**OFFICIAL** Dell XPS M1730 Owner's Lounge, *Part 4*

[Consi Pit]

Yeh I have Throttlestop now and I did some tweaks with it.Well, I'm not any expert with overclocking I'll give you the details latar.

I have Alan Wake.Also, I have 8700m GT SLI.The SLI works fine but I don't get much better performance.However SLI works much better with 8800m GTX.So you have a better chance Game is fine by the way.
Low@1024x768+2xAA(Lowest)
Min:10 Avg:20 Max:26
Medium@1024x768+4xAA
Min:7 Avg:16 Max:19
High@1024x768+4xAA(Max)
Min:2 Avg:9 Max:12
All benchmarks are done with single card as I don't like SLI at all.It gives unstable fps
Ended the game.It's smooth @low and lags at some points for few sceonds only

Ok- thanks. So a single 8800 should at least double those results, and that's enough to me. If anyone has Risen 2 I would be grateful for the information.
And I'm waiting for the info how T8300 OC cpu affects in the games

[wah47]

Yes you can overclock it another 200Mhz using Throttlestop.

Are you sure I can overclock it to 2.6Ghz? Because the multiplier seems to be locked

[wah47]

Increased the multiplier to 13x200Mhz/Reboot/Started the TS(ThrottleStop) again/Windows crashed with a blue screen "Dumping Physical Memory"/Reboot/Everything fine and started the TS again/Same Blue screen crash/Reboot/Deleted the TS/Everything fine Kinda impossible to overclock T8300 :/

[spradhan01]

Just a quick question. I have a M1730 with X9000, 88M SLI. I was having issues with charing the laptop. They tried to fix it multiple times and offered me a replacement. They offered me two laptops but both looks downgrade. What do you suggest?

XPS 17 - L702X Elemental Silver ALuminum

and the specifications are as follows:



1 K467P 150W AC Adapter

2 J6XND 64BIT Operating System

3 TG4MT 64BIT Operating System

4 8NF2G XPS L702X

5 8Y5N3 Processor: Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor (2.00 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz)

6 W795M 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)

7 PHR4J 500 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)

8 VWW4V 500 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 2nd Drive

9 7N17C 6X Blu-ray Disc Combo (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM)

10 N1P9H NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3GB graphics

11 M7F7R Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030

12 VW15X Label

13 0HTGR Documentation

14 C112J Documentation

15 8P085 Power Cord

16 V9KPP Processor Label

17 0T7XH Service Software

18 0VJFK Label

19 MX962 No OS Media

20 W3HMK Label

21 YFYT6 Bracket

22 188HP Service Software

23 DKH6P Shipping Material

24 M239M Software

25 4WYVT Software

26 XM544 Image Restore Software

27 61YKY DataSafe Online Backup Software

28 72V4G Software

29 GV0CP Wave Systems Software

30 MHKR9 17.3 inch FHD WLED TL (1920x1080) 3D

31 VR08H Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium

32 9W7H9 Elemental Silver ALuminum

33 N96VP Microsoft Office Starter

34 243Y0 9 Cell Primary Battery

35 H8XK3 Internal Backlit Keyboard – English

M17X R2

1 K467P 150W AC Adapter

2 JY579 AlienFX Color, Quasar Blue

3 7X54D 5.1 Channel Audio

4 WR9G4 Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Operating System DVD

5 J0CKX Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Operating System DVD

6 CD91C Alienware M17x R2 Laptop

7 P9YV4 Processor Intel Core i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache)

8 G040H 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)

9 KJ02T 320 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)

10 KJ02T 320 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)

11 02TT0 6X Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo (Reads BD and Writes to DVD/CD)

12 NRTT8 1 GB ATI Radeon HD 5870

13 MVF7Y Dell Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card

14 P811N Information

15 NT799 AUTO-UPDATES,ON

16 64G2H Information

17 C112J Documentation

18 6FY1X Accessory Kit

19 GFWWN Shipping Material

20 8P085 Power Cord

21 6WPVF Information

22 CTX0X Information

23 C465T Hard Drive Bracket

24 5FJ8M Processor Label

25 D0W4H Command Center

26 6RDR6 Service Software

27 XM544 Image Restore Software

28 D9KVP Operating System DVD

29 7J4CK 17 inch UltraSharp WXGA+ (1440x900) LCD Display

30 8VWCN Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate

31 DNF92 Space Black

32 V3C5M Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module

33 T780J 9 Cell Primary Battery

[unclewebb]

If your CPU is crashing when you are using the 13 multiplier it is probably because you don't have the voltage set high enough. Start with the maximum voltage before clicking on the Turn On button. Delete the ThrottleStop.ini file if you have accidentally saved some unstable values before starting ThrottleStop.

[hikkoo]

thanks heaps Uncle an for help break 18k on me Beast

@spradhan01
you had sli > so both single gpu options considered downgrades, if me would tell them not happy with both options and try negotiate firmly say for CrossfireX 5870 and 1920x1200 display on a M17X and a better cpu

Really need to be compensated for all the troubles ya had with m1730 so deserve better. keep try nego for a better option

also if had 7200rpm HD on M1730 then 7200rpm on M17X instead of 5400
GoodLuck,

Are you sure I can overclock it to 2.6Ghz? Because the multiplier seems to be locked

yes can be done , so did disable Intel Speedstep in dells bios for Core 2 DUO ? here Uncles instructions for extra 200mhz how-enable-intel-dynamic-acceleration-ida-both-cores-core-2-duo

[wah47]

@spradhan01
M17xR2 is good but there should be a better CPU.Also, you should ask for a 1080p or 1200p LCD.Other than that a single HD 5870 is good enough to beat 9800M GTX SLI

@unclewebb
Thanks for quick answer.Wasn't expecting you here in no time .Now everything is fine.I have Throttlestop 4.0.I changed the multiplier to 13 and disabled SLMF and saw that the processor was running with running with unstable multiplier between 12 to 12.54.It was changing all the time in TS/Reboot/Opened CPU-Z the multiplier was 12.5 for some seconds and then 13 and then again 12.5/opened TS/the multiplier was 12-12.54 changing continuously/Started the TS Bench/Selected 2 threads and 32M/Bench started and now the multiplier was constant 12/Bench stopped/The multiplier is again between 12-12.54 changing continously :O?? Well, I'll try to do some more tests.Actually never overclocked CPU

hikkoo
Actually, it's locked

[spradhan01]

I got pm insisting to ask for dual gpus. Also, Dell keeps on talking nonsense that I have 8800M GTX SLI with 1 GB and 555M is 3GB so it is 3X faster than 88M SLI. Also they say that 740QM is quadcore and my X9000 is dual core.

[wah47]

Overclocked
Volts: 1.375 Multiplier: 13x199
It's fine yet.Thanks for help

[wah47]

I got pm insisting to ask for dual gpus. Also, Dell keeps on talking nonsense that I have 8800M GTX SLI with 1 GB and 555M is 3GB so it is 3X faster than 88M SLI. Also they say that 740QM is quadcore and my X9000 is dual core.

Actually, the video memory doesn't represent the power of the graphic card.There are many other factors.A single HD 5870 can beat 8800m/9800m GTX SLI.However, GT 555M can't do so in every game.As for CPU the 740QM is low-end CPU with lower frequency.