1) In a default system (not overclocked) what are the temperatures of the sytem/CPU, and also the hard-drives, when under full load (but NOT when playing games. I'm not a gamer, and will thus be disabling/underclocking the 6800Go as much as possible) and using an AC power supply (ie. not the battery).

A fantastic realtime system performance statistics report of your computer can be found using SiSoft Sandra Lite (free).

And the freeware DTemp shows you your hard-drive temperatures.

2) Figures for SiSoft Sandra benchmarking of the a) CPU Arithmetic (Dhrystone and Whetstone), and b) CPU MultiMedia (ALU and FPU) would be great to know, too...

3) Does the laptop come with a FULL version of Windows XP, or is it simply a "recovery" type OS disc?

4) Is the fan loud or obtrusive/annoying?

5) Is anyone using the 12-cell battery instead of the standard 8-cell?

6) Can I manually swap out the Intel 2200b/g wireless card for the Intel 2915b/g version?

7) Lastly, is the CPU itself over-clockable? (ignoring the GPU again).

Cheers if anyone can answer all that lot.

>Bump<

8) Would the running time of the laptop be increased noticeably when throttling back the GeForce 6800 as much as possible when in battery mode? Would the extra running time be dramatic, or negligable, when compared with running the 6800 normally (in battery mode)?

2) dhrystone: 6.862
whtestone: 2.228/2.850
ALU: 15.270
FPU: 16.820

3) mine included a full version of XP Home and a recovery disc. I haven't used them though, once I checked everything was working fine I wiped the hard disc and installed my stuff.

4) absolutely not. I can't hear it unless I lean very close to it, and with my "old" tower one meter away the 3438 is virtually silent.

8) don't know it it's just me but after the last driver upgrade I am missing the throttling option on the Nvidia control panel.

3) Mine came with XP Home only on recovery disc. Maybe its possible to use the serial number provided with a fresh install of full version XP Home, Dunno

Much appreciated, lads!

I asked my local retailer (uk.insight.com) and she said:

"The version of Windows installed on these machines is a pre-installed OEM version of Windows that will come with Fujitsu drivers and utilities. There will be recovery facilities if a reinstall is required."

So, is that a full, flexible XP version with the drivers added seperately, or is it all a single pre-fabricated (less flexible) version?

Ideally I'd like to do a fresh XP install and configure it to exactly how I'd like it (for studio music production/technology use).

My bad, it is a recovery disc of Windows XP Home, plus another cd with drivers and utilities.

Can anyone with a 2GHz M3438G run the SiSoft Sandra benchmarks please?

And a SuperPi benchmark too, if possible, please?

SuperPi

I just wondered about the Sandra benchmarks as this guy has a Dell i9300 with 2.1GHz CPU and 1Gb Ram and is getting great results:
http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...18#post1152618

(2.1GHz Dell i9300 with 1Gb Ram:
Dhrystone-8952
Whetstone-2895/3721)

Thanks

I'd sooner take the 3438 over the Dell. Dells are hellishly expensive and I've heard bad reports about the screen quality etc.

Let's see some of those benchmarks, okey. My bencmarks:

3DMARK05: 3691
PCMARK05: 3016
Aquamark3: 54,073

Heh, getting a bit aggravated already about the subject...

Sorry, I would post some if I had any of those programs to run, still no broadband, 31 is supposed to be the day...

Hello, I have posted these questions in other thread, but I post them here too (just in case). First I have to say that I am from Spain and my English is not as good as I would like to. Sorry.
Well I have bought the 3438 (M760-2Gb, 2x1024Mb Ram, 2x80 Hard Disks, GeForce 6800-256Mb). I have read through all the thread, and as my English is not very good, I would like to ask some questions:
1- Are the drivers included in the Fujitsu CD enough to use the notebook for everything, or is it better to download any others? what drivers would you reccomend?
2- Is it possible to use the Xp CD included in the package to format the hard disk, and to reinstall the OS?
3- If I format the hard disk, do I lose any program or feature installed in the notebook (perhaps InstantOn)? If so, is it possible to download to reinstall them?
Thank you very much.

My benchmark results:

M3438 @ 2.0Ghz 2x60Gb HD 1 gig ram with Raid0, 7.8.1 Graphics drivers

3dMark2005: 3700-3718
Sandra Soft Harddisk test: 55 Mb/s

Maximum Temp seen playing Halflife was 76c

Hello,

i have a problem for a fujitsu siemens laptop model M3438G.

my friend bought it used and the recovery cd was not included.

i tried to setup my win xp home eng but it was not posible to make the soundcard tu run, i spend almost 30 hours on it and i m sure only the original recovery cd by purchase of the laptop can serve my problem.

i tried, read in a several boards, i followed the setup instructions of FS, tried my own ideas, but all did not work out.

i saw a lot of difrent results,
once i have sound at sp2 setup before windows start, but after no sound again.

what i need is a downloadlink or any other help.

best regards

cc

Here are all drivers for 3438:

http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/c...ort/index.html

Just to leave my contribution:

3dMark2005: 4170
Idle GPU temperature: 50ºC
Heavy load GPU temperature (after 2 hours of playing Battlefield 2 with maximum settings, 8x Anti-Alising, 16x Anisotropic Filthering and Super Sampling On): 82ºC

SuperPI (1M calculation): 37 seconds
Idle CPU temperature: 29ºC
Heavy load CPU temperature (after almost 2 hours of video enconding): 50ºC

To all of those who have this system, and are having problems with the temperatures, all I can say is: replace the thermal pads as soon as possible! I have recently replaced my factory CPU to the one I currently have, and since I had to remove the heatsinks to replace the CPU, I took the time to replace the GPU's thermal pad with Artic Silver 5 thermal paste. That was a big mistake, as I realized (with the help of member Ice-Tea), that the GPU's core and the heatsink surface have a significant gap, and the thermal paste does not make contact between both of them. To make a long story short: I ended up having to purchase and install a thermal pad (wich are thicker than thermal paste) and I can now say it was worth all the troubles: my GPU's temperature had significant drops: idle, it lowered 5ºC, and at full charge (playing Battlefield 2 with maximum settings, 8x Anti-Alising, 16x Anisotropic Filthering and Super Sampling on) the temperature droped 10º (!). This allowed me to raise my previous overclocks to 370 MHz/ 670 MHz, and it stills run at very nice temperatures (keep in mind that the M3438 is famous for running at insane temperatures). So the logical conclusion is that the factory thermal pads are terrible. Replace them with better ones and dramaticly lower that heat!

Cheers!