precision m6300 with fx3600 benchmarked!

Nice one.

Yeah I'm sitting here with them side by side too, setting it up. They are identical except for that button and they took off the subwoofer, same weight everything, just the guts that are different. Man same basic form factor since 9300, love it.

My Fx3600 should be here next week too. Woohooo!

I do hope they keep the 9300 form factor for these for a while longer--when my m1710 needs replacing, I'd really like to get something that is very comparable in size/weight/form factor, not to mention its docking station.

the setting of core/mem are the same as 8800M (500/799). You should be able to OCing at least 660/980.

Is that the same chassis as the 1710? I am wondering if a motherboard from a M6300 would fit in a 1710? My 1710 needs a motherboard and a replacement cannot be had from Dell at this time. Could I use the stock 7900GTX and 2GHZ cpu in it as well?

Submit your benchmarks here

http://www.notebookforums.com/review...-benchmark.php

You most likely could use your GPU but the CPU has to be replaced for sure. You probably would need a new screen too or at least the M6300's inverter. I just don't think the price fits the upgrade at this point.

overclocked results

Got my fx3600 today. Redid the thermal paste and ran a first test with same clocks as you reds and got 200 3dmarks less even with faster cpu, maybe its a vista 64 thing

I upped the clocks to what quicksilver suggested and it ran fine with no throttle down, 660 / 980

Got 9231 3dmark6 which is on par with the Sager with the 8800 GTX and 45mm 2.8 cpu which Steve just tested (9363) but think that was default clocks on GTX??

Anyway, very happy, I'll load Bioshock and finally finish the game, and use it to test for safe 24/7 overclocks

*While I was waiting for the truck I jury rigged the FX1600 into my M90 (as there is a lug on the plastic palm rest which makes right hand side stick up) and bad news, it doesn't work with the latest bios. The screen just kept cycling colours like a 1980s screensaver. Sorry but too excited to try the fx3600, expect its same bios issue.

Here are the results

Hardware details
General information
Operating system Microsoft Windows Vista
System type 64-bit
Motherboard manufacturer Dell Inc.
Motherboard model 0JM680
Hard drive model WDC WD3200BEVT-00ZCT0 ATA Device
Memory 4096 MB
Slot 1 2047 MB
Slot 2 2047 MB
Slot 3 Empty
Slot 4 Empty
Processor information
Processor Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900
Processor clock 2793 MHz
Physical / logical processors 1 / 2
Multicore 2 Processor Cores
FSB 200 MHz
Display information
Graphics card Generic VGA
Graphics card vendor Unknown Vendor
Graphics memory 512.0
Core clock 0.0
Memory clock 0.0
Driver name NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M --NBF MobileForce Enhanced--
Driver version 7.15.11.7431
Driver status WHQL - Not FM Approved
Linked display adapters No
Result details
Benchmark settings
Program Version 3DMark06 Revision 1 Build 0
Resolution 1280x1024
Full Screen Anti-Aliasing None
Texture Filtering Optimal
Vertex Shader Profile 3_0
Pixel Shader Profile 3_0
Force Full Precision No
Disable Post-processing No
Force Software Vertex Shaders No
Force Software FP Filtering No
Disable Harware Shadow Mapping No
Colour Mipmaps No
Repeat Count Off
Fixed Framerate Off
Main test results
3DMark Score 9231 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4283
SM 3.0 Score 3842
CPU Score 2435
Test Results
Graphics Tests
1 - Return to Proxycon 35.72 FPS
2 - Firefly Forest 35.66 FPS
CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley 0.77 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley 1.24 FPS
HDR Tests
1 - Canyon Flight (SM 3.0) 34.38 FPS
2 - Deep Freeze (SM 3.0) 42.46 FPS
Feature Tests
Fill Rate - Single Texturing N/A
Fill Rate - Multi Texturing N/A
Pixel Shader N/A
Vertex Shader - Simple N/A
Vertex Shader - Complex N/A
Shader Particles (SM 3.0) N/A
Perlin Noise (SM 3.0) N/A
Batch Tests
8 Triangles N/A
32 Triangles N/A
128 Triangles N/A
512 Triangles N/A
2048 Triangles N/A
32768 Triangles N/A

Some photos of the inards and GPU swap

[its my wife's dishtowel in the background ]

Board layout, very familiar; note no sub woofer and new flash module (empty here)



Original paste on the CPU



Both GPU cards beside each other, note the fatter heat pipe on the fx3600



Nvidia made good job of paste on GPU, later replaced with AS5 anyway since opened. Original shown here



The GPU cleaned with iso & coffee filter(I've graduated from using whiskey )



Card installed after ArticSilver5 applied



I've rerun the 3dmark6 benchmark with the same clocks and its solid. I'm going to leave it there for now.

As a comparison, my Fx3500 got ~6300 with a lower screen resolution in the test, so its ~50% better on synthetic benchmarking which is better than I expected

Going to run the vantage test next

Vantage @ 660/980 clocks

3dmark Score P3272 3DMarks
CPU Score 4708
Graphics Score 2970

OK, can load up some games now LOL

awesome info and pics........are you going to try stalker and see what sort of fps/settings it does?

Nice one!

I think Vista64 sucking some performance, but like it. I'll try it on XP pro too soon for fun. Loading stalker/bioshock/cod4

Great pics ZX81. Have fun with the new toy!

C'mon guys,

Submit them here

http://www.notebookforums.com/review...-benchmark.php

What's wrong with posting them in here?.....its pretty much on topic,isn't it.

That link you keep posting seems a very long winded way of posting a quick,informal benchmark.

Btw....why did you close the fraps thread in the dell section........I can't see any fraps thing in your link?

Howdy gerry. Nothing wrong with posting the scores in here...Duke and Shaun put in alota thought and effort creating the benchmark system from the ground up (several months). That's where he's coming from. It would be nice to have these benchies included...