Dell :: Hybrid SLI .. The Definitive Comparison
May 10, 2009
it seems alot of people don't seem to understand the workings under SLI and have simply decided that the Hybrid SLI found in their laptop is pretty much useless.. While there is some truth to this it isn't completely true.
As those of you with SLI on your desktops will know, SLI is largely based on 2 things. Game support, and driver support.
By game support I mean some games will darn right refuse to work properly with SLI enabled. Some games may also work with SLI enabled, but show no clear benefits with SLI turned on. And linking in, nVidia have to make profiles for each game in their drivers. If you're up for tweaking it is possible to add your own profiles using nHancer, but then again, how many of you would be willing to do that?
So what I plan on doing, is benchmarking several games to give people an insight into the workings of SLI, what games support it, what games don't, what games need tweaking.. and hopefully based on this you can decide whether it's worth it or not for you in particular .....
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Jul 29, 2009
The Definitive Guide to Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue Throttling Issues v2.0
Credit Due to DarkSilver, ATG, Sgogeta4, and Unclewebb
This thread is specifically designed to put an end to the multitude of threads about people asking why their Aspire 6920G, 6930G, 6935G, 8920G, or 8930G is experiencing lackluster performance in gaming.
What Causes It
We’re not 100% certain, but through a process of elimination, we believe there are two possible causes:
•That a sensor on the motherboard is going haywire, reading internal temperatures entirely wrong. As a result, the system’s BIOS believes the CPU’s temperature is reaching dangerous levels when it’s really well within operating limits, and causes a thermal throttle to be activated. This halves the CPU’s performance until the temperatures are returned to what the system perceives as safe levels.
•It could also be potentially linked to a ridiculously low setting in the BIOS and not the fault of a motherboard sensor – this was refuted by my travel to Acer’s Canadian headquarters, where a stock 6920G was shown to operate just fine, with no throttling whatsoever. That being said, given the large number of users affected, it's still a possibility.....................
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Oct 19, 2008
My step-mom is looking into these Dell Studio Hybrid models to replace her old desktop. Any feelings out there on these things?
I'm pretty much a laptop guy but she isn't really concerned with performance as much as how it looks. Basically just needs it for photoshop and to watch DVDs.
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Sep 13, 2009
I'm currently running 190.40 drivers for my GeForce 9500M on my SXPS13. Before updating to 190.40, clicking the little green NVIDIA tray icon that shows what mode you're running in allowed me to choose my mode manually through the use of two radio buttons.
Currently, I can only switch between "Boost Performance" and "Save Power" by switching power profiles in Windows. Is there some way I can get back those radio buttons without having to go back to the older driver?
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Oct 12, 2009
Does anyone know whether a 1340 with a 210m GPU has the same hybrid SLI setup as the 9500 configuration, or is it a more conventional discrete GPU that's always active?
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Feb 18, 2009
The Nvidia hybrid SLI settings has disappeared from the vista power settings. I've tried and reinstall motherboard and graphics card drivers but it did not help. How do I get it again?
Are there other programs to switch on and off for hybrid sli?
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Sep 27, 2009
I've had my laptop since June and have not been impressed with the graphics performance of the Hybrid SLI setup.
I installed nHancer for the first time and started tinkering around with stuff and noticed that some of the games I was disappointed in weren't utilizing both GPUs by enabling the SLI Load Balancing Graph (Vsync has to be disabled for this to work).
Upon further tinkering I noticed that for both GPUs to be used, the game profiles had to be modified with "Hybrid SLI mode" set to "1". Thought I'd share this information so everyone can try and get the most out of their computer.
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Jul 13, 2007
are there any 512mb or higher video cards that work with the inspiron e1505? the reason why is i noticed that with the hightest resultion gives you choppy results when using media center (the dvds play fine) also aparently there are hybrid drives out
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where do you buy them? iwould one of them would solve my video card issue.
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Apr 11, 2010
Has anyone got the hybrid to work on a clean installed W7?
I cannot switch from speed to stamina without rebooting.
