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Dell 9 Cell battery life

post #1 of 12
4/8/05 at 4:37am
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Hi,

Just received my new Inspiron 9300 WUXG with NVidia Geforce and 7200rpm HDD. Despite having the 9 cell battery with extended life, mine gives 3 hours from 100% charge. It estimates this in the power meter and I've timed it as accurate. This seems poor compared to other reviews I've read of Dell 9300.

I have seen people say they get 4 hours from the 6 cell battery.

How long do you get?
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post #2 of 12
4/8/05 at 4:56am
3 hrs on 9 cell nvidia 6800
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post #3 of 12
4/8/05 at 11:55am
Hmm...I haven't seen the other reviews, but how were those systems configured.

What I mean is how were the power/screen settings?

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post #4 of 12
4/8/05 at 12:05pm
it all depends on what your doing but 3 hours with doing stuff and maybe having screen on a brighter setting is really good
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post #5 of 12
4/9/05 at 5:46pm
Im wondering something. Since the "only" difference between the 9200 and 9300 is the graphics card. And that the bettery life is of 5hrs and 3hrs respectively, then it is logical to assume that the graphics card is the component responsible for that difference.

Would it make a difference if I were to downclock the graphics card to a very low frequency while not running video games (ie: browsing the web, working on Visual Studio, etc.)?
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post #6 of 12
4/9/05 at 6:10pm
routrout i think what youre saying would work, but is it possible to overclock or download notebooks? if so, id like to know how
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post #7 of 12
4/11/05 at 3:47pm
My notebook has a Radeon 9600, which normally runs at 300/200. It automatically downclocks itself to 100/100 when on battery, and the Omega drivers for the Radeon card have a way to do it manually.

Don't know if the GF6800 does in the I9300's, but I'm curious as to the answer.

(All notebook processors have had the ability to downclock themselves for a while. Except for those shitty Celerons and P4's.)
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post #8 of 12
4/11/05 at 5:06pm
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Originally Posted by routrout
Im wondering something. Since the "only" difference between the 9200 and 9300 is the graphics card. And that the bettery life is of 5hrs and 3hrs respectively, then it is logical to assume that the graphics card is the component responsible for that difference.

Would it make a difference if I were to downclock the graphics card to a very low frequency while not running video games (ie: browsing the web, working on Visual Studio, etc.)?
This is partly why I put a lesser graphics card in my 9300, the other reason is I didn't buy it to play games.. But I have yet to unplug the thing since I got it, I'll try to do a test now.
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post #9 of 12
4/11/05 at 8:46pm
well I did a quick test. Played a game for about an hour, watched Fever Pitch(was a little better than expected) and just downloaded a few things while surfing the web, doing whatever. All with my 1 gig of memory at capacity the whole time I got about 3 hours and 50 minutes of battery life. Which I think is pretty great. I didn't let the laptop shut off though. As I said earlier I have a 9300 but with a 125MB radeon x300 instead of the nvidia. though I guess most of you want the nvidia so you don't care At full battery life it claims to have 4 hours and 45 minutes left.
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post #10 of 12
4/11/05 at 9:48pm
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Originally Posted by freakin
well I did a quick test. Played a game for about an hour, watched Fever Pitch(was a little better than expected) and just downloaded a few things while surfing the web, doing whatever. All with my 1 gig of memory at capacity the whole time I got about 3 hours and 50 minutes of battery life. Which I think is pretty great. I didn't let the laptop shut off though. As I said earlier I have a 9300 but with a 125MB radeon x300 instead of the nvidia. though I guess most of you want the nvidia so you don't care At full battery life it claims to have 4 hours and 45 minutes left.
Is that with a 6 or 9 cell battery?
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post #11 of 12
4/11/05 at 9:53pm
I also read somewhere around here that you can't really do an accurate battery test until you've broke the battery in for a couple days. Don't quote me on it though.
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post #12 of 12
4/12/05 at 7:07am
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Originally Posted by johare
Is that with a 6 or 9 cell battery?
9 cell
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