M6600 Owner's Review - Warning - Large pics - Personal Opinions

Just telling the people that uses 3DMark06 to look at results set by Vantage and 3DMark11 instead. Also, are your Marks on Overclocked settings?

 

All benchmarks are with the card overclocked.

Have run into a weird issue. I can't reproduce the 3168 that was the fastest 3D Mark 11 score. I can get 3094, but that's it.

In my archived scores I have 7 scores over 3100, but something that I installed is slowing it down.

 

I see then I guess I shouldn't release to the people who wants M8900 the potential of their cards.

850 Core
1100 Memory
Catalyst 11.7 WHQL

i7-2720QM CPU

3DMark11:

P3794

3DMark Vantage:

P15162

However, I will confess that your 4000M yielded more OC potential than the M8900 could do.

 

Great scores! I know the ATI card is having some heat and battery life issues right now, but it has a lot of performance built in.

My guess is that when the 5010M comes out it will be the biggest performer.

Until the 5010M comes out, the ATI appears to be the best gaming card. The newest Nvidia Beta drivers are slower than the June drivers.

Thank you for the info!!

 

Dont really own a FirePro gpu but Star Forge sendt me a challenge to beat his 3DMark 11 scores. :3

Heres my results with AMD Radeon HD 6970m @ 850MHz Core, 1100MHz Memory.
3DMark 11: P3910 3DMarks

My edition results says "Basic" and not "Advanced" like in Star Forges run btw.

 

That's basically what I'd expect, yeah. It's mainly a curiosity thing at this point; I'm still not happy with the performance of the Quadro 4000m in 3DMark, but if I'm honest with myself it's not realistically an issue for me... I'm pretty sure that the most graphically demanding game that i own is still Half Life 2, and I haven't played that since probably 2007.

Yeah, a 10*C differential across the cores is a bit excessive. 2-3*C I can see from thermal compound misapplication, but 10*C is quite significant. If it were my machine, depending on what the thermal paste looked like, I'd be taking a very close look at the flatness of the contact area on that heatsink. There's a couple ways to go about doing that, I'm figuring you're probably aware of them already. If anyone else wants to check theirs I can post up something about how to do it.

Anyhow, if the contact area looked decent and the heatsink base is reasonably flat, I'd question the accuracy of the on-die sensors on some of the cores; Intel doesn't advise using them for high-resolution temperature measurements and i've seen a few CPUs with one or more sensors that don't report correctly. I mean, even my SR Macbook Pro-which was notoriously bad about thermal paste-didn't pick up more than about 5*C from a thermal compound reapplication. I can't imagine that the M6600 is that much worse.

 

Hi guys I'm new here & thx Bokeh for this cool review,

My question might sound weird, but I'd like to know how wide the hinge allows the monitor to be opened. I ask this because I'm interested in the stylus pen option, but it would be much more convenient to use it if you could open the monitor 180 degrees.

Thx for any answers, take care. This site rocks!

 

About 170 Degrees but not a complete 180 Degrees.

 

I should be a little more clear about the difference. When the machine is at a stable load, there is maybe 3-5 degrees difference. The 10c (worst case) happens when I put a heavy synthetic load on the chip when it is in the 50c range. One core will hit 82c and the lowest temp core will be 72-74c. The temps will then even out to 76-81c across all cores.

On the other machine with the 2620m dual core, the RAM slots under the keyboard are disabled. I am going to swap in a 2720qm to see if the RAM slots become active. I have been told it will work. It would be a great improvement over the M6500 that had differing motherboards that shipped with dual and quad cores. Could have been a Dell thing, could have been an Intel thing.

 

Thanks for the info. 170 degrees is fairly enough for my purposes I guess.