Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

dude, WoW runs on a basic card...

i raid on my Studio 17 easily...

i can play on my old Inspiron 8500...

it all depends on your setup.

 

I use applications 3d for 10 years. Geforce are variations of the same chip that the quadro. They are not exactly equal. To spend money in a Quadro for games is the major stupidity of the world.

Nycei before answering I recommend to you to study engineering hardware. Do not spend your money in a computer in which you have not idea. Buy an inspiron or xps.

Benchmark is a bull****, install Maya or Xsi and uses a geforce and a quadro in a serious project (not only to draw a sphere or cube) and you tell me.


permka excuse my english, i´m spanish

 

Chipset is Intel Q43 Express (a desktop chipset actually).
I found no info about the FireWire controller, but I found that the cardbus controller is a Ricoh chip (R5C847) which on Ricoh site is stated to also offer FireWire, so that might be it.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/wsm6400/en/setup/D446C0MR.pdf
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/wsm6400/en/sm/index.htm
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/product_support/product_support_central?~ck=ln&c=us&l=en&lnki=0&s=gen&SystemID=PREC_M6400
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=PREC_M6400&os=WW1&osl=EN
http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c847/index.html

Dragos

 

Excuse you. You come here to troll much? I could bore you with how much I know about computers. Go away troll. You're the one who can't prove a statement you made.

 

Yeah see, they just state how quadro is for 3d work & geforce is for games. Well duh. The question isn't Will WoW run? Of course it will. But at full graphics settings, with zero difference to a Geforce? I can run it on a sh1tbox too, with a lot of stuff turned down. The question is What shader effects are going to glitch or be left out altogether with the Quadro, since its focus is OpenGL. How much of a FPS hit would you take? 100+ fps on a Geforce but what, down to 30 for Quadro? Worse? I'm thinking only way to find out is to get one & send it back if it ends up puking all over itself.

I want more than "it'll run fine", I want the definition of fine. I want FPS & specifics on what if anything gets left out with an OpenGL card. Shouldn't be that hard to test.

Shame the brick & mortar Dell stores closed, would love to be able to see this rig in person first.

 

Did anyone get any info from Dell about why Blu-Ray is not offered, on either the "regular" M6400 or the Covet, when they offer it on other models? Will it eventually be an option? Seems odd they would not put this in their highest end unit, and Lenovo does offer it on the W700...

Anyone seen the RGBLED next to a more conventional laptop display? Differences? How bright is it - usable in daylight outdoors? (Shaded obviously - I know it's not a sunlight-viewable display...)

 

Exactly, my Quadro FX 770M gets 6023 on 3DMark06 and destroys Half Life 2 on max settings (68-71FPS), I'm pretty sure the 3700Monster will over-pwn a game like WoW. Anyone arguing against that doesn't know what he/she is talking about. Quadro's are not just for work just as Geforce is not just for gaming. One is not better than the other for any purpose. A Geforce 9800 GTX+ will probably destroy a Quadro NVS 285 in AutoCAD 2009, agreed? And a Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB RAM will own a Geforce 9600GT in Crysis, no? It just means you can't compare series to series for purposes. You have to compare card to card.

 

The answer is very simple, and has been given here a couple of times already: The Quadro cards will perform exactly identical to GeForce cards in any games, period. This has been proven over and over again: Within the margin of error of benchmarks and FPS stats in actual games, there is no difference between the two types of cards, given identical drivers. The Quadros will perform better for professional OpenGL applications, though. Nothing more needs to be said.

 

Blu-Ray drives are still rare for the 9.5mm height of the SATA E-Series drives. It's only a matter of time before they are available, and since the drive bay is modular, you can very easily swap it out.

Greg

 

I do not know if this will answer your question, but I am linking the benchmarks of Quadro 3600 and 8800GTX from Notebookcheck.net. (Quadro 3600 is the workstation version of 8800GTX, replaced respectively by 3700 and 9800)
(Notebookcheck has detailed benchmark information about almost any mobile GPU that was released the last 5, or more years)

for the Quadro 3600
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-FX-3600M.8834.0.html
for the GeForce 8800GTX
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-8800M-GTX.8836.0.html

the differences aren't that huge... and the basic technical details look identical...

@superloco: there is no need to excuse yourself for your english; at least not to me!!! (English is not for me either my native language). It is just that, in my personal opinion, one card is better than the other in different tasks and it is not a point of being good or bad. And it was on this point that I wanted to argue.