04-26-2016, 08:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2016, 09:53 PM by epixoip.
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I wouldn't run oclHashcat on that laptop for two reasons: one, that GPU is terrible, especially for slow hashes like NetNTLM (it is Maxwell, but it will be ~2.3x slower than a GTX 960 -- even a GTX 750 Ti will be faster); and two, that chassis doesn't have sufficient cooling to cope with compute workloads.
You didn't exactly say which Precision model this is, but every Precision I've torn down / seen torn down have all had the same basic configuration: a single heat pipe for both CPU + GPU, with a teeny-tiny little heatsink with a shitty fan on each end of the heatpipe. So the CPU + GPU are in the same thermal zone, and the GPU is already at a disadvantage from the start because it's being pre-heated by the CPU, and then the heatpipe and those minuscule heatsinks have to cope with the load of both the CPU + GPU simultaneously, which of course it can't.
So yeah, if you tried to run oclHashcat on this laptop you would be sorely disappointed. It will be very slow, very hot, and very noisy.
About a year ago I desperately needed a new laptop (my Samsung Ultrabook was literally falling apart at the seams), and I was entirely fed up with the mediocre selection of piss-poor laptop designs from all the major name-brand retailers. Everything I looked at from Dell, HP, Asus, etc. was pure garbage. So I sought out buying a laptop directly from an ODM.
That led me to Clevo, and their staggering selection of systems (I think last I looked, they had like 130+ different chassis available?) I ended up going with the Clevo P650SE, which has a discrete GTX 970M in a separate thermal zone from the CPU, with a dedicated cooling solution (three dedicated heatpipes into two fans), so it can actually handle high GPU load without being pre-heated by the CPU. It also is thin, lightweight, and doesn't look like some big goofy gamer laptop -- it just looks like a nice, normal laptop. The laptop also has a Core i7-4720HQ, 32GB RAM, and 2x 1TB SSDs (with room for two more SSDs!) And it has an IPS display, backlit keyboard, finperprint reader, etc. so it really has all the bells and whistles. It is hands-down the best laptop I've ever seen, let alone owned. But the best part? All of this was only $2100. That's like half the price of anything even remotely comparable from the big retailers. So I decided that I will never again own another name-brand laptop.
Just my $0.02, but forget Dell and all the other retailers and buy a real laptop.
EDIT: Just want to make it clear I am not affiliated with Clevo nor any of their associates both domestic or abroad, just an extremely satisfied customer. Knowing this world is out there was a serious game changer for me. Seriously, just look at this fucking thing: http://www.clevo.com.tw/clevo_prodetail....35&lang=en
You didn't exactly say which Precision model this is, but every Precision I've torn down / seen torn down have all had the same basic configuration: a single heat pipe for both CPU + GPU, with a teeny-tiny little heatsink with a shitty fan on each end of the heatpipe. So the CPU + GPU are in the same thermal zone, and the GPU is already at a disadvantage from the start because it's being pre-heated by the CPU, and then the heatpipe and those minuscule heatsinks have to cope with the load of both the CPU + GPU simultaneously, which of course it can't.
So yeah, if you tried to run oclHashcat on this laptop you would be sorely disappointed. It will be very slow, very hot, and very noisy.
About a year ago I desperately needed a new laptop (my Samsung Ultrabook was literally falling apart at the seams), and I was entirely fed up with the mediocre selection of piss-poor laptop designs from all the major name-brand retailers. Everything I looked at from Dell, HP, Asus, etc. was pure garbage. So I sought out buying a laptop directly from an ODM.
That led me to Clevo, and their staggering selection of systems (I think last I looked, they had like 130+ different chassis available?) I ended up going with the Clevo P650SE, which has a discrete GTX 970M in a separate thermal zone from the CPU, with a dedicated cooling solution (three dedicated heatpipes into two fans), so it can actually handle high GPU load without being pre-heated by the CPU. It also is thin, lightweight, and doesn't look like some big goofy gamer laptop -- it just looks like a nice, normal laptop. The laptop also has a Core i7-4720HQ, 32GB RAM, and 2x 1TB SSDs (with room for two more SSDs!) And it has an IPS display, backlit keyboard, finperprint reader, etc. so it really has all the bells and whistles. It is hands-down the best laptop I've ever seen, let alone owned. But the best part? All of this was only $2100. That's like half the price of anything even remotely comparable from the big retailers. So I decided that I will never again own another name-brand laptop.
Just my $0.02, but forget Dell and all the other retailers and buy a real laptop.
EDIT: Just want to make it clear I am not affiliated with Clevo nor any of their associates both domestic or abroad, just an extremely satisfied customer. Knowing this world is out there was a serious game changer for me. Seriously, just look at this fucking thing: http://www.clevo.com.tw/clevo_prodetail....35&lang=en