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Macbook Pro 15inch 2011 ATI 6750m Game Benchmarks

In theory you will probably get a crashed driver first or maybe a shutdown but it is possible that part of the card/memory is overheating and may eventually fail. But then this can also happen at stock clocks if you are very unlucky.

With regards to warranty, I am not sure. If they can prove you overclocked then I am sure they would void your warranty but I am not sure they would notice
 
ninja2000 said:
In theory you will probably get a crashed driver first or maybe a shutdown but it is possible that part of the card/memory is overheating and may eventually fail. But then this can also happen at stock clocks if you are very unlucky.

With regards to warranty, I am not sure. If they can prove you overclocked then I am sure they would void your warranty but I am not sure they would notice
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u sure they wouldnt see the big crater like spot on the AMD/ATI chip? :)) "this man has overclocked for sure" .. well, with all the goop they put in we should be fine to oveclock it until it gets to 200C ! :)
 
ATI's overclock nicely and all the Mobile ATI's I've overclocked I never noticed any real temp different changes, maybe 2-3'c. The 5k and 6k series ATI cards run cool and quiet.

I highly doubt it'd overheat, you'll hear the fans spin up like crazy, slow game play if your playing anything and 99% of the time the driver will crash or freeze/shutdown.

All overclock voids warranty of any part but they need to prove it which is all software done in this case.

I have to agree with ya computertechno, 200'c sounds about right :p

I'm def going to overclock mine when I get it!
 
what are the best drivers you found for ?

tried the MSI afterburner utility, but i cannot increase the values - it's already maxed out and the shader slider cannot be moved !?
 
For those of you trying to decide between the 1440x900 or the 1680x1050 screen, here's a PPI (pixels per inch) calculator. The higher the PPI, the better the image you see - that's why the iPhone 4's screen blows you away...

http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html

For example, the current 23" LED monitor hooked up to my Mac Mini has a resolution of 1920x1080 and a PPI of 95.78

By comparison, the iPhone 4 screen has (i think) a 326 PPI count
The LED Cinemadisplay (27") has a PPI of 108.79

and the 1440x900 MBP screen has a PPI of 113.21 which is an improvement over my (really nice) LED monitor that I'm perfectly happy with. This, factored into the idea that I really really want to play games with good framerates nudges me in the direction of the normal res screen :)

Well, that's my contribution. :) any thoughts?
 
computertechno said:
u sure they wouldnt see the big crater like spot on the AMD/ATI chip? :)) "this man has overclocked for sure" .. well, with all the goop they put in we should be fine to oveclock it until it gets to 200C ! :)
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Lol, I sincerely hope you're joking...

Also, just a small note to those complaining about heat.... the heat has to go somewhere... and aluminum conducts heat... it's good for the internals because (within reason) if you can feel the heat, it's being dissipated. Think of the Unibody as a giant heat sink.

With non-apple notebooks, the plastic really holds the heat in, and can cause overheating issues (like what happened in my old Sony)

So, as long as the heat is tolerable, which it should be unless you're gaming in your lap, dont worry about it too much ;)
 
dinjin201 said:
For those of you trying to decide between the 1440x900 or the 1680x1050 screen, here's a PPI (pixels per inch) calculator. The higher the PPI, the better the image you see - that's why the iPhone 4's screen blows you away...

http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html

For example, the current 23" LED monitor hooked up to my Mac Mini has a resolution of 1920x1080 and a PPI of 95.78

By comparison, the iPhone 4 screen has (i think) a 326 PPI count
The LED Cinemadisplay (27") has a PPI of 108.79

and the 1440x900 MBP screen has a PPI of 113.21 which is an improvement over my (really nice) LED monitor that I'm perfectly happy with. This, factored into the idea that I really really want to play games with good framerates nudges me in the direction of the normal res screen :)

Well, that's my contribution. :) any thoughts?
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Hi-Res 15.4" has:
132.08 PPI

Better? I think so. In fact it's 16.67% better. Also I agree that lower res=higher frame rate. Although I can't live without anti-glare.
 
Can somebody post a youtube comparaison vid about ati 6750 vs 6750 overclocked ?

i really want to know the difference :)
 
mike2732 said:
Hi-Res 15.4" has:
132.08 PPI

Better? I think so. In fact it's 16.67% better. Also I agree that lower res=higher frame rate. Although I can't live without anti-glare.
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Of course it's better :) that's why it's a high res screen. Now, I will still see an improvement from my other monitor to this one, and I'll be content with better framerates. Some of you might prefer to go the other way and want more DPI. It's a matter of opinion. I will, however, say this... not a single one of you with high res screens should ever show me your screen.... it would make mine look inferior - an act I would not take too kindly.. ;)
 
Overclocking the gpu with stock bootcamp drivers isnt possible as far as i know. Just like it wasnt possible to overclock the Nvidia card with stock Bootcamp drivers. Now simply updating the catalyst doesnt work either as this gpu is simply not supported yet...however i maybe found a solution :
I found a custom driver which can update the driver to version 8.821 (right now its 8.812)
I also found out how to change the entries in the .inf files, so the driver supports more cards. I will try this out and report...

IF it works, we not only have much more speed, but also the ability to overclock.
 
imperialnavy said:
Overclocking the gpu with stock bootcamp drivers isnt possible as far as i know. Just like it wasnt possible to overclock the Nvidia card with stock Bootcamp drivers. Now simply updating the catalyst doesnt work either as this gpu is simply not supported yet...however i maybe found a solution :
I found a custom driver which can update the driver to version 8.821 (right now its 8.812)
I also found out how to change the entries in the .inf files, so the driver supports more cards. I will try this out and report...

