*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

[johnksss]

John, I think we limited with this ES cpu

we are. max watts is about 90/1.3511V. but for 300 bucks, that's pretty damn good!

Nice job Johnksss, im guessing to say your m18x is back up and running, if so congrats +rep

yep. and it's probably about to leave again..

Can you try to recreate my 32m wprime? Its 4.9ghz~ with 135amp and only 110watts set. Since its 8thread (single core may be 50watt max and dual may be 100watt range with 4core nearly 150watt peak) you should see over 100 watts. Utilize Throttle Stop Log function and post the cross-section that shows your wprime 32m run should be only a few seconds and peak into 100+ watt range. The throttle stop log I posted pic of at 151watt is a wprime 32m run with i think at 4.8Ghz with a high amps maybe 150amp set medium watts set but atleast 110-114w for sure. Speedy can you do this too? So set 4.8-4.9ghz for the test 8thread speed. I think seeing what the Throttlestop log shows may show us some clues.

this is 45x -120/120 - 130amps - 120W.
as you can see...it's no where near 120/110 or 100 watts...
best time i have pulled of in wprime 32 is 5.256.

Man, If I wasn't going out of town this weekend I'd hook you up with my dice pot. Mostly because I want to witness greatness

he doesn't need a dice pot...

[residualvoltage]

Man, If I wasn't going out of town this weekend I'd hook you up with my dice pot. Mostly because I want to witness greatness

Me too without a doubt! I want see it nearly match a liquid cooled 2600k. Bet if we had 12mb L3 cache instead of 8mb we'd see even better numbers.

[scook9]

Nothing has 12MB of L3 right now.....

[johnksss]

6 core chips do...

[residualvoltage]

we are. max watts is about 90/1.3511V. but for 300 bucks, that's pretty damn good!


yep. and it's probably about to leave again..


this is 45x -120/120 - 130amps - 120W.
as you can see...it's no where near 120/110 or 100 watts...
best time i have pulled of in wprime 32 is 5.256.




he doesn't need a dice pot...

Thanks for taking the time to do that test... I see what's going I'm sorry it seems limited... seems to not make sense though. Perhaps its how the system or bios is reading the chip? Could a bios mod trick system into thinking it was Oem stepping and id etc. ? Just a thought. Yes a dice pot isn't necessary to cream all of us with dice...

[residualvoltage]

6 core chips do...

You know what I mean. Would be one killer chip having 3mb L3 per core.

@Johnkss I see the log and only other thing I can think of is your using lowest available voltage and my 32m run @ 151watts used much higher than 0flex could the flex paired with those same amp and watt settings allow over 80watts?

Could be when at 1.3511 4.5ghz will never use over 80 watts but at 1.4v maybe a higher wattage? So what if you set 46x or 47x and use a higher flex. You dont have to test again but if you feel like entertaining the idea its a thought... I was probably 20-25flex on that run since lower would bsod since it wasn't enough voltage for those 4.8 to 4.9ghz quadcore speeds. Up until I started trying high flex, high quad core speeds, high tdp and high tdc I didn't see over 118watts in my logs. Also if you have more data checked you will see more readings in the log from your run so instead of 4-5 during the run you would see like 20 from the run and know more precisely its peak wattage. Lol don't bash me if this suggestion is no good... Just hoping to see you guys over 80 watts. Speedy needs to get in on this. Speedy pm'd me earlier and said his ES can't go over 43x but can go as high as 100watts... why are these chips handling so different from one another?

[johnksss]

i know. like the qx9300 mobile.

[residualvoltage]

i know. like the qx9300 mobile.

Yup I have no clue why they stopped making the top mobile chip with the 12mb...

[johnksss]

tried that. if you give to much flex, it will down clock the max multiplier.

[scook9]

The Core 2 chips had massive L2 per core in order to boost their performance vs the AMD chips out at the time. It worked

L3 in addition to L2 makes the need for all that space less of a concern. Additionally, there is alot more memory bandwidth than there was during the Core 2 days making cache hits less of a penalty in performance. Cache takes up the majority of the space in CPUs (IGPs excluded) and results in alot of the power and $$ cost.