DR650SE

Nice system and nice guide! The Inspiron 1720 was a system I bought in mid 07. Used it until I got my R2, and then gave it to my bro. Still a good system. T9600 2.6GHz CPU, 256GB SSD, 500GB HDD, 4GB DDR2 RAM, and an Nvidia 8600M GT. I put a black keyboard on it, thought it made it look kinda slick. Also has red arabic keyboard stickers on it from when I was taking Arabic 1-4 in school and learning some Arabic on my own. Learning to type in another language is a PITA. It was good for gaming back in the day. Still a strong system and great for a student, which is why I gave to him. I kinda miss that system Made it though two trips to Iraq and still going strong, never had an issue with it.

I'm sure I need to mess with my CCC settings, but havn't found it in there. Also I just got some new cards from Dell since I bricked one of my old cards. Well these are quite the cards. Also a little cooling goes a long way. I'm going to attempt a 1000MHz Core run when I get some more time available. Also need to do some 3DMark11 runs too. Just when you thought the bar couldn't get any higher...My latest bench Vantage: P21012 GPU: 20565 CPU: 22477

Right now I'm using 11.4 drivers

@stamatisx I noticed in your benches that OpenCL is unchecked. When I open GPU-Z mine is checked, how do you go about disabling that? I havn't been able to figure it out.

Well the only thing that makes it BSOD is wPrime at 80W+ TDP. So for everyday use, I still keep it at 90W with no issues, so not dead by any means. havn't really tested out the OEM 920XM, but the 940 runs fine stock voltage, 5% OC, 90W TDP. I can run a 50% load on wPrime1024/4 threads and thats fine, so for anything but benchmarking, it should be plenty fine. I might see if it BSOD while gaming. If it does, I still have a really solid 920XM ES I wasted way too much money

Hmm, never ran that one, may have to give it a shot, I'm thinking I might need to just get a dice pot. That could make things interesting, than the increased voltage could work in my favor....

yea it is. Well not killed completely thankfully, just past their prime , Still using the 940XM since it has the default 25x, and my system boots on average 11.5sec with 78-80 processes running at boot. 100% load will BSOD if the TDP is over 80ish, but I still run it at 90TDP since the CPU will never really see a 100% load on it.

Hmm the more I read, and look at my BSOD codes, it's starting to look like as bad core. Stupid benching I think it runs fine at stock voltage up to about 80W, anything higher, and it BSOD. Thinking I may have a bad thread. That would be two XMs I have killed, wow, i'm on an expensive roll. At least the work at stock right? Though I don't think I'd feel right ebaying them I can stll run a wPrime1024 at 100W on 4 threads so I guess as far as real world goes, the CPU is plenty stable.

Hmm. Just think its odd since Im sure my cpus didn't do that at stock settings. Maybe when i benched I used less wattage but I don't think that's it. Well ill try it with both my 920xm when i get a new mobo. May be a while since Dell called and said parts are on back order.

So with all the brain power on the forum, anyone think it would bw possible to add additional voltage options to the R2? I know Thewizwould be the one to talk about it, but thought someone out there would have some input. Now i KNOW this wouldn't benefit the xm cpus as they produce enough heat, but it would benefit the non xm cpus. I know with the 150mv increase, I could run a 540m at a stable 30% overclock. FSB @ 175mhz. So I think additional voltage could help close the gap between xm and non xm. Or at least make the non xm cpus more find to toy with. Even an extra 150 mv would be nice.

Ok, I tried repasting, and for the retention mod, I just adjust the screws, all of them so the heatsink is flush. No real changes to the actual heatsink, just adjustments on the pressure for the screws. Havn't had to readjust it unless I swap the CPU, which i've done a few times.

Thanks, I worked on them for quite a bit today. I had CPU-Z to 4.378MHz, but didn't get it in time. Ok, because I've run similiar times with the 920XM ES I have and 940XM ES, but I'm wondering if I damaged something. I know my OEM 920XM doesn't overclock well. I'l be getting two new GPU's and a motherboard soon, so I hope that solves the issues. I've run some 130W+ wPrime runs, so I think the mobo may have had enough. Hoping thats it. I'm going to have to get a wall/wattage meter soon too. I'll do it once I get in my new apartment. So the CPU won't degrade? I thought I may have degraded it as they don't seem as strong anymore. Still hoping the mobo is just slightly damaged.

Hmm, I seriously hope that is the case because I have an OEM 920XM, and a 940XM doing the same thing. I was able to put up these numbers today. My mother board is being replaced soon, so I hope that solves it. Was yours giving you the same error as mine? I really hope it's the motherboad that went and not the chips. After frying it how was yours acting ahmadmud? i7 940XM (ES) @ 4359.06MHz CPU-Z Validator 3.1 i7 940XM (ES) wPrime32 6.457 sec I had CPU-Z @ 4378.??MHz, but missed validating it and the FSB speed dropped so I caught it at the next best thing

StamatisX, are you able to run wPrime 1024 on your system at a full 25X? Lately I've been running it and at stock voltage I get a BSOD. All it says is system malfunction, system halted, contact hardware vendor. If I run at a higher voltage I'm generating too much heat. I can run it at a lower TDP, but not high enough to run 25X on all four cores, at 140MHz FSB. Wondering if maybe I killed my 940XM benching today.

