EMACHINES M6809 Notebook

[IronBits]

EMACHINES M6809 Notebook - My new toy, should ship tomorrow :D

http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=eMachines_M6809


Specifications
Display: 15.4" Widescreen TFT LCD WXGA (1280 x 800 max. resolution)
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
CPU: Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+ Processor
64-bit Architecture operates at 2.00 GHz
System Bus uses HyperTransport™
Technology operating at 1600 MHz
1 MB L2 Cache
Memory: 512 MB DDR SODIMM (PC 2700) /me hopes 144pin!
Hard Drive: 80 GB HDD
Optical Drives: DVD +/- RW Drive (Write Max: 2.4x DVD+R/RW, 2x DVD-R/RW,
6x CD-R, 10x CD-RW; Reads 24x CD, 8x DVD)
Media Reader: 6-in-1 Digital Media Manger
(Compact Flash, Micro Drive, MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital (SD),
Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro)
Video: ATI® Mobility RADEON™ 9600 with 64 MB Video RAM
Sound: PC2001 Compliant AC '97 Audio
Built-in Stereo Speakers
Modem: 56K* ITU V.92 Fax/Modem
Network: 802.11g Built-in Wireless (up to 54Mbps)
10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet
Pointing Device: Touchpad with Vertical Scroll Zone
Battery: 8-cell Lithium-ion (Li-ion)
Dimensions: 1.6"h x 14.0"w x 10.4"d
Weight: 7.5 lbs. (8.65 total travel weight)
Ports/Other: 4 USB 2.0 ports, 1 IEEE 1394, 1 VGA External Connector, 1 S-Video Out,
Microphone In, Headphone/Audio Out, 1 PCMCIA Slot (Card Bus type I or type II)
Then I find out M$ won't ship XP64 until December, if then... :swear: :bang:

[pfb]

Got one under a different UK brand name (Evesham for those UK'ers) - very nice but does get warm when running on battery power (and speakers are crap)....

(and XP64 should be out mid-June :D)

[IronBits]

Really?!!! How do you like it?

Can you tell me if yours has the 144pin SODIMM memory or not? ;)

[pfb]

Originally posted by IronBits
Really?!!! How do you like it?

Can you tell me if yours has the 144pin SODIMM memory or not? ;)

I like it lots - beats all my normal non-dual workstations...as for memory haven't looked at that but need to as SQL Server gets a bit sluggish with 512MB...

Not sure if it does - the mobo is reported as a MiTAC 8355 under AIDA32 if it helps...

http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=7320 has a fairly recent list of drivers for the lappy - not sure if yours will come with them but may help to take a copy (just in case ;))

/edit - further delving via AIDA32 shows the memory used to be 200pin Unbuffered SO-DIMM

[IronBits]

:notworthy That's good news indeed, 200 PIN is :smoking:

[IronBits]

:|party|: WooHoo!!!!! It's here :D

[MerePeer]

If *adventure* is your middle name, you can try the XP64 preview, here

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/downloads/upgrade.asp

[matrix_fan]

give us some benchies pls, i really want this laptop :cry: :cry: :cry: .

[IronBits]

Well, in md5crk project it gives me a smooth
11 MegaMD5/sec Average. :D
I love this keyboard layout!
The EXTRA WIDE screen at 1280x800 15.1" screen is just fabulous!!!
Nice ATI 9600 mobile radeon seems to be ok, will load up some games later and test it :rolleyes:
Pretty snappy to!
Just what I was looking for.... EXACTLY in fact. :)

[Paratima]

Funny, naming it after a Motorola 8-bit CPU. Guess you have to start reusing numbers sooner or later, or you run out! :p

[Petey]

I always wondered what they did with all of those Commodore PETs.

:rotfl:

[IronBits]

Just as I was putting the finishing touches on the laptop late last night, I did something to the file system and it won't boot up anymore, but I'll be back on it again tonight to get it working again ;)

[pfb]

Originally posted by IronBits
Well, in md5crk project it gives me a smooth
11 MegaMD5/sec Average. :D


Is that the normal or P4 client? I've found using the P4 client is about 5% faster due to the use of SSE2...

[matrix_fan]

the athlon64 has sse2 ;)

[pfb]

that's what I implied- the normal client doesn't recognise SSE2 (or doesn't for me) but the P4 client does... ;)

[matrix_fan]

oh, lol, sorry, when u said u found it 5% faster, that was on a P4 right?

[pfb]

nope - the P4 client is about 5% faster on a AMD64 than the normal one due to the use of SSE2...

[IronBits]

Originally posted by pfb
Is that the normal or P4 client? I've found using the P4 client is about 5% faster due to the use of SSE2... I'll give that a try when I get the laptop back up to full speed :bang:
I had made a change to the system settings to set aside more memory for CACHE rather than applications and it caused the computer to loop, crash, loop :swear:

Once I was able to get the sucker up into safe mode, I changed it back and then installed SP2 beta and got almost everything back except the IE :bang:

Re-installing SP2 to see if that might straighten it out once and for all. :bonk:

If not, I will use the 'Restore CD' that came with it and start from scratch and I found out there is no 'Microsoft XP Home' physical CD. :trash:

I'll try your p4 edition on my desktop amd64 tho :thumbs: :D

[pfb]

iirc that's an issue with the ATi drivers - changing the system cache settings can cause problems...as I found out when I installed my 9800SE AIW in my desktop... :bang:

/edit - the ATi link for that 'problem' : http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html


This problem occurs when the computer runs out of system page table entries. Windows determines (at boot time) the default number of page table entries to assign, based on the amount of system memory available. The items mentioned above all contribute to increasing the number of page table entires that Windows XP must maintain and in extreme cases the page table entries may be exhausted.


To avoid this symptom ensure the System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. Use the Programs option.

Not sure if it's ATi or MS to blame :jester:

[IronBits]

:bang: :rotfl: :bang: :crazy:
Now ya tell me :rolleyes:
Crunching and typing just fine, now to hunt down the p4 md5crk client.
I heard it was faster :)

edit
nix that idea about the intel client being faster, at least on this box ;)
it is slower on this amd64 mobile...

[IronBits]

I am happy :elephant: to report that

Windows XP Professional 64-bit Beta

Works like a charm!!!

I have the VIA Rhine II driver installed for the LAN connection :)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600/9700 driver installed for the Video and working ok at 1280/800 :)
Realtek AC'97 Sound is even working good :)
Finger pad works great to! :)

:cheers:

:moto: :beep:

:tramp: :D

http://www.planetamd64.com/modules/mx_pafiledb/dload.php?action=category&cat_id=1

:thumbs:

[IronBits]

I installed the 64-bit version of the CPUz program.
Here is the report ...



CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1

Name Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Code Name ClawHammer
Specification Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Family / Model / Stepping F 4 A
Extended Family / Model F 4
Brand ID 2
Package Socket 754
Core Stepping SH7-CG
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, x86-64
CPU Clock Speed 2004.6 MHz
Clock multiplier x 10.0
HTT Bus Frequency 200.5 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2004.6 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer eMachine
Motherboard model Shadow-K8, KBC Revision: 3308
BIOS vendor Phoenix
BIOS revision 0F05.P00
BIOS release date 03/26/2004
Chipset VIA K8T800 (VT8383) rev. 1
Southbridge VIA VT8235 rev. 0

AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.5
AGP Data Transfert Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size 256 MBytes

Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 512 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 167.0 MHz
FSB:DRAM CPU/12
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 10 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Samsung DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 Samsung DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 256 MBytes

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Workstation Service Pack 1, v.1069 (Build 3790)