So I was pretty bummed that I couldn't get the 970m working well with Win10. But now I have it up and running on Win7 I have been able to run some benchmarks overclock a bit and see how it fairs.
Specs:
P150EM
CPU: 3610QM
GPU: 970m 6GB (ASIC: 74.4%)
RAM: Kingston Hyper X PnP 1866 4GB x4 (16GB)
HDD: 850 EVO 500GB
Prema v2 bios and v2 vbios
*The cooling system: repaste with Arctic Silver and aluminum foil for GPU heatsink/fan mod
PSU: stock 180w
nvidia 362.00 GPU driver
Unigine Heaven 4.0
Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset: Custom
Quality: Ultra
Tessellation: Extreme
FPS: 39.1
Score: 985
Min FPS: 21.6
Max FPS: 86.7
* That is with +162 core and +300 Mem, stock voltage and highest temp running Heaven at 73 degrees. This is now my regular stable profile.
From what I can find with other people's scores online that is roughly comparable to a 770, 960, 380. So I am pretty happy with that!
***Disclaimer...I understand this is a synthetic benchmark and in game results will vary.....***
Now for Firestrike:
Stock non-overclock results:
Overall: 6486
GPU: 7643
Physics: 7510
OC:
Highest overall score:
Overall: 7535
GPU: 8935
Physics: 8296
Core + 208 Mem +?? Forgot (look at the picture..) *stock voltage* got up to 86 degrees.
With stock voltage I couldn't get the core more then + 212 before the drivers would crash. With that my highest GPU score for firestrike was 9011. But for some reason overall score dropped to 7440ish.
I tried unlocking voltage but it still seemed grayed out in Afterburner, oh well.
Conclusion:
Pretty happy with my budget gaming laptop! As for cost, with luck and notebookreview members selling their parts I got the P150EM for $450 and the 970m for $280, total cost of $730. I got the RAM and HDD from my old P150HM with 6990m that wasn't pushing the frame rates i hoped for, even though I am more a casual gamer. Now I can sit back enjoy some good 1080p gaming - or dial down the graphics just a bit for my 21:9 UltraWide LG 25UM57-P and play my old HL2, Bioshock (1,2,3), L4D2, or NFS games. Or even some new games that arn't as graphically challenging like Firewatch. =)
For me its perfect considering I don't play the newest AAA titles, but playing old games at max setting and ultrawide like HL2 while pushing high frame rates is pretty fun! Just headphones and dim the lights make it a great experience.
Also for those of you who get a chance to also upgrade your P150EM, make sure to support Prema or this wouldn't be possible! =P
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UPDATE 1:
Picked up a 3820qm!!!
Can't wait to try it. It will take a while before I get to use it though.
On a different note, some more benchmark results.
my comfortable overclock is +245 core +500 Ram with +25 for voltage
Firestrike:
GPU score: 9202
General: 7720
(details in the attached pic)
High Temp: 84C
Unigine Heaven 4.0
Score: 1052
FPS: 41.8
(details in the attached pic)
High Temp: 78C
With this basic overclock its pretty solid and the performance increase is pretty nice!
After that the return for pushing clocks higher for my system isn't that beneficial vs temps
with +303 core +450 ram +68 voltage the return is minimal.
Firestrike:
GPU score: 9431
General: 7843
(details in the attached pic)
High Temp: 90C
Unigine Heaven 4.0
Score: 1067
FPS: 42.4
(details in the attached pic)
High Temp: 85C
It is interesting to note that even though the Unigine score is higher my Min FPS went from 17ish to 15.9 so even though the overall score is higher the min FPS is lower.
I can't find the pic right now but highest GPU score for Firestrike was 96xx but overall score was lower then the 7720 from a lot lower score. it seems to hit a wall or something.
Anyways with pascal just being unveiled I am hoping for in a year or two mxm pascal card support! haha.
I also got lucky enough to pick up a barebone P370EM for 300ish so the hardware from my P150EM will migrate to the P370EM in a couple months. Looking forward to see how it is.
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UPDATE 2:
Steam Sales Rule!! Reason I say this is because 3DMark was for sale for $5, and according to this article:
http://ift.tt/28RRnCw
I should also have access to the DX12 Benchmark when it comes out too.
I got a new high score! (This is only a benchmark setting, not for regular gaming!)
Core + 350
VRAM +450
CoreVoltage mV +100
GPU score: 9598 - Right in the 980m territory.
Only problem is that it runs hot. With just the FireStrike 1.1 benchmark it gets up to mid 80's - the problem is if I run a stress test the temps keep slowly creeping up and up, when it hit 90 and was only 5min on the stress test I stopped it. If I can find a way to properly cool the GPU this might be a theoretical setting I can run it at!
For now my gaming setting is:
Core +243
VRAM +363
CoreVoltage mV +25
GPU score: 9024
http://ift.tt/2a7b2wF
Works great and is a nice boost is FPS!
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Small update 4:
New top score:
GPU:9690
Total:7939
Seems like my current memory max is +543 - anything more and artifacts show up.
Also in contrast to when I started and I couldn't break +212 core on stock voltage and now I can run +230 on core with stock voltage..... ???
I wanna break 10k GPU!! haha.
P150EM w/ 970m results. Heaven 4.0 and Firestrike
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