I got a good idea to flash one with a 5850 vbios for benching purposes. Then I force flashed it back to 5870. All was well. Then I decided to take the 5870 vbios, and go in through the hex editor, change the device id to that of the 5850 (to A1 68) from (A0 68), and it bricked my card. So dell should be out when I find some time to swap out the motherboard and the GPUs. Got a packed week so I'm not sure when I can swing it. StamatisX, Those clocks are impressive. When I was in Iraq I was able to pull them off. Now back here, I can't seem to be able to. I am constantly hitting the PSU limit.

20K Nice! Maes me wish I had two GPU's Nicely done sir.

Wow so 11.4 is that much better? 11.2 was a great jump in pts. As soon as I get a dell tech out to replace my bricked card, and replace my mobo, I'm going to have to give them a go. Are you using any sort of external cooling? I havn't been just because I havnt really had access or the desire. Nice score. M17x R3 take that!! Also is there a way to post a larger pic or higher res?? I can't make out the fine details.

11.4 is out already? I'm still on Dell stock on my everday RAID 0 setup, and on 11.2 on my benching drive. I wish I could slow down time too man.

As far as benches, here is what I have. A lot of them are going to need to be rerun as they can still be pushed further. Most we rerun with out any retention mods, so I'll be rerunning them now that the mods are done. If I ever manage to find time. I think my favorite benchmark of all of them is the PCMark Vantage benchmark as it is a system assesment of the entire notebook, and simulates a lot of real work senarios. I also need to run 3DMark11 when I get some time. Moving in to a new apartment in a month, and got a two bedroom, so I can have a computer room DR650SE's Alienware M17x R2 Benchmarks. GPU Benchmarks 5870M Dual GPU 3DMark Vantage: P19838 Marks 3DMark06: 23720 Marks 3DMark05: 31672 Marks 3DMark03: 80002 Marks 3DMark2001 SE: 50975 Marks Unigine Heaven DX9: 1459.12 Marks Unigine Heaven DX11: 927 Marks AquaMark: 168065 Marks ---- 5870M Single GPU 3DMark Vantage: P11163 Marks 3DMark06: 18040 Marks 3DMark05: 27381 Marks 3DMark03: 50893 Marks 3DMark2001 SE: 52426 Marks Unigine Heaven DX9: 1295.37 Marks Unigine Heaven DX11: 466.95 Marks AquaMark: 191609 Marks ---- CPU Benchmarks i7 940XM: CPU-Z: 4261.03MHz Pifast: 21.72sec SuperPi 1M: 10.311sec SuperPi 32M: 9Min 47.669sec wPrime1024: 4Min 59.305sec wPrime32: 6.958sec i7 920XM CPU-Z: 4248.15MHz Pifast: 21.33sec SuperPi 1M: 10.223sec SuperPi 32M: 9Min 40.636sec wPrime1024: 3Min 44.858sec wPrime32: 6.599sec i7 Q720M CPU-Z: 3406.38MHz Pifast: 26.16sec SuperPi 1M: 12.449sec SuperPi 32M: 11Min 17.821sec wPrime1024: 6Min 39.918sec wPrime32: 12.870sec i5 540M CPU-Z: 4102.03MHz Pifast: 23.03sec SuperPi 1M: 11.404sec SuperPi 32M: 10Min 36.138sec wPrime1024: 7Min 3.307sec wPrime32: 13.221sec i5 520M CPU-Z: 3850.45MHz Pifast: 24.98sec SuperPi 1M: 12.448sec SuperPi 32M: 11Min 26.697sec wPrime1024: 8Min 18.406sec wPrime32: 15.691sec --- Referance Clock Benchmark for M17x R2 178.35MHz on FSB of i5 540M Full System Benches PCMark04: 11364 Marks PCMark05: 18577 Marks PC Mark Vantage: 18181 Marks

I actually took a desktop heatsink, cliped a small copper shim from it, and tried what Mike is discribing, and didn't see any improvement temp wise. Though maybe somone else could have differant results, I'd be willing to give it another shot.

Will definately be doing that. I've been doing a lot of benchmarking the last few days, just can't seem to get my GPU clocks anywhere near StamatisX 960MHz on the core. Although I'm doing it without any cooling at all which may be part of it. Been benching a lot to reclaim some of my gold cups on HWBot.org. Also trying to beat Mazdas 19754 in Vantage, closest I've come was 19751, which is frustratingly close! Lol, I'll beat it. Just gotta get the right combo, and I've narrowed it down quite a bit. Which is why I needed riva tuner, flashing for 1 or 2 MHz is more trouble than it's worth.

Thanks TMI and Brian, I realized what I did wrong. I missed one of the "EnableUlps" Thanks! +1

Yea, the OC menu in Rivatuner isn't coming up. I might try uninstalling Rivatuner and starting over. Now is it just the dword values I'm changing? Or everything that comes up through the "EnableUlps" search? Could it be the differant drivers I'm using?

I need a little help. Followed the instructions in the guide for using RivaTuner, but for some reason I can't get the OC menu to come up I had this working back in the day when you needed furmark running to apply the settings, but then I had an SSD failure, and lost it and am just now getting to where I need RivaTuner working. Brian, got any suggestions?

Heres a video that my co-workers at my part time job made. I enjoyed it