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Jan 30, 2009
Anyone have any luck being able to enable their Nvidia card within Linux? I could care less about trying to switch... But I have spent some serious time trying to do it and unfortunately you cannot just turn off the intel graphics card in the BIOS..
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Sep 8, 2009
it would be possible to switch my 160gb 5400rpm hybrid ssd hard drive from my sz650 to my sz440, which currently has 80gb 4200rpm hdd? would it be worth it in speed/capacity? i dont see a problem w/ doing this but wanted to get confirmation.
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Jan 11, 2009
if the 8530p has hybrid graphics, or is it only a ati 3650 without an intel integrated?
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Jan 16, 2009
THIS INFORMATION IS PRIMARILY FOR THE OLD VGNZ MODEL Z, THOUGH MOST OF IT STILL APPLIES TO THE Z11.
LATEST OFFICIAL VIDEO DRIVERS:
Old VGN-Z Model
Official Windows 7 64bit [Nvidia: 187.35 | Intel: 1872] from Sony
Official Windows 7 32bit [Nvidia: 186.84 | Intel: 1872] from Sony
New VPC-Z11 Model
Official Windows 7 64bit [Nvidia: 188.80 | Intel: 2021] from Sony
LATEST UNOFFICIAL VIDEO DRIVERS:
Unofficial Windows 7 64bit [Nvidia: 191.66 | Intel: 1994 ] A test driver originally put together by me with 1994 added by Dreamliner.
UNOFFICIAL OPTIMUS DRIVERS FOR VPC-Z11 MODEL VAIO Z
There has been success getting Optimus to work on the new Vaio Z. There are currently boot/sleep/hibernate issue & Nvidia Confidential overlay text issues.
PLEASE POST TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING THREADS FOR OPTIMUS.
Notebook Review Thread
My LaptopVideo2Go Thread with Modified INFs..........
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Apr 15, 2009
how it looks and it the quality good?
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Nov 20, 2014
band new Y50 with these on board NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2GBIntel Core i7 4700HQ (2.40GHz)8GB Memory 1TB HDD 8GB SSDWhen I got the machine it was partitioned into two drives: Windows8_OS (C 887GB Lenovo (D 24.9GB
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I dont see any SSD drive in the eplorer nor in the Computer Management utility. I would like to understand what is stored on my SSD and how to best utilize this for best performance. I may want to run games/OS/applications from the SSD to get that quick read times.
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Mar 17, 2010
how to fix it? Basically when on Stamina Mode, sometimes the graphics will get minor graphical glitches. This doesn't happen immediatly, after like 1-2 hours of use.
The glitches are not usually that bad, can still work within it if wanted.
However in Speed Mode, it never glitches.
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Mar 11, 2009
We are trying to set up the automatic load for our new X240 laptops. But when we do, the process sees the drive as a sepearate 16GB drive 0 and a 500GB drive 1. Windows 7 doesn't load well on a 16GB drive.
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Our M93p desktops also have a hybrid drive, but all our tools and the os loading process just sees 1 500GB drive 0.
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why that might be different? Is maybe the drive controller bad, since it's reporting 2 drive instead of one?
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Jun 17, 2009
I happen to have two M4400's on me, both have the RGB-LED. Figured I'd take some pictures to compare the bleed on both backlight's.
The one on the left was delivered this week and the one on the right was delivered two months ago.
Curious, other CCFL or RGB-LED M4400 owners, do you find your bleed patterns similar?
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Jan 8, 2010
How does a 17.3" HD+ (1600 x 900) TrueLife WLED (LC-WLED) 900p screen compare with a 17'' WUXGA CCFL(1920x1200) TFT TrueLife screen?
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May 11, 2009
dell is sending me the led instead of the ccfl i have now so i want to know the differences....
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Oct 31, 2009
I recently took the plunge and purchased a new Studio XPS 16. I searched online to find images comparing the size difference between the two without any luck. Now that I have both systems in my posession, I took a few quick shots for any interested in seeing the physical difference. You'll have to forgive the fingerprints as I didn't bother to wipe either down.
