Alienware M18x-R1 + 680M SLI

[mw86]

Yeah I noticed test 1 is where most of the FPS were dropping out which sucks. I'm still not getting over 9k physics, what settings are you using for the [email protected] ghz? Anyway the idea to get the MSI FD vbios to work in SLI didn't pan out, I was going to use HyperSLI to try to force it on but no go..ah well.

Jack the amps up and watts it is only going to use what it can. If its still 9k set 99 long and short in bios and set msr lock off so you can just up watts after each test so you can use throttle stop to set watts and to check if its getting higher in physics. Im pretty sure 112-120 amp would be fair. Might be easier just to set priplane to 1200. Sounds like where ever your setting watts its using a lower setting. Is your long watt limit resetting to 80 in bios. Dont re-enter multiplier bios menu after setting priplane and watts in power options

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[johnksss]

Exactly when all is said and done on gpu then add cpu and adjust. Only enthusiasts bench at a Dentists office. cheers. AMD likes to hang on test 1 also it must be really hard on the gpu.

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I was working on their server at the time. And thought I would do a comparison with Brian while I was at it.

Yeah I noticed test 1 is where most of the FPS were dropping out which sucks. I'm still not getting over 9k physics, what settings are you using for the [email protected] ghz? Anyway the idea to get the MSI FD vbios to work in SLI didn't pan out, I was going to use HyperSLI to try to force it on but no go..ah well.

You ready for that teamviewer session yet? LOL

You can find out what they do by running vantage gpu test. You can over clock pretty high here and get away with it.

[mw86]

Wouldn't be the first time Teamviewer came to the rescue. Teamviewer ftw. Lol DR650se posted a bench he did over Teamviewer while watching tv from another room once. Lol good times

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[johnksss]

Wouldn't be the first time Teamviewer came to the rescue. Teamviewer ftw. Lol DR650se posted a bench he did over Teamviewer while watching tv from another room once. Lol good times

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That's because I was benching his and scook9 laptop from my house over teamviewer. I even got a few records..haha

[Brian]

@johnksss I noticed in Intel XTU I can't adjust the multipliers or turbo voltage, is there a setting to enable this? These are my CPU settings and it still won't go above 9200 in physics and I can't figure out why yet. As you can see in the Intel XTU graph, utilization hits near 100% and the frequency doesn't dip which indicates no throttling taking place. Physx in the CP is set to CPU as well.

Edit: Also here's a TS log of the 20 second window during which the physics test is run..it looks fine to me. The CPU doesn't seem to exceed 100W during the test but C0% is near 100%, temps are fine too:

