*OFFICIAL* Alienware M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 4

[TurbodTalon]

Off topic, but I've been playing Shift 2, and it has some very nasty flickering when CrossFire is forced through RadeonPro. A single 6970M is looking more and more appealing every day.

[DR650SE]

I finally accomplished a goal of mine. Ran Vantage at 1GHz on the GPU Core. Ran with the clocks of 1000MHz on the core, 1300MHz on the memory. Broke 21K GPU score and set a new high score for myself.

I also ran wPrime1024M in sub 200sec. Which was another goal. Also set a record for wPrime 32M. Yesterday was a good day benching.



Vantage: P 21390
GPU: 21058
CPU: 22453


wPrime32M: 6.235sec @ 4039.5MHz


wPrime 1024M: 197.997sec @ 3895.7MHz



Cooling on Dry Ice. I tried out a makeshift DICE pot, but the cooling wasn't as efficient as this method, and since dry ice doesn't turn to a liquid, I had no issues, other then burns to the fingers I'd still like to get an effective dice pot, that would make things much easier.

[scook9]

LOL at your cooling "solution" haha

How long do those blocks last? Also where did you get them and at what cost?

You just owned my chest freezer on temps haha

[The Revelator]

Wow. That's all there is to be said about that. Congratulations. Awesome scores. Probably cause a run on dry ice. I'll be surprised if Inap doesn't lay in a supply by close of business.

[DR650SE]

Haha, yea its very very crude, but it's effective. The blocks you see there last maybe 15 min, it depends, the smaller they get, the faster they sublimate.

I get the dry ice from an ice cream shop in town. They sell it so peple can transport thier tasty treats. It's $1.75/lb and yesterday I went through 8lbs, and the day before about 5 lbs. That lasted me through several hours of benching. I need to get some 3DMark11 runs done, but i lock up while 3/4 the way through loading the "combined" test. I'm actually headed to get some Chipotle and another 8lbs of dry ice, to do some 3DMark11 runs while I pack

[djhuydx]

that's just awesome, cooling stuff with ice is nice man, congrats

[scook9]

Be sure to get those scores up on the bot as well as a picture! lol

I wonder if it would last much longer IN the chest freezer.....hmmmmmm

[DR650SE]

Haha will do. Probably a gold cup for the most crude and irresponsible dice cooling lol. You should call around see if an ice cream shop near you sells. The pack your chest freezer with it and hit that 15k!

[katalin_2003]

LOL at your cooling "solution" haha

How long do those blocks last? Also where did you get them and at what cost?

You just owned my chest freezer on temps haha

had an idea of trying dry ice but here you can get minimum 10x 1kg slate=60euros
Congrats DR

[scook9]

I think my problems were everything but cooling

I cant get more voltage into the CPU and the memory bandwidth still nosedives when I use TS

The GPUs may get a tad higher than they were for my current scores but still voltage limited on them as well

Still looking at moving to the DC area?