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Yeah. The odds of having the kit not boot are extremely low. I would say the odds of making it to 3200MHz is about 85%. If you don't hit 3200MHz, you can always just go down to 2933MHz, without that big of a performance penalty. Odds are those are dual rank dims, which Ryzen does have a harder time hitting full speed on, so worst case scenario you will have to be running at 2666. You will lose some performance if you have to drop down that low, but the odds of you having to go down that low are pretty low.
Introduction:
By the popular concept of @Aniallation, who since retired from the forum, the "How many watts do I need" is still one of the most asked question by many people wanting to build a PC. By similar methodology, here a simple guideline to how much your PC would need, assuming the quality of the PSU itself is good. These numbers are estimations based off a stress maximum load, one you will likely never reach in normal use. Take these numbers as a guideline, but feel free to ask on the forum itself if you're still not sure what you need with your exact configuration.
Methodology:
CPU+GPU+50=estimated wattage, chosen worst case out of the configs
Please be careful with things that have lithium batteries. They can easily explode if bent and cause seriously bad injuries or death if you catch on fire.
Well no not internet speed, network speed. Once that connects to NBN it'll be exactly as fast as everyone else's internet speed, SLO...................packet loss...........................OW.
This list only covers the GTX 1000 series, GTX 1600 series and RTX 2000 series for Nvidia, RX 500 series, 5700 and RX Vega for AMD. Cards are not prefered between AMD or Nvidia or any brand listed here. Notes may be included with some of the cards. Tiers are based on facts. We rate on known problems, vrm and cooling capacity.
List is subject to change at any time, due to change in sources available.
Roman done a vid recently where he tried nickel plating a laptop heatsink to get around the whole issue of LM TIM reacting and alloying with bare copper. He explained the problem rather well so perhaps watch that.
As for nail polish, clear normal nail polish to cover transistors and the like directly around the die if necessary.
if ur talking about removing the old TIM, just use basic isopropyl alcohol ideally 90%+
Summary:
In typical gaming laptop fashion, the 4900HS has already been dethroned by a more powerful laptop, the XMG Apex 15 featuring a full desktop Ryzen 9 3950X.
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My Thoughts:
STOP STOP. THEY'RE ALREADY DEAD. It looks like high-end laptops are getting extremely competitive this year and I am more than happy. Per derbauer's own graphs, the R9 3900X is 44% faster than the 4900HS, it'll be interesting to watch the gaming and professional laptop space the rest of the year and onwards.
To download any version of cinebench, type cinebench into google!
To download cinebench 2003 go to > http://hwbot.org/ < then benchmarks> processor benchmarks> then click download. its a rar file so you will need to open it with 7zip or a similar program.
To download cpuz or gpuz, type them into google and get the latest version.
FAQ:
How do i get my score put on the spreadsheet?
You wait a very very very long time
How many times can i post my scores?
you can post as many scores as you like with as many different cpu's as you like. if you have 2 of the same cpu then let me know. only the highest score you get with a cpu will go on the spreadsheet. (e.g if you have a score with a 2500k@3ghz and then improve your score with your 2500k@4ghz then your score at 3ghz will be deleted and your score at 4ghz will go on the spreadsheet. if you get a with a 2500k@3ghz then upgrade your cpu to a 2600k@ 3ghz you will keep both scores.
Why is my gpu being beaten by a much slower gpu on the open gl test?
This will probably be because your cpu is slower single thread. the open gl benchmark is designed to be limited as much as possible by your cpu, so if your gpu is getting beaten by much slower gpu's. overclock your cpu more!
How do i run the single thread test?
In the top left hand corner, click file, then advanced benchmark. this should bring up 'cpu (single core)' underneath the normal cpu test. this test takes much longer as it only uses one core and one thread.
