of the mobile barts cards.

We're talking about boosting the voltages higher than the highest selectable in RBE. You raised your voltage, but it was from a pre-set selection and you cannot raise it higher than that. Any attempt to raise the voltage higher than the highest listed (which is 1.15 for both the 4xxx and 5xxx im pretty sure) and you blue screen. This is what i'm talking about. The 6970 vbios doesn't have any available at all to select. I was saying that if no one has found a way to push the 4xxx and 5xxx cards higher than 1.15v, that I doubt anything can be done for the 6970. I posted that message because it leads me to believe that this is something that is hardwired and probably not able to be modified.

Also,I know how to overclock, I posted the 2nd highest R1 vantage score on page 2.

[DR650SE]

Here is the latest of my benchmarks. Shaved 23 sec of my previous time. Be sure to check out the min temps. I kinda flubbed and the temps went up to 80*, but the CPU still sustained the 27 multi the entire time.

wPrime 1024: 203.111sec

[DaneGRClose]

We're talking about boosting the voltages higher than the highest selectable in RBE. You raised your voltage, but it was from a pre-set selection and you cannot raise it higher than that. Any attempt to raise the voltage higher than the highest listed (which is 1.15 for both the 4xxx and 5xxx im pretty sure) and you blue screen. This is what i'm talking about. The 6970 vbios doesn't have any available at all to select. I was saying that if no one has found a way to push the 4xxx and 5xxx cards higher than 1.15v, that I doubt anything can be done for the 6970. I posted that message because it leads me to believe that this is something that is hardwired and probably not able to be modified.

Also,I know how to overclock, I posted the 2nd highest R1 vantage score on page 2.

But some cards show nothing other than stock voltages in the drop down "selectable" boxes when working a vbios in RBE, the 5850 was a primary example there it only showed stock voltages but you could increase them by I believe it was .15 or .20 volts over stock just fine, you could increase them further without a bsod but the card refused to go to 3D clocks at higher than those voltages. The 6970 again has no other selectable voltages but you can manually input the voltage levels, the only problem is it bsod's before it even gets to windows. This is either something within the vbios itself or its missing something on the card to allow voltages other than factory settings. So all I was saying is your statement that it's not possible because it doesn't show in the selectable field isn't correct in all situations.

[Mr. Fox]

A few more tweak, a few more points...

Just added a +1 rep for djhuydx for the help with the Radeon BIOS editor and Rivatuner tricks.

[scook9]

But some cards show nothing other than stock voltages in the drop down "selectable" boxes when working a vbios in RBE, the 5850 was a primary example there it only showed stock voltages but you could increase them by I believe it was .15 or .20 volts over stock just fine, you could increase them further without a bsod but the card refused to go to 3D clocks at higher than those voltages. The 6970 again has no other selectable voltages but you can manually input the voltage levels, the only problem is it bsod's before it even gets to windows. This is either something within the vbios itself or its missing something on the card to allow voltages other than factory settings. So all I was saying is your statement that it's not possible because it doesn't show in the selectable field isn't correct in all situations.

Pretty sure it has to do with a disagreement between the driver and the card/vbios

[Slas111]

How i can I clock my 2nd ati 4870 without having to flash?

[dttran83]

I will post some vantages score too once I received the card from dell to see how it compare.