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    GS70 Onwers, I need your help with a benchmark please!!

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by churnlikebutter, May 15, 2015.

  1. churnlikebutter

    churnlikebutter Newbie

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    Hey everyone,

    I need help. I am currently slated to get a new laptop at work to use for light CAD design work (mainly 2d design). The laptop that I really want is the MSI GS70, due to the fact it has dual mini display ports so I don't need a crappy usb3.0 docking station, and it is a beast of a system.

    My higher ups recommended a Dell workstation series laptop (M3800) that is really crappy... the reason they recommend that laptop is because of the workstation gfx card, the NVIDIA Quadro K1100M.

    I tried explaining to them that even with the K1100M being optimized for autocad they GTX970m would still run circles around it!

    Is there anyway someone out there with either Graphics cards / laptops would be able to run an Autocad specific benchmark? There aren't any benchmarks showing up in google for either and it would be nice to have some anecdotal internet evidence to use in my favor...

    The CAD specific benchmarking is here: http://www.cadalyst.com/benchmark-test

    And you can download a 30 day trial copy of Autocad 2015 at the autocad website.

    Would really appreciate it if you could help me escape the clutches of getting a Dell.

    Thanks!
     
    churnlikebutter, May 15, 2015
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    ryzeki Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    Forget the nvidia KM card, the dell uses an intel 4712HQ, with a TDP of 37w. That will be very limiting to any intense CPU usage, that will most likely drop you below 2.9Ghz under stress.

    Hopefully someone can chime in and help you with the test :)
     
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    churnlikebutter Newbie

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    Bump. Any help?
     
    churnlikebutter, May 18, 2015
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    GenTechPC Company Representative

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    The AutoCAD 2015 trial is not available for download anymore, there is only 2016 and the benchmark states that 2016 is not supported at the moment.
     
    GenTechPC, May 18, 2015
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    Nooooo! Oh, wow, that sucks. Thank you for looking into it. They probably just changed it... I just downloaded it last week. :/

    Relegated to a dell.
     
    churnlikebutter, May 18, 2015
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    Maybe it's because due to the changes of Newtabmode on 2015 has been replaced by Startmode in AutoCAD 2016. I can change the starmode to 0 but the benchmark file still looking for Newtabmode.

    I can still set SDI to 1 but without benchmark been able to recognize that Startmode 0 IS the Newtabmode 0 it just won't run.
     
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    churnlikebutter, Apr 14, 2016
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    Yes I can, however, I'll have to test it with the latest model GS72 Skylake platform.
     
    GenTechPC, Apr 15, 2016
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