Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge

Did you notice the M4400 has one of the brightest screens? I noticed that today in a group study for CS finals, other people have really dark and unsaturated screens! And the backlit keyboard is sick, everyone loves it.

 

well it is around 350 nits vs other laptops around 200-250nits.

the most noticeable thing for me i think is that not only do other screens look dim, but they also look yellowish!
CS finals? whats that a counter strike competition??

 

Computer science...lol.

 

thats worse......

you nerd

well....qualified nerd anyway

 

Lol it's required as core curriculum for EE majors.

EE = electrical engineering.

Nerdy yeah, but all the kids have trouble w/ it, its kind of funny when I explain to them functions are like just f(x) in math and they go "ooooh", when we go to OOP next semester I will even crack up more.

 

*covers ears* nehnehnehnehnehneheeeeeee

im good at math, but hate it.....bit of a let down to my mum's side of the family i suppose, my cousin has 3 postgraduate degrees in theoretical physics with astrophysics, and financial economics (oxford AND cambridge :|)......another relative used to work for the pentagon and NASA and is a professor at CALTECH.

although i have to say i am jealous that he got to blow stuff up and rent a concorde/use a space shuttle to run his experiments on.....

needless to say, they're all very disappointed in me

 

Thought I would post some heat test results for my new machine. I've had it for about two weeks now and have had a chance to test it pretty well. For stats of my machine, see page 78 of this thread, post #772.

I ran 4 copies of CPU Burn in 1.01 (so I could max out all 4 cores) and my Min/Max results from HWMonitor were as follows:

THM_ - 50c/91c
Core 1 - 42c/83c
Core 2 - 42c/83c
Core 3 - 44c/85c
Core 4 - 44c/84c

I ran rthdribl GPU Burn for about 10 minutes until the temps maxed out. The min/max was:

GPU - 51c/84c

I haven't done any disk i/o tests, but the min/max for my HDD were 38c/42c.

I'm running BIOS A09, and withing a few seconds of stopping the process in question the fans started to slow down. I didn't see any downclocking, but I haven't run these tests for more than 20 minutes. Then again, the temps maxed out within about 1 minute and didn't really vary from that point on.

So do these temps appear normal? Seems like things are working ok.

Now... if only I didn't have that dead pixel!

 

Wow I just ordered my i7 build's HDD, backlit logitech keyboard and LG 22X DVD burner. I'm already in the process of leaving the notebook world. Tomorrow I purchase some ultrafast triple channel Corsair DDR3-1333 RAM. Then it's mobo, i7 920 CPU, V8 heatsink, case, power, speakers, 24" LCD and finally GTX295 when it releases Jan.



Putting the M4400 up for bid on this forum tomorrow. If that fails, eBay.

 

u gonna ebay ur m4400 and buy a smaller notebook or what

 

I have very very very old Dell notebook I will carry just on the days I have C++ lab, so yeah I'm gonna feel lame w/ it cause this thing is pretty high class compared to the old one, which, is not.

But I'm going to do it for Half-Life 2: E3 @ 2560 X 1600 max'd settings, something I can't do on Half-Life 2: E2 or even come close to on here (1440x900). My love for that game is making me build godzilla.

(I'm going to play other things too lol, probably gonna kill Crysis WH w/ the new card and GTA4 w/ the OC'd 920.)