*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

[johnksss]

[DR650SE]

Nice benches john, I'd definately like to see that AM3 run. Bet it was flying! Also you need to get your CPU cold. You should be able to beat my 920XM score (wPrime1024=192sec) with that chip. over at T|I a guy ran a 186sec. Cool it down!

[daveh98]

So how are the 6990s OC'ing? What clocks are you guys pushing with stock or not stock methods? Seems like the 6970's are pushing good and stable clocks around 830/1130 with no problem and is way more power than I need for any game ATM. Was going to upgrade but might wait to see the 28nm 7 series before upgrading. Any GPU score fo 24,500 in Vantage makes me think I should sit back count my blessings and realize I am gaming high level games on my freaking couch on a laptop...Crazy eh.

[bumbo2]

So how are the 6990s OC'ing? What clocks are you guys pushing with stock or not stock methods? Seems like the 6970's are pushing good and stable clocks around 830/1130 with no problem and is way more power than I need for any game ATM. Was going to upgrade but might wait to see the 28nm 7 series before upgrading. Any GPU score fo 24,500 in Vantage makes me think I should sit back count my blessings and realize I am gaming high level games on my freaking couch on a laptop...Crazy eh.

Yep man! That is crazy, I was playing metro 2033 and I was getting 60-70+ fps maxed out, that is really crazy eh.lol

[scook9]

John what measures are you currently taking to cool your stuff? Dice? SS? Just an AC?

I have some fair sized heatsinks attacked on top of the GPUs and CPU with a thermal pad providing some heat transmission and 6 GT AP-15's blowing into the open laptop. I just cant compete with those higher clocks So far my limit has been 850 core

Wanted to hold off on the Watercooling as I am not sure how effective it would be at the moment and it will not be simple to do not that I have all the parts and have looked at it some more.

[Shaden]

So how are the 6990s OC'ing? What clocks are you guys pushing with stock or not stock methods? Seems like the 6970's are pushing good and stable clocks around 830/1130 with no problem and is way more power than I need for any game ATM. Was going to upgrade but might wait to see the 28nm 7 series before upgrading. Any GPU score fo 24,500 in Vantage makes me think I should sit back count my blessings and realize I am gaming high level games on my freaking couch on a laptop...Crazy eh.

Hey Dave, seems people are getting pretty high clocks with the 6990s, but I don't know if its worth it to upgrade. My 6970s were crap and I got an RMA so I took the free upgrade.

Clocks are running anywhere from about where you are 820/1100 to 850/1150 ... and some of us who are really pushing (john myself, others) are hitting 870/1170 and even a bit higher in benches. I can run stable without additional cooling at 860/1150 for gaming, or at least thats what I have been doing, haven't seen the need to try higher clocks for gaming.

[becks7]

So how are the 6990m's looking in bad company 2 (max settings), any benchmarks yet? are these ready for some bf3 action

[johnksss]

Nice benches john, I'd definately like to see that AM3 run. Bet it was flying! Also you need to get your CPU cold. You should be able to beat my 920XM score (wPrime1024=192sec) with that chip. over at T|I a guy ran a 186sec. Cool it down!

that was on dice, but the whole time i couldn't get past 80 watts.

John what measures are you currently taking to cool your stuff? Dice? SS? Just an AC?

I have some fair sized heatsinks attacked on top of the GPUs and CPU with a thermal pad providing some heat transmission and 6 GT AP-15's blowing into the open laptop. I just cant compete with those higher clocks So far my limit has been 850 core

Wanted to hold off on the Watercooling as I am not sure how effective it would be at the moment and it will not be simple to do not that I have all the parts and have looked at it some more.

this time i was using dice. you can try that...it's much easier than a water loop and it's a lot easier the way i was doing it.

[scook9]

I assume you are using dice pots and not just putting it on the cards haha like DR did.....

How much does DICE cost? And where to buy.....

So I am assuming those clocks are going to be hard to get without sub ambient cooling?

Also, HWInfo for fan control is a no no right? Causes instability?

[daveh98]

Hey Dave, seems people are getting pretty high clocks with the 6990s, but I don't know if its worth it to upgrade. My 6970s were crap and I got an RMA so I took the free upgrade.

Clocks are running anywhere from about where you are 820/1100 to 850/1150 ... and some of us who are really pushing (john myself, others) are hitting 870/1170 and even a bit higher in benches. I can run stable without additional cooling at 860/1150 for gaming, or at least thats what I have been doing, haven't seen the need to try higher clocks for gaming.

Wow those 6990s are definitely beasts. AMD really has given some good cards with good OC'ing. Fortunately, even in stock form, the cooling on the m18x is tops. I was hearing that the R2 (my old system) was showing better temps but I don't get it just looking at the cooling design of this. It seems to be better suited and the vents seem even more proper. What is your stock GPU score with the CF 6990 in Vantage? I can't run 3dmark so I want to see about how far off the 6970s are in stock form.