New M6500 Discussion Thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT067bm3cAM

Really hope this doesn't happen to mine when it arrives or I'll be pissed! Especially after a month of waiting.

 

I am to busy to do the test, but would love to see the results.

I didn’t relies there were so many Revit users on the thread, excellent ok
come on we need to heir the good and bad experiences with Revit on your
M6500.

Wow it seems like we can start are own users group. We can call it
“The M6500 Revit users group” I know that a lot of people out there
are wondering if Revit works on the M6500.

List your system specks:

My specks will be:

WUXGA 17” RGB LED LCD
i7-920
NVIDIA FX 3800M
8GB 1600MHz RAM

And so on

Thank You,

 

If that happens, you call dell and send it back. I think dell is working on this that’s why everyone is waiting so long

 

Hi giannini,

In Revit's Options on the Graphics Tab, do you have Use
Hardware Accecleration (Direct3D) check? and Use Anti-Aliasing for 3D views Check?

 

I think you are right and that is a limitation of Revit against 3DS. I read something interesting about Revit 2009 http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=658591.

I will wait the return of Jun Austria to go further is that test, but I did not find in the BIOS where I can disable multicore. Could you please show it to me? I fund in Performance, the Intel Speed but I am quite sure that it is not what you mentionned... and in Revit there is no option where you can choose about the processor...

 

I will wait the return of June before to give more details but for the moment I can inform you that it was an interior rendering with:
Quality "High"
Resolution "Printer" at 150DPI
Lighting "Interior:Artificial Only"

I did 2 tests:
- the first one with Normal Process (20min39)
- a second test with High Priority (20min15)
Both were at 50% CPU and I think the reason is the one Razibus gave earlier... I used the Performance Profile as a Power Plan.

I think 3DS and Revit are quite similar for rendering but 3DS is still more developped than Revit (for commercial reasons)...

 

My first experience was worst than that! and after more than one month of waiting!

When I unpacked the boxes and plug the power sector, I pressed the ON Button and nothing was appearing on the screen! but the keyboard was on...

I waited few minutes before to stop the laptop. I rebooted several time to be able to see finally something on the screen...

I called the technical support and they will replace the motherboard and the graphic card. Apparently I am not the only one in that case. The problem is that it will take several weeks to have that replacement as the parts are still missing...

Today, I need to try several times before to log on in Windows.

I took a video of that memorable moment and will put it online when I will have time.

I wish you good luck and really hope that your system will be perfect...

 

My specifications are :
DΞLL M6500 Covet version | i7-920XM 2.00GHZ 8MB | Quadro FX 3800M 1.0GB DDR3 | 256GB SSD x2 RAID0 | 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1333MHZ (PC3 10700)


As architect, I am trying to learn about Revit and never had the time... I am using Autocad, 3DS, Archicad, ADT, Sketchup,... and really hope to be able to use Revit one day as I think that new version is working finally (the first version of Revit was very limitated).

 

Yes I did.

 

Giannini,

Razibus beat me to the explanation. Based on your test and mine, theres only 6% difference between 820 and 920. You dont need to tweak the M6500. We just have to wait for the next release of Revit.

If ever they revamp the rendering engine, I believed the difference is the same.


My Spec. and highest(processor) they can offer in my region:

Intel® Core™ i7-820QM Processor (8M Cache, 1.73GHz)
8GB (4x2GB) 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM Memory
320GB SATA (7200RPM) Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive(now change to intel SSD)
2nd 160GB SATA (7200RPM) Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive
17' WUXGA LED LCD
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3800M Video Card