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11.9 preview? I'm on 11.9 final and it's definitely not over 30fps consistently.

Sorry, meant 11.10 preview 3 drivers. With standard res., 1440x900, I get mid-high 30s, may have turned off motion blur - will check.

Performance is way better than Beta and should improve further when the day one patch is released. Because I jumped the gun and played early (UK) won't get the patch until the 28th.
 
Sorry, meant 11.10 preview 3 drivers. With standard res., 1440x900, I get mid-high 30s, may have turned off motion blur - will check.

Performance is way better than Beta and should improve further when the day one patch is released. Because I jumped the gun and played early (UK) won't get the patch until the 28th.

I agree with this, I'm running the 11.10 preview 3 drivers @ 1650x1080 and getting 35+ fps

Textures high, shadows low and everything else medium... Low post processing and af x2 :)

Gpu is at 750/950 0.95v

Very pleased
 
I am running the 11.9 drivers. I think it runs slightly better than the beta. I have to turn down my resolution though. Does anyone have any problem running BF3 with ATI Tray Tools? My game kept on crashing, but when i removed ATT, it works prefectly fine. Any suggests for a different overclocking program?
 
I am running the 11.9 drivers. I think it runs slightly better than the beta. I have to turn down my resolution though. Does anyone have any problem running BF3 with ATI Tray Tools? My game kept on crashing, but when i removed ATT, it works prefectly fine. Any suggests for a different overclocking program?

i'm overclocking with ati tray tools and it works fine... could be a problem with your clocks being too high... what are your settings?
 
Can somebody help me?

I am new in this website, i don't know if i am allowed to make new threads.
I am looking for buying a laptop, my choice is between an Alienware m17x and a MacBook Pro 15" 2011 ATI 6750. I am not a hardcore gamer, im looking for playing WoW, DotA, HoN on decent graphics and mess with Eletronic Music production. which one should i get?
 
I am new in this website, i don't know if i am allowed to make new threads.
I am looking for buying a laptop, my choice is between an Alienware m17x and a MacBook Pro 15" 2011 ATI 6750. I am not a hardcore gamer, im looking for playing WoW, DotA, HoN on decent graphics and mess with Eletronic Music production. which one should i get?

Definitely get the Macbook Pro; it'll be more than enough to play the games you play, and Dell's new laptop builds are really really bad even for Dell's standards. Besides, if you really need the power the m17x has you might as well get a desktop that you can upgrade later on.
 
I am new in this website, i don't know if i am allowed to make new threads.
I am looking for buying a laptop, my choice is between an Alienware m17x and a MacBook Pro 15" 2011 ATI 6750. I am not a hardcore gamer, im looking for playing WoW, DotA, HoN on decent graphics and mess with Eletronic Music production. which one should i get?

Just so you know, the 6750m and the 6770m are the same chip, you can easily undervolt and overclock the 6750m over the 6770m clocks in windows ( which i use for gaming). there's an over clocking thread in this forum that'll give you everything you need, most of all it makes your macbook run cooler.

since lion, the diference between fps on lion and windows when playing sc2 is 1 fps (windows wins), although running windows allows you to overclock your mac effectively giving it the edge. However, you should know that whatever your running will run so much cooler in mac os.

i'd go for a mac... it's a complete different experience, i used to have liquid cooling on my pc and used nothing but the most powerful hardware. since switching to a mac, that need is long gone. today i know hardware isn't everything, and i started with a mere 2008 13" core duo. many will never understand this.

i can happily say that i don't feel the need to format my mac, in fact, i have never formatted a mac, and mine's as fast as the day i bought it. In windows, i felt this need to run defraggers, spyware scans, anti virus scans, all of these weekly to remove whatever garbage you collected during that period. most annoyingly i felt a need to re-format every six months. in mac os, you just work, play, watch you tube videos, whatever you want, and once a month you run a tool like onyx which does some regular maintenance. that's it really.
 
I have the new macbook pro with the 6770m...
i guess its the same as a 6750m just with 725/1600 ??
Trying to run Battlefield 3 at the best possible setting. What should I overclock it to?
You mention something about it running even cooler?? After overclocking??
 
I have the new macbook pro with the 6770m...
i guess its the same as a 6750m just with 725/1600 ??
Trying to run Battlefield 3 at the best possible setting. What should I overclock it to?
You mention something about it running even cooler?? After overclocking??

Yes it can run cooler, but also hotter, depends how far you're willing to go; for more information you should visit this thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1142028/
 
I have the new macbook pro with the 6770m...
i guess its the same as a 6750m just with 725/1600 ??
Trying to run Battlefield 3 at the best possible setting. What should I overclock it to?
You mention something about it running even cooler?? After overclocking??

6770M is 725/900. Notebookcheck.net is incorrect.
6750M is 600/900.

That's assuming Apple are running them at the default clock speeds.
 
6770M is 725/900. Notebookcheck.net is incorrect.
6750M is 600/900.

That's assuming Apple are running them at the default clock speeds.

6750M is 600/793 MHz. At least that's what Apple has them clocked at, early 2011 17" MBP.

Either way, a 800/900 overclock of a 6750M is well above the performance of the 6770M.

Is your only reference for the clocks you listed Wikipedia?

Anyways, is the default VDDC of the 6770M in the new MBPs still 1.000 Volts?
 
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Apple have a history of downclocking GPUs. The X1600 in my 2006 MBP was running at just over 300MHz instead of the 400+ it should have been.

I should get my late 2011 15" tomorrow, will check the clock speeds when I get a chance.

The corrected speeds I quoted earlier are from Wikipedia, and correlate to the woolly information on the AMD website.
 
In BF3.. I'm finding full screen recommended res and low settings with 16x AA and HBAO turned on still looks pretty amazing and gives me about 20 more FPS.
 
About to purchase a Mbp 15" but is there a huge difference in game play w the 512 vs 1 gb of VRAM

I play mostly racing sims and sc2
Tia all
 
I keep pressing f5 and getting no work done at work bc I keep refreshing on my phone lol

http://www.refurb.me/us/

Sign up and and you can pick which model you are interested and they will send you a notification once it's avail at the Apple refurb store so you can be more productive at work :D

In the US I see the 15" 2.2 1gb vram avail now.
 
http://www.refurb.me/us/

Sign up and and you can pick which model you are interested and they will send you a notification once it's avail at the Apple refurb store so you can be more productive at work :D

In the US I see the 15" 2.2 1gb vram avail now.

Thank you very much for the link, but I think I found a great deal on eBay from a reputable seller I'm getting giddy like a school girl
 
That $600 would be better used on an SSD which will be more valuable than 1gb vs 512mb vram

As it happens, in video games, or at least the majority of them, the speed of your hard drive really determines loading screens and how fast data is able to be accessed on demand. You will open games and load new environments/levels with dazzling speed, but the better card will ensure you a much more noticeable performance boost concerning FPS. This is *not* really because of the VRAM, which is, I here, mostly oriented in dealing with textures. 512 mb is decent for a wide range of video games. The 6750 vs the 6490 is clocked higher or has more cores (can't remember), and has a significant boost. Go with the 2.2, but don't bother with the RAM or 2.3 upgrade, they're both wastes of money. If you need more RAM, just upgrade it yourself.
 
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