*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

[residualvoltage]

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

When that happens I keep raising the watts and when it don't work i raise the amps and start again. Mine does what you said too.

[residualvoltage]

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.

If i could choose to have additional cache in place of the IGP i would be happy. Oh well these things are beasts.

[scook9]

That just tells me you have not used the M18x unplugged enough yet

[johnksss]

i concur. this thing is a "beast" in battery mode. blowing past allot of other notebooks/laptops & netbooks. hell..you can game using "one" gpu and still breeze past the competition.

[Speedy Gonzalez]

John to pass 80w just set the flex vid to 25 and reflash i was having the same problem

[johnksss]

it's different with oem speedy.
the oem just jumps to 90 to 99 watts with in a few seconds...highest i get is a max 0f 90W on a very very good day.and that's over time.

[Speedy Gonzalez]

yeah i guess is time to save money for a new CPU lol.

@Residualvoltage whit your settings i cant even make it to windows lol we are limited here

[johnksss]

not really. 300 vs 1000
and that is only noticed during benching. with better than normal usage. it still far exceeds those expectations. and i would rather have this over anything paid for above a 2630qm....(oem 2920xm/2960xm) excluded.

now with that being said...im upgrading any old ways...lol

side note:
2.4 vs 2.5
more watts apparently
far higher voltage. (1.5 by residualvoltage and 1.45 by scook9 and 1.46 by da_g)
we cant get past 1.351

[Speedy Gonzalez]

yeah I know the difference on price is insane

[johnksss]

46x multiplier