Post a screenshot of your score in this thread with cpuz so we know the clock speed (dont crop the screenshot)
Memory and motherboard tabs are optional, but are useful if you are looking for tips for higher scores
you can take a screenshot by press shift and prt sc on your keyboard.
then to see you screenshot open paint (with comes installed with every copy of windows)
then you can either press ctrl and v or paste in paint and the screenshot will appear in paint
you then save the file as a .jpeg somewhere you will be able to find it later
open the interwebs and upload it to your gallery on the forum or upload it to a place of your choice and simply copy and paste the image into a new post on this thread
Top tips to a high score:
1) Don't have any other programs running while you are doing the benchmark. This includes temperature monitoring software and cpuz. if you are concerned about your temps do one run with the monitor open to check they dont get too high, then another run without it open.
2) Overclock your cpu and gpu!
3) take your side panel off your case, open a window or go in a colder place. less heat+more overclock=higher scores.
4) Run the tests separately a few times this can get you that last extra point.
5) Run it on a fresh install if you can. fresh installs are always faster.
6) Don't use your 24/7 oc. top scores will be done with overclocks that might be too hot or too unstable for normal use.
7) more ghz on your cpu is always good, but make sure your ram is running at its full potential too. Normally 1600mhz cl8 will be faster than 1866mhz cl10. get that cl down as low as possible while trying to maintain a good memory frequency.
link to scores google doc (R20)> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ItbDCn4dPaJANGgFczL3uCZRquxZXQM9Kmn17kCBdZE/edit?usp=sharing
link to scores google doc (R15)> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlC81MjwelBgdEZNV3l6aHl1eUNwSUR4Rml0MXMzN1E&usp=sharing
link to scores google doc (R11.5)> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlC81MjwelBgdGpFa3BPaG5QRG1QREFPU3A0dWdVTlE#gid=0
link to scores google doc (2003)> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlC81MjwelBgdGVQQnFRVUNxTjZPYVdjT1pDdHA0MUE#gid=0
R15 Extreme Score have now been integrated into the R15 sheet
Example Screenshots:
How your ram speed can affect your cinebench scores.
R11.5
Introduction
I’ll cover the Asus FX503VD-DM078T which I bought to replace my expired MSI GE62 6QF. Both of these were bought as gaming laptops in the 15.6” size class. I realised I did a lot less gaming on a laptop than a thought, but it also was not a zero amount. I didn’t want to spend as much as the £1250 the MSI cost in December 2015. Now it is April 2018 and the Asus was £600, or half the cost. It should be noted this specific Asus model is different than that offered at most other places, which is suffixed DM080T. As far as I can tell, the only difference is in the storage. The ’78 I got has a 256GB SSD. The ’80 has a 1TB HD. The ’80 pricing starts from £700, but at time of writing it also includes Sea of Thieves and another Intel software pack I can’t find any details of. As I don’t care for the software, the cheaper model with SSD is better value.
Box contents
As a budget laptop there wasn’t much in there, covering the essentials. You get the power brick, the power cable for the local region, and 4 screws in case you want to fit a 2.5” drive later on. More on that later.
Early impressions
On first boot there was the usual Win10 stuff to turn off, decline, and wondering if Cortana understood here I told her to go. Once that is over, you get an Asus registration screen, where you can opt in to their mailing list, and a McAfee account. I declined the latter.
Once in, the laptop downloaded the latest bios for itself and asked to be rebooted. This was pretty fast and is a nice touch to keep updated.
Apart from some Asus tools, the only other bundled software was McAfee anti-virus and web protection. No thanks, away that went. I haven’t looked further at the Asus included software yet, but unlike other laptops the system tray isn’t littered with additional software icons.
I started customising the layout to how I like it when I realised it shipped with Win10 Creators Update. Ok, time for a not so quick trip to Windows Update to bring it up to Fall Creators Update. At the time of writing the early 2018 update hasn’t been released yet, so that is something to look forward to.
Physical features
External ports - to the left of the laptop are the power socket, ethernet, HDMI, two USB, and a headphone socket. To the right is a SD card reader, another USB port, and Kensington lock receptacle. Only the left two USB ports are indicated as SuperSpeed.
Keyboard is UK layout unlike my previous modified US layout. As a minor comment the F keys are slightly shifted right compared to typical full sized keyboards, which seems unnecessary since there is space between F1 and Escape which could be reduced. Also there is no numlock indicator LED, or physical PgUp/PgDn keys. The only way to get them is to turn off numlock and use the numpad. I’m going to have to learn to use touchpad scrolling as substitute.