With the configurations I have, the weights are 5.8lbs for the M1530 and 6.6lbs for the XPS 16.
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Jul 29, 2009
I'm looking for performance comparisons between a Studio 15 and a XPS16 with the same 2.66ghz processor and same amount of RAM.
I know the XPS16 takes "faster" ram and now is available with a better video card, but I curious as to the performance difference.
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Jan 1, 2009
XPS M1530 GPU/CPU/HDD Temperature Survey/Benchmark
Please use this thread to post your XPS M1530 temperatures according to the guidelines of this survey
I take no responsibility for any damaged caused to equipment, as far as I know, this process is fairly safe with faultless components -
please take care not to overheat your computers components needlessly - exit the stress test applications immediately if you are worried about strange readings.
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Feb 2, 2009
Have any of you been able to find any pics of size comparisons between these two nb's?
I tried punching the numbers into sizeasy but I'm not 100% certain that I had the correct dimensions, would be great to see an actual photo.
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Jan 19, 2009
How would the build quality compare with both of these notebooks?
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Apr 9, 2009
As the title say's,the fastest core duo against the second to slowest choice,as there seem's a fair number of people here who play game's on their M4400's,I thought this might be interesting to some.
Empire total war,I'm sure still carry's out control instruction's much better with the X9100 despite framerates being pretty much identical.....a bit hard to tell as the game AI is soo buggy....
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Nov 22, 2008
***I should also note that some of the close screen shots are a little blurry. I wasnt using a camera stand and taking shots with no flash. So like in the sunset shot, dont compare resolution cause the m6400 pic looks blurrier than the 9100 pic. Just compare color and brightness. Sorry, I just noticed this hours later *
Ok, Ive taken some side by side pics.
Old laptop, Dell 9100 15" about 4.5 years old.
New Laptop - M6400 Covet
As you can see, for me at least, buying this 17" isnt much bigger than the
15" Im used to. Ok, yeah. I wish the power supply wasnt so big but I will still carry this daily with me to work.
I have a backpack by Spire that I LOVE. They make a sleeve that fits this laptop fine and though the backpack I bought isnt SUPPOSED to fit that big of a sleeve, it actually works.
I highly recommend Spire backpacks. My old one for the 9100 has been carried almost Daily for over 4 years with good weight in it and it still really seems like new esp in the strength department.
I am no expert in video card and monitor stuff as Im an audio guy, so I havent tweaked anything with these screens. They are just both set to highest brightness level and as they came. Im not sure how "fair" it is to compare these since one is an LED screen and one is not and right there, you should expect one to be "colder" and one "warmer".
The LED on the m6400 is definately more saturated with color and way brighter. In whites, my old one looks a bit yellowish though it doesnt really show on the pics.
I tried to so some comparison glossy vs matte (9100) screen. Yep, the Covet is glossy as it IS glass after all, but nope, it doesnt bother me a bit. My first glossy screen too.
I tried to show the screen at angles but both these screens seem to have a wide angle range for viewing.
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Jun 18, 2009
I would like to see the WUXGA CCFL Next to the RGB LED Screen. Anyone know if anyone did a comparision?
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Nov 18, 2009
Quadro FX 3800M
http://ven.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761_la.html
GRAPHICS FEATURES NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
Mobile Platform Generation Calpella
CUDA™ Cores 128
Memory Size 1GB
Memory Type GDDR3
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth 64GB/sec.
Platform Form factor 17"
Max Power Consumption (Graphics Sub-System) 100W
OpenGL 3.2
Shader Model 4.0
DirectX 10.1
PCI-E Generation 2
PowerMizer Power Management 9.0
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Feb 25, 2010
I decided to do some investigating about the differences between them. What sparked this curiosity was the consistently higher temperatures I got with my new CW. Turns out the cooling design is a little different.
Not the best pics but hey this science project was done at 3am
New on the left, old on the right:
Old CW:
New CW:
And a pic side by side just for kicks
I think I'll be adding some thermal paste to my new CW. which one? I gotta research how to do all that stuff.
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