Dell Precision M6700 Owner's Review

The AMD GPU might support Enduro, but the system as a whole does not. In the G+ hangout a few days back, Mano stated that certain engineering considerations prevented Enduro support in the M6700. He didn't go into specifics. Perhaps Enduro will be supported in the M6800.

 

Engineering considerations in favor of Nvidia, that's the way I see it. Since Dell is giving the Greens the top priority - the outcome is easy to foretell. If they had a choice of enabling Optimus or Enduro, but only one solution was funded, who do you think they would choose?

 

Just install the PerformanceTest from PassMark. You will get an access to hundreds of available performance profiles of M6000 to compare.

 

1. Take the 1600MHz stuff. Even the top-end processor doesn't support 1866MHz. ARK | Intel® Core
2. I believe it's an M3, but I'm unsure of the depth. Bokeh, can you weigh in on this one?
3. No, you can't add IPS ex post facto. The GPU has to support 10-bit color.

 

That's because you want what you want and you like power. I've seen guys like you in the car market and you're always doing something to make your car faster.

You end up with the fastest car in the neighborhood fine, but you're always working under the hood. I end up giving you a ride to the parts store when your car breaks down.

 

Uh, I've not had a chance to try it for myself since my M4700 is still in manufacturing, but the specifications part of the "om_en.pdf" file clearly says "Speed 1600 MHz and 1866 MHz", the configurator lets you order it with 1866Mhz RAM, and their spare parts webstore lists 1866MHz Kingston HyperX as compatible with M4700/M6700: 2 GB Memory Module - DDR3-1866 Hyper X SODIMM 2R : Computer Components | Dell UK

Whether it's worth doing it or not is another matter entirely, and I have no idea if the systems are compatible with the XMP using Corsair 1866MHz RAM.

 

You again with your cars analogies, lol. I'm not talking about spending days improving the cooling and OC'ing the components beyond any reason. Rather choose a machine with a cooling matching the engine! And since you love car analogies so much, here's one for ya:
It's like buying a Toyota Corolla with a 8.4-liter ohv V-10 engine, forever capped/locked at 2.5l V-4. Why on earth would you pay for the full 8.4-liter ohv V-10 when you could grab a 2.5 V-4 for a fraction of the price?? Cuz we are talking about the same engines. same CPUs - 37x0Qm, 38x0QM, 39x0xm. In Mx700 these are locked at stock clocks, from the 3720QM 2.6-3.6, to the 3920xm - turbo 3.6ghz x 4 cores and up to 3.8Ghz on one core. And even at the stock clocks people are seeing 90c+ under load, and somehow you call it more geared towards a continuous load??
At the same time in the "gaming" sector these CPU's are unlocked! The 3720qm goes from 2.6-3.6Ghz to 3.8Ghz x 4 cores and up to 4Ghz on a single core, that is 200MHz faster than the 3920xm in the M6700 and at astounding cost - 800$ less than the XM! Not only that, it also runs way cooler than the XM and thus more stable and reliable on the long run. As for the 3920xm, it can be safely pushed past 4.5Ghz on all cores on stock cooling, which is 900mhz higher than the same CPU in M6700! At those clocks the difference in rendering/encoding is night and day. And that's the only reason I'd justify the extra cost of the XM CPU.

 

I always prefered actual test of the owner with the precise notebook I'm intrested in. The one you can ask questions

That is why this test is priceless. I hope he will continue to test the 17 precisions for a long time and many models.

 

Irrelevant if the configurator supports it. Dell will gladly take your money. My 1647 came with 1333, despite the processor supporting at most 1066.

 

As much as that may be, I looked up the Dell sg_en.pdf spec sheet for the Studio XPS 1647 and it clearly says:

I agree with the configurator being a bit nutty in general though.