Dell Precision M6700 Owner's Review

I'm looking at buying M6700 from the Dell Outlet and the CPU is prrocessor: Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM - Is it worth holding out for a new i7 CPU? Is the board and chassis still the same in these other units? Will this 3720QM run the 16GB 1866 memory?

 

Yes, the 3720qm will. The only RAM the M6700 doesn't seem to like regardless of the CPU is the 4GB DDR3 1866MHz Corsair SODIMMs. The 8GB 1866MHz ones seem tow ork just fine and the 1600MHz ones work perfectly as well.

 

So 4x4GB 1866 is a no? And 2x8GB 1866 is a yes?

Was there any board revisions on the M6700?

Actually there isn't 8GB Corsair sticks so do you mean 2x2GB 1866 and 2x4GB sticks?

 

If these aren't 8GB 1866MHz Corsair SODIMMs: Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance Performance 16GB (2 x 8G) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1866 Laptop Memory Model CMSX16GX3M2A1866C10, I don't know what they are.

I meant the 4GB 1866MHz Corsair SODIMMs (only those particular Corsair, the 4GB 1866MHz Kingston work fine)

 

Odd, I went onto the manufacturers website and could only see the 8 gb kit.

Thanks.

Dell's website the M6700 only supports 16gb of this quicker memory, anyone tried more than 16?

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Covet Unboxing....

Look! A Box!!



Inside the box, another box!!!



Even more subboxes!



Under the box holding the subboxes, we find - another box!!



Box with the power slice.



Power slice without a protective box.



Protective packaging inside a box.



Protective packaging outside of a box.



Be careful! All of this box excitement might kill you!!



Not a box hinge, just a normal hinge.



Covet unboxed with shadows from the light and multiple light sources of differing K. Gotta keep this unboxing real.



Unboxed battery vs power slice boxing match.



From the side.



Unboxed and attached power slice. Note that the tilt is slightly exaggerated by the camera angle.



Rear view.



Bottom unboxed view.



Unboxed and unpaneled with SSDs removed. Samsung 830. 2 sticks of ram from the factory under the keyboard.

 

Humm that Slice has me intrigued a bit.

Is this the same as what you got ? Dell - 97 Whr 9-Cell Lithium Battery Slice for Select Dell Precision Mobile WorkStations / Latitude Laptops : Laptop/Notebook Accessories | Dell Canada

-R

 

Looks like there is a new bios version: A08 up as of today. I have yet to try it.

The fixes and enhancement notes, I think some of you will be interested in #3:

Dell's download server has decided not to like me today, I'm unable to download the file right now.

 

BIOS update release notes:

1. Enhanced DDPE functionality.
2. Enhanced DDPA functionality.
3. Enhanced brightness control functionality.
4. Enhanced diagnostic support.

We have some people who are getting a failure related to brightness control in the system diagnostic utility. Maybe this will do something about it?

I probably won't install it until the weekend. After a previous BIOS update related mishap, I always like to make a full backup first...

 

Hmm, looks like Aaron ninja'ed my edit.

I also plan on a full backup before updating. My docs are on the mSATA and that is the only drive that I don't have an adapter for so I can't just hook it to an adapter and recover the data.