Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Interesting... 61C is pretty high. I haven't seen that on even the hottest spinning HDDs in the M6700. I believe we're running the same drives which is a bit curious.

 

So after looking into it a bit I misspoke and I only ordered 8GB of 1866 in 2 the 4GB x 2 dimm form...

The odd thing is I notice they installed the ram in the secondary bays under the keyboard so the main bay #1 and 2 on the bottom of the laptop are empty... Will this effect anything at all? I am planning on adding another 8-16GB ram but not sure if it really matters which is in primary vs secondary or if it matters that until I get the new ram nothing us in the main bays...??... Seems to show up fine in the computer when I check taskmanager...

In the 4GB x 2 dimm format they installed the Ram below:
Kingston 4GB 2Rx8 XMP3 1866s-11-12-F3
X7C75G-HYC
(each individual module on the RAM stick has "hynix" on it fwiw)


I know the lower the CL the better the ram but seems there isn't anything all that low except for the slower clock pieces...

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Possible the main bay run hotter than secondary bay? My SSD in main bay always hotter(10-20C) than HDD in second bay, though HDD idle most of the time.

 

I'm not sure what happened to the link, but I'm not at my Precision now. I'll reattach it when I get home. Incidentally, that reading is from my mSATA (Mushkin Direct Atlas Deluxe 240GB mSATA SATA III Solid State Drive ), not the HDD. That one is operating well within standard parameter.

Funny, my OCZ Vertex 4 gives no temp reading at all. But what you say stands to reason to be the case. The HDD runs the coolest I've seen.

 

Some SSDs have no temp sensors, that might be why you get no reading.

 

Questions About My PremierColor IPS Display

After getting lots of questions answered in this thread (thanks again to everyone who helped!), I ordered and received my M6700.

The screen was the #1 reason for purchasing the laptop and unfortunately, I ended up with some blue tint in the lower right corner and red tint in the lower left. I don't see green tint in the middle, like at least one other person in this thread noted, but the blue and red tinting bothers me enough that I have a Dell technician scheduled to do a replacement of the screen at my home in a few days. I also have one dead pixel that's bothering me (knowing that it's there).

Hopefully the new screen will fix my tinting and dead pixel issues, but I do have a few other questions:

1. When the PremierColor utility is set to "Full," my reds are crazy / way off / hot. The colors in general are beautiful, but a little TOO vibrant, especially those reds. I'm seeing this problem in the Windows UI, in web browsers, and in Adobe Lightroom. Reds look more like hot pink. It reminds me of the manufacturing issues that the 15" screens were having. I did a couple of calibrations with my Spyder3Express (allowing for 30 minute warmup time, no ambient light in the room, etc), and on the first try, it turned my greys into browns (assuming it was trying really hard to correct for the reds?). On the second try, my greys were better, but it didn't help the reds much. If I set the screen to sRGB or Adobe RGB, the reds are better, but then why would I use those modes if I paid so much money to get the Full color gamut? Am I doing something wrong, or do I just have a bad screen?
   
2. Another selling point of this monitor was IPS, but I can't say that the colors/shades/tones remain consistent when I shift away from looking straight on at the screen. It's not nearly as bad as a TN panel, but I can definitely notice some sort of shift (gamma shift?). Is that normal? It's most noticeable on a pure white or pure grey background and when tilting the screen vertically. I do a lot of photo editing (mainly black and white), so it's bothersome that I need to be cognizant of my viewing angle on such a high-end IPS screen. I ask again, am I doing something wrong (being too picky, misunderstanding the technology?), or is there a problem with my screen?
   
3. For those of you who have calibrated your screens, do you witness the colors shifting after you start Windows? That really annoys me. I wish there was no delay in changing color profiles. Not only that, but I feel like I see the colors shift more than once as the system loads my color profile/s. Is it possible that my Catalyst Control Center is conflicting with my Spyder color profile, which is conflicting with my Windows color profile, which might also be conflicting with whatever the PremierColor software is doing? It's all very confusing.
   
4. Should the monitor be listed in Device Manager as "Generic PnP Monitor" (I did a format and clean install of Windows, so I hope I didn't miss any drivers)?

Sorry for all the questions, but a huge thanks in advance for your feedback.

 

Corner tints are not uncommon complain, some are more sensitive to the little tint. replacement may help, but there are report several replacements didnt help.

1. If there is red tint, my guess is their QC is off and didnt do factory calibration for you. Some had said that the panel color calibration is preset into the conversion board (not confirmed though).
2. those are contrast shift, which are normal. Try this Viewing angle - Lagom LCD test on IPS then on some TN.
3. The color profile is loaded when you log on windows, hence the "shift", there is no way to fix bios screen/windows loading screen except factory calibration.
4. Yes

Spyder 3 is not that good with wide gamut~~, try limit the gamut to aRGB or sRGB then re-calibrate.

I had DIY experience with 3panel(3rd party, though with DELL p/n)
all 3 have corner tints, 2 have no red shift, 1 with red shift. Though I kept the 1 with red shift cause it got almost 0 backlight bleed.

Edit: on 3, disable premier color auto start, unless you shift colorspace often and rely on it. Spyder profile is really windows profile, premier color(restrict color-space) can actually stack on windows profile, But premier color reset your windows profile when launch. It is complicated hardware/software implementation ~~.

 

After the calibration, I should set it back to Full?... and then disable PremierColor (per your last suggestion, if I don't switch color spaces)?

 

If color accuracy is needed then no, but it may remove the redness and let you keep the saturated color look.

 

Well these are my first SSD; and I tried to do enough research so that I only buy the ones that come highly reviewed.

According to that research this is one of them. Unfortunately, I get one that apparently have no sensor. I can only assume that means it so reliable as to not need one?

In any event, does anyone know of a program that auto manages SSDs or is Windows enough? It certainly isn't enough for optimal HDD maintenance.

I have an aftermarket tool that manages my HDD and keeps them defragmented and running smoothly. It also has an SSD designation, but I'm not really sure how reliable it is at that job. I guess I need to study the SSD page.

Can anyone recommend a good "how to guide" for screen calibration? There's so much data out there its hard to know what's what. I could use a bit more background on screen calibration now that I have one worthy of the trouble.

Incidentally, I understand that the industry is changing to a new calibration standard to adapt to newer high resolution display as the current standard was pre HD.