20k 3DMark 06 with a Asus W90 notebook

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The nicest thing you would ever want from a laptop =)

[patrickgerry]

This is truly amazing. Only 230W PSU needed to power a 4870x2 and a quadcore! Just make you think how inefficient the desktop vid card is.

[-=$tr|k3r=-]

Notebook overclocking is good for your nerves, very relaxing I recommend this to anyone who feels stressed about overclocking.

Pretty amazed by the thermal solution of this notebook, almost 4GHz (!) with a quad-core cpu, just standing there on the desk.

The Mobility 4870X2 is running at 600MHz gpu and 1800MHz memory clocks.

Kinc,

Here in the U.S., 19Feb 2009, the ASUS W90Vp-X1 was released. The remarkable marks you have reported here is somewhat a mystery to us, as many of the units sold here are suffering with random start-up boot freezes, and stability issues.

ASUS says these lock-up's are due to the ATI 4870 (8.551.2.0) drivers, and the TurboGear VGA driver, and to date there is no resolution. ASUS continues to promise new drivers, but patience has worn thin with most folks. As of late, ASUS Notebook Tech Support now states there may be a hardware issue.... ??? (unspecified)

Since you are with ASUS Marketing, I was thinking the drivers on your featured W90VP were perhaps different.....???

Anyhow, I was wondering if you could help us out with any advice and guidance. Also, I was wonder which version ATI driver you were using, or if they are modded drivers. Additionally, the TurboGear info would be helpful as well. Did you have the TurboGear VGA driver uninstalled? Also, any driver links that could be provided would be SUPER, as the posted ASUS drivers on their site appear to be no help.

Also, the W90Vp-X1 was marketed, advertised, and released, as providing the "ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 4870, 1024MB of GDDR3". With regard to the graphics solution, I was wondering if you could answer the following questions:

1.) In the W90VP that you feature here, were you using the SAME 4870's as specified above?

2.) Have the 4870 graphics cards of the W90Vp-X1, been passed through ATI's certification program?

3.) Do these same cards use separate master and slave bios, and if so, are the bios available for download?

4.) Can you please provide me the specific clocks of the W90Vp-X1 cards, and is the speed information from GPU-Z, actually being downclocked by TurboGear..... as with the system memory?

5.) Will switching the two 4870 cards within the W90Vp-X1, one for the other, void my warranty?


Any information you could please pass on, I would be exceedingly grateful.

Thank you & Best Regards!

[CLPDJ]

-=$tr|k3r=- you are right... i have e seen many MANY people with w90 and trying to get 20k and the maximum is like 17.x ... i think the difference is that kinc had his cpu(qx9300) @ 3.9... i still dont get it how cold he get it so high with no problem, normally it wont get higher that 3.4 in a w90...

please kinc tell use:

what was yor, drivers vga, bios vga, bios laptop, etc... like me many people wold buy a w90 if they cold get 20k with it ... but with no solution like ther is non at the moment, like me many will buy a m17x with 280m sli

bguards m8's

[STEvil]

Kinc,

Here in the U.S., 19Feb 2009, the ASUS W90Vp-X1 was released. The remarkable marks you have reported here is somewhat a mystery to us, as many of the units sold here are suffering with random start-up boot freezes, and stability issues.

ASUS says these lock-up's are due to the ATI 4870 (8.551.2.0) drivers, and the TurboGear VGA driver, and to date there is no resolution. ASUS continues to promise new drivers, but patience has worn thin with most folks. As of late, ASUS Notebook Tech Support now states there may be a hardware issue.... ??? (unspecified)

Since you are with ASUS Marketing, I was thinking the drivers on your featured W90VP were perhaps different.....???

Anyhow, I was wondering if you could help us out with any advice and guidance. Also, I was wonder which version ATI driver you were using, or if they are modded drivers. Additionally, the TurboGear info would be helpful as well. Did you have the TurboGear VGA driver uninstalled? Also, any driver links that could be provided would be SUPER, as the posted ASUS drivers on their site appear to be no help.

Also, the W90Vp-X1 was marketed, advertised, and released, as providing the "ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 4870, 1024MB of GDDR3". With regard to the graphics solution, I was wondering if you could answer the following questions:

1.) In the W90VP that you feature here, were you using the SAME 4870's as specified above?

