Overclocked E1705/9400 7900 GS Benchmark Results - Page 20

People looking into buying a Merom ES chip make sure to see which stepping model your getting there are B1-Stepping5 and B2-Stepping6 which effects performance and price difference, I just found about this, this is why i may just wait for final retail versions

I was wondering what is the best v*******.rom for uping the voltage to 1.24 with a 90w power supply. I want to up the voltage to get better stability -- like someone else, I am getting slight artifacts at 460/1100 using ATI Tool -- but don't want to mess anything up. I want to go 500/1100 with the voltage at 1.24, but wondering if the risk is too great.

Anyway, thanks for the help!

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3D Mark 05

7178 - Cpc197c - T2400 / 1GB 667MHz / WUXGA / 60GB 7200 / Single Pipe / XTG 91.36 / 90W @ 430/1200

And here is the screenshot!
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...7079026&size=l

I seem to be having problems with my OC. My overclocked score in 3dmark 2005 are just a little better than the stock speeds.

3dmark 05:
Stock 375/1014 - 5360
OC'd 500/1200 - 5741

Here are my specs:
CPU - T2500
Memory - 1GB 533MHz
Screen - WUXGA
HD Size/Speed - 60GB 5400
Single or Dual-pipe Card - Single
Driver - nVidia 91.38
Power Supply - 90W



Is there something I am doing wrong, I thought my score should be at leat 7000 with the overclocked speed.

pmontones...With the 7900GS i believe you have to use the bootdisk method. Clocks won't work if u set them in windows. Read the first page.

Yeah, I tried using Windows at frist, then I used the bootdisk and those are the results I got from the disk.

If you don't change the voltage, the peak is about 470/1100 to 480/1100 without losing stability. So if you have the stock voltage with the core/memory up that high, it may give you problems.

Thought I would give the 500/1200 with the voltage mod a try and still no luck , still only 5740 in 3DMark05

Can you post a screenshot of the "detailed" results in 3dMark?

OK, I figured out what it was. In the nVidia control panel under the Clock Frequency Settings I had the Manual overclock button checked, I switched it to no everclock and bam it works here is the new score.

CPU - T2500
Memory - 1GB 533MHz
Screen - WUXGA
HD Size/Speed - 60GB 5400
Single or Dual-pipe Card - Single
Driver - nVidia 91.38
Power Supply - 90W
Core/Memory/Voltage - 500/600/1.24V
3DMark05 - 8045

Are you testing it on batteries? That would definitely screw up your score as on battery it runs at less capacity. I hope that helps.

Oops, didn't see this post. Glad to hear that it is resolved. Enjoy your new speed!

Is it possible to buy the dual pipe heatsink from dell parts or ebay? Anyone know the part number?

3DMark06 - 5549 - REAVER - T7400 / 768MB 533 / WUXGA / 100GB 5400 / Single-pipe / 91.37 / 90W PS @ 665/1200/1.22V


Here is the link to a screenshot, although I'm not sure why a screenshot is reqiured as proof since you can easily photoshop an image, but you can't fake an ORB submission.

Merom gave you a little boost anyway, Reaver. 200 points not too bad... How do you like the T7400 anyway? Just curious, as next month is my Merom upgrade month now, lol. I am surprised to see you got away with using PC4200 RAM instead of PC5400... supposedly there were lots of issues with Merom and slower RAM. Looks good anyway!

i have the 7400 ES now, it gave me a 300 boost on 06 but in 05 the cpu is not counted in the score. Anyway i cant run the 7400 and the voltmoded GS without having a major meltdown in my power supply, i need some help with that, i wonder if changing the bios will change the way the Motherboard uses the merom and if it may give me dif results, The problem is that i have 2 90w bricks and i need a 130w!!!! ANyone interested in a 2-1 trade? lol plz!!!

If not i will have to do something like using an AC Fan over my power Supply. Anyone else having the same problem? i have seen that it shts down after 3 min of full load on both (CPU AND GPU)
I wanted to post my scores but i dont want to until i can make both run at the same time. I maxed 8200 - 05 and 4200 -06 with my 2250 but i cant wait to see this beasta working together in 3d06.
I was getting temps up to 82c with 600/1150 but yesterday, while changing the cpu, i applied AS5 to my GPU (and little thinn Cooper sheets to the memory),and now, running atitool (old testing setting), i get up to 75c, but with normal testing settinngs up to 90c!!!!
Someone should make a chart of reported temps and clocks, Mi old 2250 was runnning at 56c MAX and now the 7400 runs at 76c-79c on full load. this is wierd. How much sould i let the temps rise? I think i applied the AS5 wrong, i fell the GPU running hotter and the CPU is obviously hotter, i would like some temps to compare mine to. :O
My first problem is making the CPU and GPU run toghether without the power supply shutting down. Then i must lower both temps. If anyone with a 130w power supply wants to trade with me for 2 90w PM me :P.

I was also wondering how to rest the fans to its normal speed after fangui closes. Must i do some temp compensation on the CPU just like in the GPU?
I cant figure out why i get 2 different load temps on the GPU while running ATitool. the lowest 1 is when i use the "old testing method" under artifacts. and the hotter 1 is when i use the newer settings.

I now taht is noobish to ask for a guide on AS5 usage, but i hace done about a 1000 times on different CPUS and this is the first time i get hotter temps!!!! What that gray original hardpaste anyway? should i use some cooper sheets over the memory modules to help with temps?

I know that the 7400 es runs at 13x / 1.2v but is that V to much? because i did not have that problem before with my 2250 running at 1.73GHZ
I fell that i wasted 375 $ on the merom

When I had my 7900GS, I kept mine at 1.24v and got as high as 625\1250, but decided to keep it at 600\1200, temps were well in safe area for my tastes and never had any problems. I have a 7900GTX now that I run at 625\1480 I get artifacts in ATItool right from the start and temps max out at 81 degrees in atitool, but i never get an artifact in any game i play, nor any benchtest, I have played for long periods of time and have had this clock setting for a couple of months now and never had a problem, I think ATItool is super demanding on a card, more so than any game would be.

Actually I think the problem is only when in dual channel mode, because my system runs fine with one stick of PC4200 or one stick of PC5300 or one of each, but when I put two matched sticks in I get the blank boot screen, hopefully dell can fix this in the next BIOS update so I can go back to 2GB. The T7400 is great, I upgraded from a T2400 so with the clock for clock performance upgrade and the increase in clockspeed my system is about 50-60% faster. I'm absolutely sure that I can get to 6000 in 3DMark06, I had to down clock my GPU while running Windows x64 since the fans never turn on, and these benchmarks were taken in x64 and 3DMark06 is 32 bit so it runs emulated in WoW64. Oh and yolda I did have that problem with the power supply shutting down, but I switched over to my 9300 power supply which has a ground pin and set the voltage down on the merom to 1.062-1.2 and haven't had that problem since, I'm guessing it's because the A01 and A02 BIOS don't fully support the Merom...yet.

I did a service call for dell one time on a E1705 w\ T2300\2GB Hynix DDR667 and the same thing was happening, I put two syicks in and ut would fail to boot, i would take one out and everything worked fine. After a few times of putting one stick in at a time and booting it up each time then putiing the second in It finallied worked right. it was odd but when it did recocnize 2gb i f2 and saved in cmos and all was fine.