2012-10-26  10:40:37  44.00   92.0  100.0  100.0        0   71   1.4261   88.6
2012-10-26  10:40:38  44.00   91.8  100.0  100.0        0   73   1.4261   87.3
2012-10-26  10:40:38  43.90   91.7  100.0  100.0        0   72   1.4261   83.1
2012-10-26  10:40:38  43.90   93.4  100.0  100.0        0   72   1.4261   90.9
2012-10-26  10:40:38  43.84   93.9  100.0  100.0        0   74   1.4261   84.7
2012-10-26  10:40:38  43.87   91.8  100.0  100.0        0   73   1.4261   84.0
2012-10-26  10:40:38  44.00   93.3  100.0  100.0        0   74   1.4261   91.2
2012-10-26  10:40:38  44.00   92.6  100.0  100.0        0   74   1.4261   91.5
2012-10-26  10:40:39  44.00   94.7  100.0  100.0        0   74   1.4261   86.7
2012-10-26  10:40:39  43.90   92.9  100.0  100.0        0   73   1.4261   87.5
2012-10-26  10:40:39  43.93   91.6  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4161   83.5
2012-10-26  10:40:39  43.90   93.7  100.0  100.0        0   76   1.4261   88.2
2012-10-26  10:40:39  44.00   93.6  100.0  100.0        0   74   1.4261   87.7
2012-10-26  10:40:39  43.91   92.4  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4261   88.1
2012-10-26  10:40:39  44.00   92.4  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4261   93.8
2012-10-26  10:40:39  43.93   92.2  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4261   88.9
2012-10-26  10:40:40  44.00   94.2  100.0  100.0        0   76   1.4261   83.8
2012-10-26  10:40:40  44.00   93.3  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4261   91.0
2012-10-26  10:40:40  44.00   91.8  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   86.2
2012-10-26  10:40:40  44.00   92.8  100.0  100.0        0   76   1.4261   86.0
2012-10-26  10:40:40  44.00   93.7  100.0  100.0        0   76   1.4261   91.4
2012-10-26  10:40:40  44.00   93.6  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4161   88.2
2012-10-26  10:40:40  43.74   93.6  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   87.5
2012-10-26  10:40:40  44.00   94.0  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4261   98.1
2012-10-26  10:40:41  43.90   93.4  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4261   89.1
2012-10-26  10:40:41  44.00   93.6  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   80.9
2012-10-26  10:40:41  44.00   94.6  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   89.1
2012-10-26  10:40:41  43.90   94.3  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   94.7
2012-10-26  10:40:41  44.00   94.3  100.0  100.0        0   76   1.4261   85.8
2012-10-26  10:40:41  44.00   95.8  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   96.2
2012-10-26  10:40:41  44.00   94.5  100.0  100.0        0   75   1.4261   94.3
2012-10-26  10:40:42  44.00   94.5  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   83.1
2012-10-26  10:40:42  43.90   95.2  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   90.3
2012-10-26  10:40:42  44.00   95.8  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   96.3
2012-10-26  10:40:42  44.00   93.0  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   83.7
2012-10-26  10:40:42  44.00   93.9  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   91.3
2012-10-26  10:40:42  44.00   94.6  100.0  100.0        0   76   1.4261   88.1
2012-10-26  10:40:42  44.00   95.5  100.0  100.0        0   76   1.4261   88.5
2012-10-26  10:40:42  44.00   94.3  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   92.1
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   93.8  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   88.7
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   94.0  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   88.3
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   94.0  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   94.9
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   93.6  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   95.2
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   94.4  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   79.4
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   94.2  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   96.1
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   94.2  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   86.7
2012-10-26  10:40:43  44.00   92.5  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   87.1
2012-10-26  10:40:44  44.00   94.4  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   92.0
2012-10-26  10:40:44  44.00   93.7  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   89.3
2012-10-26  10:40:44  44.00   92.4  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   86.6
2012-10-26  10:40:44  44.00   94.9  100.0  100.0        0   77   1.4261   91.9
2012-10-26  10:40:44  44.00   93.6  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4161   89.6
2012-10-26  10:40:44  43.90   95.0  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   87.4
2012-10-26  10:40:44  44.00   92.2  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   94.1
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   94.5  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   90.8
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   93.4  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   85.1
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   93.6  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   88.7
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   95.3  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   94.3
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   92.4  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   85.8
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   93.1  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   90.3
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   93.8  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   89.0
2012-10-26  10:40:45  44.00   91.0  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   89.8
2012-10-26  10:40:46  44.00   95.3  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   90.4
2012-10-26  10:40:46  43.96   91.5  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   87.2
2012-10-26  10:40:46  43.94   92.5  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   90.9
2012-10-26  10:40:46  44.00   96.1  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   92.9
2012-10-26  10:40:46  43.80   94.8  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   90.2
2012-10-26  10:40:46  44.00   96.4  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   97.9
2012-10-26  10:40:46  44.00   95.7  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   91.1
2012-10-26  10:40:46  44.00   95.1  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   84.0
2012-10-26  10:40:47  44.00   93.0  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   87.8
2012-10-26  10:40:47  43.90   95.4  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   90.0
2012-10-26  10:40:47  44.00   94.8  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261  100.2
2012-10-26  10:40:47  43.90   94.1  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   83.4
2012-10-26  10:40:47  44.00   93.8  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   97.2
2012-10-26  10:40:47  44.00   95.0  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   85.7
2012-10-26  10:40:47  44.00   92.7  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   86.3
2012-10-26  10:40:47  43.91   94.0  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4261   90.9