IF it works, we not only have much more speed, but also the ability to overclock.
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Yes you can overclock with the stock Bootcamp drivers since they are simply ATi/AMD 8.812 drivers as you mention.

I upgraded my driver to 8.821 (you have to download the full package with driver and catalyst control centre as the driver package alone won't install, but you can choose 'custom install' and de-select ccc) but it made no difference to 3DMark06, which remained at about 10,300.

I then used MSI Afterburner to overclock but note that the config file needs to be edited first to allow unofficial overclocking mode. With clock/memory settings of 780/900 I got a 3DMark06 score of 11,928 on my 2.2GHz MBP. Going to push it much further later on today. :D
 
JasonH42 said:
Yes you can overclock with the stock Bootcamp drivers since they are simply ATi/AMD 8.812 drivers as you mention.

I upgraded my driver to 8.821 (you have to download the full package with driver and catalyst control centre as the driver package alone won't install, but you can choose 'custom install' and de-select ccc) but it made no difference to 3DMark06, which remained at about 10,300.

I then used MSI Afterburner to overclock but note that the config file needs to be edited first to allow unofficial overclocking mode. With clock/memory settings of 780/900 I got a 3DMark06 score of 11,928 on my 2.2GHz MBP. Going to push it much further later on today. :D
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Just in case you didnt know, afterburners max overclocks are 780 on core, if you wish to clock higher, overclock to this then close and reopen afterburner and it will increase the maximium overclock. I am currently running 800/950 with great temps so considering pushing it more :)
 
ninja2000 said:
Just in case you didnt know, afterburners max overclocks are 780 on core, if you wish to clock higher, overclock to this then close and reopen afterburner and it will increase the maximium overclock. I am currently running 800/950 with great temps so considering pushing it more :)
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Sweet. Thanks for the tip, I was looking for another app to get around the limits.
 
JasonH42 said:
Yes you can overclock with the stock Bootcamp drivers since they are simply ATi/AMD 8.812 drivers as you mention.

I upgraded my driver to 8.821 (you have to download the full package with driver and catalyst control centre as the driver package alone won't install, but you can choose 'custom install' and de-select ccc) but it made no difference to 3DMark06, which remained at about 10,300.

I then used MSI Afterburner to overclock but note that the config file needs to be edited first to allow unofficial overclocking mode. With clock/memory settings of 780/900 I got a 3DMark06 score of 11,928 on my 2.2GHz MBP. Going to push it much further later on today. :D
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Which full package do you mean ? Can you give me a link ? :)
When i tried installing 8.821, it didnt even show me the option to install a display driver...
 
imperialnavy said:
Which full package do you mean ? Can you give me a link ? :)
When i tried installing 8.821, it didnt even show me the option to install a display driver...
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Depends on your OS, but for Win7/Vista x64 it's here:
http:\\www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/mobile/11-2_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe
 
JasonH42 said:
Depends on your OS, but for Win7/Vista x64 it's here:
http:\\www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/mobile/11-2_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe
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Well installing it actually worked...great :D I was even able to upgrade to 8.840.3...
However i am not able to access the performance section in the catalyst and MSI Afterburner also doesnt work...infact for some strange reason it treats my gpu as a Radeon 6600m card....Well and using other clocks wont work either..
 
imperialnavy said:
Well installing it actually worked...great :D I was even able to upgrade to 8.840.3...
However i am not able to access the performance section in the catalyst and MSI Afterburner also doesnt work...infact for some strange reason it treats my gpu as a Radeon 6600m card....Well and using other clocks wont work either..
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How did you upgrade to 8.840.3?

You have to edit the MSIAfterburner.cfg file in the install directory and change two entries exactly as below:

UnofficialOverclockingEULA = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it

UnofficialOverclockingMode = 1
 
Well installing 8.840.3 was actually a bit tricky..
I had to exchange all the driver files manually (exchange 11.2 files with 11.4 ones)
Also i had to include the graphics cards from the 11.4 driver´s .inf (simply copy paste them into 11.2´s .inf.. )

When it installs it will look like its installing 11.2, however the display driver will be 8.840

As for speed, i didnt exactly notice a lot...

Now i will try overclocking with the MSI Afterburner.

By the way, when i unplug the ac cable, does my gpu automatically lower its clocks or will it stay at maximum when needed ? If possible i would love to force clocks, i want them to stay high all the time.
 
I would probably get a MBP with a glossy low resolution screen + Apple cinema display.
Want to play games -> low-res
Time to get back to the work -> external display

Also think that you will be upgrading your MBP sometime.
And you don't want to pay 100+ dollars for a nice screen every time, right?
That is why external display is a best choice, IMHO.


These 6750M benchmarks are quite impressive.
Now you can play in all the high end games available, with 30+ FPS! :eek::cool:
Awesome.
 
Arni99 said:
12280 3dMark06
MPB 15" 2.2GHz 6750 OC 780/955
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Wow these are pretty high clocks...now i know that ATI cards are known for being great when it comes to overclocking, so what does the temperature say ?
Will it survive extended gaming with these clocks too ?

I overclocked mine to 650/820, just did an extensive rampage in Mafia 2, maximum temperature was 85°C..i guess there is room for more :p
 
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