2.) Have the 4870 graphics cards of the W90Vp-X1, been passed through ATI's certification program?

3.) Do these same cards use separate master and slave bios, and if so, are the bios available for download?

4.) Can you please provide me the specific clocks of the W90Vp-X1 cards, and is the speed information from GPU-Z, actually being downclocked by TurboGear..... as with the system memory?

5.) Will switching the two 4870 cards within the W90Vp-X1, one for the other, void my warranty?


Any information you could please pass on, I would be exceedingly grateful.

Thank you & Best Regards!

Let me know if you eventually get through to Asus.. they had a rep here but he's gone silent...

[dany74q]

really interesting,even though I saw this module before,
your scores seems to be higher than the others.
I wonder what is the battery life? don`t think this kind of system can be powered for long by some lithium batteries.

[Norz]

...jävlar

Ln2 next..

[ichime]

...jävlar

Ln2 next..

I'll be interested to see how LN2 would be applied to a notebook...

[Norz]

I'll be interested to see how LN2 would be applied to a notebook...

Its been done a few times before, check here its a classic
http://hwbot.org/hwbot.post.do?postId=733

[BeepBeep2]

This is truly amazing. Only 230W PSU needed to power a 4870x2 and a quadcore! Just make you think how inefficient the desktop vid card is.

Or the desktop itself...

That's 20K on 230w.
Some of our video cards use more than that by themselves. (SLi or Xfire)

[ichime]

Its been done a few times before, check here its a classic
http://hwbot.org/hwbot.post.do?postId=733

haha, awesome! On a run-off-the-mill Dell too

Or the desktop itself...

That's 20K on 230w.
Some of our video cards use more than that by themselves. (SLi or Xfire)

Yeah it's amazing how mobile technology compares to desktops now. Also, even though Kinc didn't do any Vantage runs, the W90 hits around 8.8k-10.6k GPU score with the GPU stock (depending on how fast the CPU is due to its bottleneck). There were issues overclocking the GPUs with overdrive (it wouldn't overclock and thus give the same vantage scores), so they had to use GPU tool from techpowerup to get them to overclock. Nonetheless, it hits 11k+ GPU score easily once the GPUs are overclocked.

You also have the Alienware M17x with dual GTX 280ms scoring almost 12k in Vantage GPU scoring when overclocked.

[SavageThrash]

Yeah his score is higher then everyone elses - im only getting 3ghz out of my qx9300. I hit 11.4k for the gpu test in vantage at 600/900.

[scook9]

Man I am thoroughly jealous of that Chipset - it makes overclocking the CPU a joke! I was able to beat this score but it took boosting the voltage on my CPU to 1.4V Unfortunately I have to deal with a limiting BIOS

And oh ya, I did this on a consumer sample not a cherry picked specially engineered one for marketing

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alie...ml#post6433958

[Johnny87au]

Nice man something different, Should try the asus g73!

[milkcafe]

QX9300 @ 4166MHz

Mobility 4870 X2 @ 687/1118

vantage benched

http://forum.notebookreview.com/6453919-post3737.html

[scook9]

QX9300 @ 4166MHz

Mobility 4870 X2 @ 687/1118

vantage benched

http://forum.notebookreview.com/6453919-post3737.html

Well I was trying to keep it to 06 since that is what the thread was originally about, but ya, I did that too

Really want to break P15k but the way I am overclocking apparently disagrees with my BIOS because it is considerably reducing my memory bandwidth. The CPU score should probably be about 16.5k with those clocks.

And we might as well update my 06 score too.....I broke 22k More info can be found in the link in my sig in the post that is linked above (sorry it is so convoluted lol)

[.p4nzer]

It's more powerful than my desktop...

Pretty impressive!

How much for a beast like that?

[scook9]

The W90 or the M17x? The W90 is discontinued and kind of hard to get a hold of. The M17x is currently orderable from Dell with the top of the line mobile i7 extreme cpu and crossfire 5870m cards. Those have been pushed past 23k in 06 and are right at P18k in Vantage