2012-10-26  10:40:48  43.92   95.0  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   89.7
2012-10-26  10:40:48  44.00   93.2  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   93.6
2012-10-26  10:40:48  43.90   92.9  100.0  100.0        0   79   1.4261   90.0
2012-10-26  10:40:48  43.92   96.0  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   98.5
2012-10-26  10:40:48  44.00   93.4  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   82.5
2012-10-26  10:40:48  43.92   93.9  100.0  100.0        0   78   1.4261   97.5
2012-10-26  10:40:48  44.00   94.7  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4261   94.2
2012-10-26  10:40:49  43.83   94.5  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   81.5
2012-10-26  10:40:49  44.00   94.3  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   94.5
2012-10-26  10:40:49  43.90   95.5  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   92.4
2012-10-26  10:40:49  43.91   95.3  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   89.2
2012-10-26  10:40:49  43.90   94.6  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4211   91.4
2012-10-26  10:40:49  43.90   92.9  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   97.6
2012-10-26  10:40:49  43.92   96.5  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   88.6
2012-10-26  10:40:49  43.89   94.0  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   97.6
2012-10-26  10:40:50  44.00   95.9  100.0  100.0        0   80   1.4261   85.2
2012-10-26  10:40:50  44.00   93.8  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   93.9
2012-10-26  10:40:50  43.72   95.1  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   96.5
2012-10-26  10:40:50  43.95   96.6  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   89.3
2012-10-26  10:40:50  43.76   95.3  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   87.4
2012-10-26  10:40:50  44.00   94.4  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   98.3
2012-10-26  10:40:50  43.70   96.2  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   90.6
2012-10-26  10:40:50  44.00   95.9  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   87.3
2012-10-26  10:40:51  43.81   95.8  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   95.7
2012-10-26  10:40:51  44.00   95.6  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   94.5
2012-10-26  10:40:51  43.75   95.4  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   91.8
2012-10-26  10:40:51  43.78   94.8  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   92.5
2012-10-26  10:40:51  43.89   95.0  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4211   91.3
2012-10-26  10:40:51  43.75   95.3  100.0  100.0        0   81   1.4261   93.1
2012-10-26  10:40:51  43.81   93.9  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   86.7
2012-10-26  10:40:52  43.90   95.5  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4211   94.1
2012-10-26  10:40:52  43.66   96.5  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   88.4
2012-10-26  10:40:52  43.78   93.1  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   92.0
2012-10-26  10:40:52  43.63   96.4  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   92.4
2012-10-26  10:40:52  43.91   95.6  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312  100.9
2012-10-26  10:40:52  44.00   96.5  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   83.1
2012-10-26  10:40:52  44.00   95.7  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   97.7
2012-10-26  10:40:52  44.00   94.7  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   88.2
2012-10-26  10:40:53  43.81   95.4  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312  100.6
2012-10-26  10:40:53  44.00   95.0  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   88.2
2012-10-26  10:40:53  43.89   94.0  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   87.7
2012-10-26  10:40:53  44.00   96.4  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   99.9
2012-10-26  10:40:53  43.90   94.9  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4211   91.7
2012-10-26  10:40:53  43.92   95.8  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   87.2
2012-10-26  10:40:53  44.00   95.1  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   92.2
2012-10-26  10:40:53  44.00   95.9  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4211   92.3
2012-10-26  10:40:54  43.90   94.8  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   95.1
2012-10-26  10:40:54  44.00   96.0  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   91.2
2012-10-26  10:40:54  43.84   96.8  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   95.6
2012-10-26  10:40:54  43.83   94.3  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   89.7
2012-10-26  10:40:54  44.00   93.9  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4211   94.1
2012-10-26  10:40:54  43.87   94.4  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4211   88.7
2012-10-26  10:40:54  43.62   94.9  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   91.9
2012-10-26  10:40:54  43.81   94.9  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4211   92.7
2012-10-26  10:40:55  43.66   95.1  100.0  100.0        0   82   1.4312   95.5
2012-10-26  10:40:55  43.90   94.3  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   89.6
2012-10-26  10:40:55  43.83   97.2  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   98.0
2012-10-26  10:40:55  44.00   94.7  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4211   93.8
2012-10-26  10:40:55  43.73   92.9  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   83.7
2012-10-26  10:40:55  43.99   94.5  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   93.9
2012-10-26  10:40:55  43.92   96.5  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   94.5
2012-10-26  10:40:56  43.77   96.6  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   91.1
2012-10-26  10:40:56  43.96   94.8  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   94.7
2012-10-26  10:40:56  43.70   96.9  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   92.5
2012-10-26  10:40:56  44.00   96.1  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   92.1
2012-10-26  10:40:56  43.99   96.1  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   94.3
2012-10-26  10:40:56  43.90   96.0  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   95.1
2012-10-26  10:40:56  44.00   96.0  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   90.7
2012-10-26  10:40:56  44.00   95.6  100.0  100.0        0   83   1.4312   99.0
2012-10-26  10:40:57  43.89   95.7  100.0  100.0        0   86   1.4312   86.4
2012-10-26  10:40:57  44.00   95.3  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   97.2
2012-10-26  10:40:57  44.00   97.2  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   90.4
2012-10-26  10:40:57  44.00   95.5  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   99.1
2012-10-26  10:40:57  44.00   95.0  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   93.3
2012-10-26  10:40:57  44.00   96.2  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   88.4
2012-10-26  10:40:57  44.00   95.7  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   93.8
2012-10-26  10:40:57  43.91   96.0  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   92.4
2012-10-26  10:40:58  43.80   95.2  100.0  100.0        0   84   1.4312   93.0
2012-10-26  10:40:58  43.83   95.3  100.0  100.0        0   85   1.4312   97.1

