New M6500 Discussion Thread

Not seeing that (on 920xm's) with some other benchmarks which also peg the CPU at 100%. Sure you're not in an inappropriate power profile/etc?

 

It's supposed to change frequencies or 'throttle'...but if the software requires it and the temps are OK it should not throttle 'down'....that is what people complain of I think. I do use a nice laptop cooler to minimize this during gaming and hopefully extend the life of the laptop The temperature throttle points are sent in the BIOS....DELL changed them fairly dramatically with my M4400 with different BIOS updates.

 

I'm trying to decide on a distro for this Precision right now. I've a love of Slackware, and might try Salix.....don't know yet.....I work from Linux on my Vostro, and use an XP virtual machine with my data files saved and "dropboxed" on my /home partition (outside of the VM to shared folders I mean)...syncs with my win 7 machine, pretty nice.

 

well, not really....with proper cooling and voltage it will definitely throttle as software requires it....I posted a link to an intel desktop gadget that shows this happening...for instance right now I'm at 1.73ghz and depending on what I run it will ramp up to 3.06ghz (my power manager setting is on high performance)....I'll find that darned link to that gadget...it's for i7 processors...maybe i5's...can't remember....all this assuming you're not using throttlestop and overriding it's 'natural' behaviour....

EDIT: here is the intel desktop gadget: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/1835...BoostSetup.exe

 

haha....thanks Heddok...I'm just now reading your reply.....

 

Yup. MS' own synthetic scoring aside, an SSD will change everything.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 920 @ 2.00GHz 7.2
Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB 7.5
Graphics NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M 6.9
Gaming graphics 4606 MB Total available graphics memory 6.9
Primary hard disk 177GB Free (238GB Total) 7.7

 

Cool....I'm motivated now! (for an SSD!)

 

I didn't even bother running WEI, I just don't see its relevance in anything (as with most benchmarks): However just did - identical to spill, with the exception of disk as my spec are Dell-shipped dual encrypted Samsungs (not running in RAID0): 7.4

 

I spent about a month investigating throttling when I first got the M6500. I was not able to come up with any real world test that was able to induce it. This included games that were both gpu and cpu intensive, encoding video with gpu acceleration while simultaneously encoding with cpu, and running several types of renders at the same time.

The m6500 just runs.