Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge

So your fun is quiet in idle with your FX770? Because I also deciding between FX770 a 1700M in my furutre M4400. If this is the reason, then I whould probably take the firtst one. Afhstingray can you tell me what are your temperatures in idle? The graphic temperature at firts place.

 

Okay, I heard about those two displays and I also heard that the grainy one is Panasonic. So let me know what type you have, I am really instrested in that.

Brightness could be reduced easily isn't that true? Just FN+Down as usual on DELLs.

 

Selfquote: HOOOOORAY!

FX770 (full specs see sig!)
~43°c idle, fan off (0rpm)
~68°c WOW: WOTLK - fan low (3000)

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ALS or FN+ UP/Down is for Backlight. FN Left is for Keyboard Backlit.
Keyboards can be changed VERY! easily, you just need a small screwdriver and a knife.
Backlit Keyboard is ~85€ (120$) as spare part

 

my temps are pretty much the same as the ones quoted above. the FX1700 is not worth it IMO, dosent give much of a performance benefit over the FX770 and consumes more power, produces more heat.

as lexi posted in the other thread, its 35w tdp vs 50w tdp. 50 watts is pretty high.

for gaming there is no significant performance increase, for CAD there seems to be a 10% increase, however the cinebench scores are pretty much the same for both.

IMO the fx1700 is not worth the trade off of heat, battery life, and cost.

 

Okay I gonna take the 770M, I hate noise And is it possible to upgrade graphic card later? For example when nVidia introduce succesor of 770M with the same TDP and of course Dell put it into M4400 offer?

 

The FX770m is fine with OCing via nvidia stock drivers... same TDP, More Power

 

you cant upgrade the graphics on the M4400, its soldered to the motherboard. its not a separate card. changing the graphics would require a motherboard replacement

 

Has anyone tried overclocking your notebook? If so, what settings are you using and how much did it increase your 3dmark06 score?

 

read the overclocking thread...all your answers are there I got mine to a high 7k

 

Same here. Also, in Linux...I don't even think it comes on at ALL....can't hear it anyway No, you want the fan running...without it it's toast, just not on high all the time, which mine doesn't do. Actually, this notebook is much better about the fan than my two Asus notebooks