The touchpad is large and generally responsive to movements. It doesn’t have separate physical buttons for left/right click, instead it goes for the whole pad is a button thing. This might take some getting used to as it is the first time I owned such an arrangement. Scrolling can be done by multi-touch, defaulting to Apple style direction, or the opposite to the more common wheel mouse.
Screen seems to be TN. The vertical viewing angles leave something to be desired but once you settle into position it is fine. Horizontal viewing angle is not a problem. Colours seem to be ok. At least it is matte so no worries about reflections.
The laptop construction is mostly plastic, but it is textured and feels more premium than it sounds.
Core components
Ram
There is a single module of 8GB capacity, running at 2400 17-17-17… so nothing exciting about the speed or timings. The use of a single module helps in allowing the 2nd to be free for upgrade without removing any ram, but there is a bandwidth hit in single channel. More on that in benchmark results later.
Storage
The is a 256GB Sandisk M.2 SATA SSD included. Performance figures are nothing special and within general expectations for a typical SATA device.
CPU
The i5 7300HQ is a Kaby Lake quad core CPU which does not feature hyper-threading. Rated at 2.5 GHz base, it goes up to 3.1 GHz all cores active, and 3.5 GHz single core active. At 45W TDP it doesn’t give the cooling system too much work.
GPU
Although not explicitly mentioned, this seems to use nvidia Optimus technology, with the Intel HD 630 in use for low demand applications, switching seamlessly to the nvidia GTX 1050 for higher loads. This configuration comes with 2GB vram. Is this going to limit gaming potential?
Thermals and noise
The air intake is from under the laptop, collected by a fan on each side and blown out of the back. The laptop feet aren’t very deep so intake airflow is somewhat restricted, and might be improved by propping up the back a bit more. In normal use, and even when running short benchmarks, it remains very quiet. However… running a longer benchmark or doing some other activity which does stress it more, the fans can go into high speed mode and noise increases. It isn’t just a fan noise, there seems to be more of a hum on top, possibly from a vibration or resonance somewhere.
Above shows two runs, to the left is with CPU, FPU, cache, ram selected. To the right is selecting only FPU. Even under this sustained CPU load, the cooling was adequate.
This thermal imaging shot was taken while running a prolonged memtest for a few hours. There is a kind of vent area at the top of the keyboard getting towards 50C. However as the surfaces are plastic they don't seem to transfer heat, although the air in that vicinity was somewhat warm. Vents at the back were in the ball park 45-47C.
Upgrades and benchmarks
One of the reasons this laptop sold itself to me was the upgradability stated on the product page, one screw (and the associated plastic panel) is all that separates you from the internals, at least a part of it. In this upgrade bay is an empty SODIMM slot, a used M.2 slot, and an empty 2.5” bay.
My original upgrade plan was to put the 2x8GB modules from my old laptop into this one so I have a matched pair, but with the populated socket inaccessible, I just put one of the sticks in the spare slot. For now I’m not changing or adding to the storage.
The laptop included ram is 2400C17, and the additional ram is 2133C15… so how does that work? Quite well actually. The laptop ram will also run at 2133C15, so now I’m running that dual channel, compared with 2400C17 single channel before. Based purely on the rated speeds and channels, I should have 78% more ram bandwidth. Note this doesn’t take into consideration latency at all.
With it in place, does it actually affect any benchmarks though?
SC (Single Channel) 2400 is the original configuration as purchased.
DC (Dual Channel) 2133 is with the additional module fitted.
Going through a set of Aida64 results, the ram bandwidth benchmarks certainly improved, although none of them quite to the full extent of the theoretical bandwidth change. The write got closest to the expected 78% at 75%, with read and copies around 62% faster. Latency also went up slightly by 1.1%. This is not unexpected actually, in theory 2133C15 is 0.7% slower than 2400C17. The difference may be attributed to either run to run variations, or other timings having some impact.
