Posts by rkennedy01

Skillz, I wouldn't say that. The HP has some nice characteristics, including a lighter carrying weight and *much* better ergonomics. It's also VPro-compliant, which is a big deal for large scale IT manageability. Finally, those DDR-3...

JimBob, Yeah, it took a while to get this one out the door. First, we had to swap-out the M6400 because the pre-production unit they sent us was flaky as hell.It had the LED display and the slot-load drive, both of which were buggy...

As promised, my formal review of the Precision M6400 has now been published to the InfoWorld Test Center web site. Here's the URL: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/...tations_1.html Note: The review is a head-to-head comparison...

adoniteking, Yes, I will be publishing a formal head-to-head comparison of the M6400 and HP's new 8730w (also a nice machine) for the InfoWorld Test Center. Should be online in about a week. I'll post the link when it goes live. RCK

Achilles & FoulFoot, Think just under 12K in 3D Mark 06 using the stock timings and Dell drivers. Compared to my XPS M1710 - which, with the stock timings on a 7900GS and fairly current drivers - delivers in the mid-high 3K range...

Bokeh, Unfortunately, I don't. Though I will say that the colors on this thing really "pop-out" at you, especially at higher brightness levels. It's way "crisper" than the TrueLife WUXGA screen in my M1710 - easily...

JimBob, Cant' say much about the M1730 since I've never seen it. However, I will say this much about the M6400 vs. my previous "ride" the M1710: 1. RAID + Quad Core + 8GB = blazing overall performance. Vista x64's...

I'm evaluating the normal (black) unit right now. Core 2 Extreme QX9300 (Quad-Core, 2.53GHz, 12MB L2), 8GB RAM, dual-120GB HDD in a RAID 0 config and Quadro FX3700 w/1GB RAM. The unit is a pre-production model, so there are a few...

Fenuxx, I went the whole BIOS flash/GSX route with my other M1710 (Rev.0 card). If that's what it takes I'll stick with the stock 2D clocks and the "crap shoot" when new driver builds come out. Regardless, this is...

Call me stupid, but where do I change these? I see the Core Bus (375MHz) and Memory Bus (507MHz) speeds in nTune but I'm not sure if these are related to 2D performance or just 3D. Is this something I need to do with nBiTor? RCK