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    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jeffreybaks, Oct 12, 2010.

  1. jeffreybaks

    jeffreybaks Notebook Deity

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    What kinda 3dmark06/ 3dvantage scores are people able to get with there z11/12/13? What kinda temps also while gaming? What about futuremark, what kinda temps are we seeing post? Does any one use a cooler with there sonys? Lastly how much battery does the i7 620 eat up compared to the others? How long can you game on battery also? Thanks for answering any questions I have brought up. I realize all these have been thoroughly gone over but Id like to know some more opinions of others, thanks!

    Id also like to know if there is going to be any ati 6xxx cards ever in sony's z line or a new geforce 4xx card or any video card for that matter.
     
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  2. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    I believe the Z line will exclusively use Nvidia parts, unless otherwise announced. But an upgrade in the future to a 4xx series card is inevitable. Also, I believe the GT330m gets about 5900 to 6500 in 3dmark06 depending on the OC.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Oct 12, 2010
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    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    A demanding game with a full charged standard battery not more than an hour - you can play minesweeper for about 4-5 hours depending on your display brightness.
     
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  4. jeffreybaks

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    Interesting only an hour..I want to be able to game on the go, I thought it might be some where near the m11x even though it uses a ulv processor.
     
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  5. H.A.L. 9000

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    Even the M11x gets poor battery life with the discrete graphics (GT335m) enabled. The M11x gets it's battery life from Optimus and the Intel HD/4500MHD, depending on which revision it is. Where the Z has a more powerful processor, it also has a less powerful graphics card by a good bit. The M11x has a less powerful processor, but a much more powerful discrete card. So they kinda balance each other.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Oct 12, 2010
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  6. runavaio

    runavaio Notebook Guru

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    PCMark Vantage x64:
    11158 PcMarks
    5644 Memories suite
    9002 Gaming suite
    11097 Music suite
    10460 Communication Suite
    12345 Productivity suite
    17717 HDD Test Suite

    NO O/C in this run.

    3DMark 06:

    GT330M@575 and 92 processes running:

    3DMark Score 6226 3DMarks
    SM2.0 Score 2502
    HDR/SM3.0 Score 2314
    CPU Score 3092
    Game Score N/A
    GT1 - Return To Proxycon 22,088 FPS
    GT2 - Firefly Forest 19,610 FPS
    CPU1 - Red Valley 0,992 FPS
    CPU2 - Red Valley 1,542 FPS
    HDR1 - Canyon Flight 20,813 FPS
    HDR2 - Deep Freeze 25,466 FPS
    Fill Rate - Single-Texturing 2296,243 Mtexels/s
    Fill Rate - Multi-Texturing 8982,555 Mtexels/s
    Pixel Shader 216,300 FPS
    Vertex Shader - Simple 228,900 Mvertices/s
    Vertex Shader - Complex 82,863 Mvertices/s
    Shader Particles (SM3.0) 59,952 FPS
    Perlin Noise (SM3.0) 62,947 FPS

    Battery gaming? No clue, but I guess around one hour could be right.

    So far, brightness and GT330m are a good combination to drain battery fast.

    The alienware m11x has a very dim screen (and smaller and crappy and...) and although the gt335m is worth envying, its ULV processors are not.

    So if you only want it for gaming, the alienware sounds like a wiser purchase: half the cost!

    Although overall, the m11x is no match to the vaio Z, neither it is its price.
     
    runavaio, Oct 12, 2010
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  7. Purehazard

    Purehazard Notebook Evangelist

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    i5-520m, 2GB RAM. No OC. 3DMark06 - 6216.
     
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