M6600 Owners Thread

3DMark 11 Basic P2341
Graphics score 2078
Physics 6989

 

Can the M6600 with 2920xm CPU have it's TRL and TDP adjusted with Throttle Stop 3.0? Can someone please let me know. I am trying to see if the CPU can be overclocked before I buy one.

YouTube (Video of how to see if it is adjustable)

 

What more do you really want to know? The M4600 got as proper a review as you are ever going to get. It doesn't make it any less so b/c some schmuck from Cnet didn't do the review.

My issues are either driver or Optimus related. Could be self induced, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be having them if I was using the older Dell vid card drivers.

 

nekura, I miss old times here, when there was so much so called official info about M6400 (that I have now). Right now we only have some benchmarks and lots of "I have Quadro this is the best" and "No I have M8900 this one is the best". Right now I am leaning towards M8900 and 2720QM, but I see people are into Quadros more. Paying 500 to 1000 bucks for extra 2 hours (browsing on web) battery life. Is this is all what Quadros do better?
Sorry for stupid questions, but when I got 3700M I felt disappointed when FirePro went selling. It was too late to change, so I want more decent comparisions etc. I am not buying that M8900 is the same as HD Mobility 6970M (or is it? damn...)
I don't see (so far) any good reason for 4000M.
Again sorry for stupid questions.
P.S. I don't care about Cnet schmucks. I read stuff here.

 

Quadros have always been specific use hardware. You used to be looking at several thousand for the lowest end card available. Unless you are a working professional/student in film, games, architecture or any other field that is taking advantage of the CUDA cores I would go with the ATI.

The 2720 has the best performance per cost ratio. If you're not benchmarking you're not really going to notice any real world boosts with it. Some would argue this, but that's arguing for arguing's sake.

I'm not disappointed at all with mine, and it games probably better than it should considering what I bought it for.

 

Will do some tests today and in the morning, any other speeds to test?

Also I agree that the ati card works for people who don't need a gpu for specific programs.

 

Nekura big thanks for your attention. Actually very appreciate it. I am working on architecture stuff and 3D modeling (progs like Revit, Solidworks, 3DMax, Autocad ...) and it happens that I have to carry my workstation together with me. So I am interested in such things.
That's nice to hear about processor. I've read about it earlier.
The basic point is which 1333 or 1600 RAM
What impact does SSD against normal HDD (I don't care about windows loading times btw.)
And for a card type, where is that significant difference I still didn't see it. Or I've missed it. If so I am very sorry for not being attentive on this thread.
Wired360 I will be looking forward to your tests too and other people.
Ok time to shut up and read more clever people

 

The RAM is not worth worrying about. I ordered 2gb from Dell and put 16gb of 1600 Hyper-X in for ~200. Max definitely will use the CUDA cores. If you're using iRay for arch vis stuff it's a lot faster. It's the kind of thing you can show your renders to in real time with GI and everything to a client.

Everything you do in your OS will be faster with a SSD. My 3D software is really noticeable (Maya, Mudbox, Nuke...). I think it's worth it to have just for your OS/3D apps.

 

I'm itching to pick up a precision for 3D work (primarily maya). I've read just about every post starting from the first one. I think only 5-10 posts pointed in the direction for my particular needs. I noticed one poster (forgot the name) posted specviewperf scores for his Quadro 4000.

For anybody that has a firepro 8900, could you download specviewperf 11 (free) and run the test and post your scores? I just ran it on my alienware with the 460m (overclocked) and here are mine.

catia-03 4.78
ensight-04 17.08
lightwave-01 10.71
maya-03 10.09
proe-05 1.13
sw-02 6.26
tcvis-02 0.81
snx-01 2.03

From what I gathered, for 3dmark and gaming performance the quadro 4000 and the firepro 8900 are fairly close. So the other side of the story is how well these cards do in professional settings.

P.S. And is it possible to softmod the 460 to a quadro of sorts? Anyways I look forward to the 8900 scores! Thanks!

 

The Quadro has hardware the Geforce's don't have, but Geforces generally have more CUDA cores for the money. I overclocked my 3000M way above what the 4000M ships with and didn't notice any change in temps. The CUDA cores, and clocks are the only difference between the two afaik.