New M6500 Discussion Thread

You can easily do without it. If dell needs to get onto your PC during a serevice call they can direct you to a support page that will load software for them to remote into your PC if needed.

 

How is this possible?

ATI FirePro M7740
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?cpu=FirePro+M7740

Quadro FX 3800M
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?cpu=Quadro+FX+3800M

Seems that the M7740 is ranked higher, but then why Dell gives the 3800M for an extra $1,000?

 

Hi aka.Flux,


NoteBookCheck has Nvidia 3800M above FirePro M7740;
I think it is depends on how is doing the testing, and how reliable they are.


It does seem odd thou, interesting.

 

Customers set the specifics of what they need. Nvidia sets the price for the part to Dell. Dell sets the price based on what Nvidia charges. The end price difference becomes one of the factors customers must consider when choosing a video card. The next piece of information for making that evaluation will come when Lenovo releases the w701 that also has the 2800/3800 option. it will then be possible to compare the upsell costs of the same card between two resellers. At that point it will be easier to answer the question of why Dell charges what it does for the card.

Assuming a 3 year lifecycle, the end user will have to decide whether the extra $27 a month for the card is justified by increased productivity. If you were using the Quadro-only h.264 encoding accelerator to encode videos, any hours saved would allow for more projects to be completed in those hours. Assuming 1 hour of time were recovered per week, the user could recover 1/2 of a workday per month minimum. This would mean that if you made more than $7 per hour, it would be worthwhile to purchase a $1000 video card.

Other's reasons may differ. Maybe they just like games with physx and think Alienware is too garish for their tastes.

 

aka.Flux,



And when you have venders like Autodesk recommending the dell M6500 along
with the Nvidia 3800m the price will be high.


And the Nvidia 3800M is the best card out there...



YouTube: Autodesk Technical Evangelist

 

Hi mannyA,

on http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html the benchmark does not seem complete for the the Nvidia 3800M...

We did some test on Autocad products (Autocad 2010, Revit 2010 and 3DS) in Paris with a Silver M6500 (FirePro) and an Orange M6500 (Nvidia) and we did not see any difference (what my IT guys said to me)...

 

It all depends on what you want from the card. For a bit of gaming there is little difference, unless you favourite game requires advanced PhysX support which the 3800M does a little better.

For professional use if your application supports CUDA and not ATI's equivalent (such as TMPGENC in my case) and you use it a lot then the Nvidia card is better.

Also some believe Nvidia's linux binary driver to be a lot better than ati's.

If the Nvidia card wasn't obligatory on the COVET i'd have taken the ATI card and saved $1000

 

Sorry posted some complete s*it

 

I was about to comment on that post, but you were a bit faster....

 

what screen did you order?

For us dell just doesnt ant to deliver. Its almost impossible for us to order a dell laptop with the right specs (1920x1***) screen... They just wont or are not able to deliver them. (Studio 17, precision doesnt matter)