3dmark on Ideapad Y460

[jeffreybaks]

Here are a few benchmarks of some 3dmark runs on my lenovo Ideapad Y460.

Specs:• Intel® Core™ i5-460M Processor ( 2.53GHz 1066MHz 3MB )

• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64

• 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz

• 14.0" HD LED Glare 1366x768

• 500GB 5400

• DVD Recordable (Dual Layer)

• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1GB

• Industry Standard Touchpad

• 6 Cell Lithium-Ion

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3dmark11 set to "benchmarks tests only" for runs. Only the GPU was overclocked which is representative of how Id game.

entry no overclock/with overclock

performance no overclock/with overclock

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decided to post some more benchies, here is resident evil 5

settings on "Fixed" and in DX9 mode, I didnt change any settings either/second is overclocked GPU

settings on "Fixed" and in DX10 mode, I didnt change any settings either/second is overclocked GPU

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No benchmarks are complete without 3dmarkvantage. Overclock is with just the GPU

Set on Entry level, second is overclocked

Set on Performance level, second is overclocked

Edited July 19, 2011 by jeffreybaks

[svl7]

Nice, how hard can you overclock your card? Can you adjust the voltage?

[jeffreybaks]

Haven't messed with the voltage yet, I use AMD's GPU overclocking tool, works well but there is a setting on there that will allow you to adjust the voltage. Default clocks are 550 on the core and 800 on the memory. I can push the core to 700 and the memory to 850.

[svl7]

That's cool, seems to overclock pretty well. You can also try TriXX if you want, very nice interface and works like a charm.

[jeffreybaks]

Iv tried a few others, but they wouldnt set the clocks at all. This tool always works all the time, its perfect cept there isnt any monitors or nothing and it is bit plain but cant complain.

[mw86]

I used to use AMD GPU tool also on dual 5870m's but after updating drivers to a certain point it stopped working on dual you even when you ran furmark to get 2nd you to turn on... which worked until the later drivers. So then i just went to flashing the vbios with my overclock... It was easier and allowed ulps to still function.

[jeffreybaks]

yea I owned one of the first alienware gaming laptops, 776SN0, it was an iteration of the 5500, it was an area51-m as they say. I used to use omega drivers for it, I think there still going but in that software it had its own overclocking ability. I should have known when I started to try overclocking, it was already at its max, like way way max lol, I just wanted some extra performance in World of Warcraft, I probably played it maybee 3 thousands hours on that machine but when I went to overclock it, the first time it worked but the second time, something happened and the screen went hay wire. So for a good 1 and half years after that I had these blue artifacts in every game, it was kinda funny but it pisses me off at the same time. There was also artifacts in other games, but most the time it was blue ones that you would see just hues of blue all over textures, you could still run the games fine and they looked basically the same.

I searched for so so long, looking through every page on the net finding what I could to fix it. I finally one day, about year later, found this site that had exactly what I was looking for, it dealt with artifacts and what causes them. It was the memory on the ATI Radeon 9600 pro that had become corrupted while I was overclocking it. It didn't fix the problem right off the bat, but I new what I was looking for after that and another 6 months down the road I decided to update the drivers to the newest 10.1 that was out then and sure enough to my amazement it worked perfectly like the laptop was brand new.

Edited July 18, 2011 by jeffreybaks

[Mordheim]

what was a temperature after O/C ?