In the remainder of the Aida64 benchmarks, only one sees a significant improvement. The CPU PhotoWorxx test showing a 69% increase in performance. Presumably this test is data heavy and ram bandwidth limitations dominate. Other tests only showed a fractional if any difference so for practical purposes are unchanged.
Prime95 testing was done in 3 configurations. 64k FFT 4c4w runs a separate small test on each core. This should comfortably fit in the L3 cache of the CPU so shouldn’t be affected by ram configuration, and there is no significant change. 512k FFT 4c1w runs one task multi-threaded on all 4 cores. The nominal data set is 4MB, so easily fitting the L3 cache. Again we see no significant change from the ram upgrade. Finally, we have 4096k also multi-threaded. This has a 32MB working data set, so it has to use ram. Here we actually see better than ideal scaling of almost 90% improvement. For practical purposes I think we can assume we get the ideal scaling, and the apparent bit extra may be due to run to run variations.
Next up is Cinebench R15. Here I saw no change, which was a minor disappointment as I need 2 more points to take the lead for the CPU on HWBOT! In my past testing on other systems, ram performance did make a small difference. That it was not seen here maybe due to the CPU not making enough demand on the rest of the system, so the ram is practically unlimited. If the CPU were faster, for example, with hyper-threading, then maybe more of a difference could have been seen.
Onto graphical testing, starting with my current timesink, Final Fantasy XIV StormBlood (benchmark). The game has 5 presets, and of those I tested two: Standard (Laptop) and High (Laptop). The benchmark reports a synthetic score, but shown here is the reported average fps. Unfortunately it isn’t easy to pull more detail than that, as lows would be interesting also. Still, the standard setting gave a decent average of 75 fps, so dips under 60 were not too frequent. Setting it to high did see more drops below 60 as you might expect. And the ram upgrade? There was a small percentage uplift but not enough to make or break it.
The old favourite of 3DMark was next in Fire Strike and Time Spy. Scores are not remarkable given the hardware level. Also the extra ram didn’t seem to alter the scores much. I was wondering if the load might be enough to see some benefit from it, but it appears to not be the case.
And finally, I tried GTAV. There were some quirks which I think were due to GTAV itself, in that I initially had trouble getting the graphical settings to stick. Eventually I managed to reset to defaults, then change resolution to 1080p full screen, vsync off. A single run of the benchmark was used in each condition. The results… frame rates were ok, and it actually seemed to load smoother than some of my higher spec systems, especially in the jet part. And the change from the ram? It’s all over the place. I wouldn’t rate this as significant, and is more likely due to run to run variations.
CPU overclocking
There are no options at all in the bios. To try and adjust the CPU, I installed Intel XTU which reveals some sliders for voltage, current and power limits, but nothing for clocks or multipliers. Could relaxing the limiters help performance? Maybe, if it didn’t crash. Relaxing the turbo power limiters all the way and running Cinebench R15 causes the laptop to reset. Maybe a more moderate setting could still give a boost without the reset, but the gains aren’t likely to be great.
GPU OC
Loading up MSI Afterburner, it is possible to adjust only the core and ram clocks, but not the other settings. A quick test run with +200 on each of core and ram, gave a score of 5625, compared to 5231 before. This is an increase of 7.5%. At this time I wasn’t looking to find the limits of overclocking, but only to see if it was possible at all with these moderate settings.
Security
At time of writing (29 April 2018), there is now a new bios available which does include the Spectre/Meltdown update. It is available on the website, but is not offered by the update tool on the laptop.
Towards the end of 2017 was also Intel-SA-00086. This required a ME update which doesn’t seem to be the case, so is also reported as being vulnerable.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html
It is nice there is an update to cover Spectre/Meltdown, but a bit disappointing it didn't also include the ME update. This is the only system I have come across which has the Spectre/Meltdown update, but not the ME update. The ME update was widely distributed at the end of 2017.
Overall
It is still early days for me and this laptop, having had it for 4 days. I've yet to seriously game on it, outside of the various benchmarks run to get a feel for its performance level. GTAV ran better than I thought it might, although it is an older title by today's standards, it remains somewhat demanding. I may revisit this later on as I get more usage out of it.
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