[johnksss]

Is that XTU 2.1.1?

Side Note:

You should be well into 100 W for that test...

[Brian]

I figured out the problem, it was the memory. I had two types of memory in all four banks and that caused problems with the score. I took out the slower ram and left the hyper x stuff in there and the score went to 9900. And yeah that xtu was the wrong version.

How do you configure xtu so that it doesn't ask for a reboot when changing mult?

Sent from my GT-N7000

[johnksss]

Good.

You can't. It has to reboot for that. But what you can do is set them high and have TS auto start as a lower multi. Then use ts to up and down your multipliers.

XTU is only used for changing the multipliers above 45x and bclk adjustments along with turbo voltage adjustments. The one one that doesn't need a reboot is bclking.

[Brian]

Good.

You can't. It has to reboot for that. But what you can do is set them high and have TS auto start as a lower multi. Then use ts to up and down your multipliers.

XTU is only used for changing the multipliers above 45x and bclk adjustments along with turbo voltage adjustments. The one one that doesn't need a reboot is bclking.

Oh ok, yeah that's what I had been doing. I set the bios at 44x and then usually keep the multipliers via TS to around 40x for daily use or 42-44x for benchmarks. BTW have you had any luck with 1866 mhz ram in the R1?

[johnksss]

Once you make a change using XTU the bios multi's change back to stock in the bios. When going into the bios, you only want to make adjustments to flex vid and or pri plane only.

Should look like

99

56

99

1200

In the power menu.

Flex maybe around 45 Under the second advanced menu.

And give her a whirl.

As to 1866.....It worked better than 1600 for a few things like vantage and 3dmark11...

[Brian]

Once you make a change using XTU the bios multi's change back to stock in the bios. When going into the bios, you only want to make adjustments to flex vid and or pri plane only.

Should look like

99

56

99

1200

In the power menu.

Flex maybe around 45 Under the second advanced menu.

And give her a whirl.

As to 1866.....It worked better than 1600 for a few things like vantage and 3dmark11...

Pretty much the settings I have now but I've never tried that high of a flex, guess I'll give it a shot and shoot for the moon. Have you tried the custom ram timings in the bios yet? I gave it a shot and found xmp profiles work better.

[johnksss]

You wont be able to get away with it right now I don't think, but you can start by adding a little as you go up in multipliers. You can only do so much sitting on a desk and at room temps.

Since your working with 3dmark11, temps are really not that much of n issue right now, since you figured out your cpu problem.

Run test 2/3/4 at your highest over clock and see what you get.(Gpu over clocking only. Leave your cpu where it is now)

XMP profiles only work if you have a flashed working xmp profile on you memory. If they came factory like that, then I would use them. (1866 or higher XMP)

[Brian]

You wont be able to get away with it right now I don't think, but you can start by adding a little as you go up in multipliers. You can only do so much sitting on a desk and at room temps.

Since your working with 3dmark11, temps are really not that much of n issue right now, since you figured out your cpu problem.

Run test 2/3/4 at your highest over clock and see what you get.(Gpu over clocking only. Leave your cpu where it is now)

XMP profiles only work if you have a flashed working xmp profile on you memory. If they came factory like that, then I would use them. (1866 or higher XMP)

Thanks, starting at 45x w/30 flex and got a decent score I guess: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P0 3DMarks Well much better than the 9200 I had to start with anyway.

[johnksss]

No problem.

That's way better. Puts you right where you need to be at that speed.

[Cheech]

Anybody have any thoughts about going from 6990s to putting in 2 680s vs just buying a new m18xr2? This thread shows it can be done but, even on eBay, it's quite a bit of money. Does hdmi in/out still work if you go to 680s sli on the r1?