Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Not sure what it does with SSDs but you don't need to defragment SSDs. In fact, you don't want to --- it offers no performance benefit, as the SSD can access whatever data you want in constant time (unlike an HDD which has to position itself around), and re-writing the same data elsewhere on the disk will just wear out the flash cells that much faster.

Windows 7 has built-in support for TRIM which allows for the flash cells to be cleared out ahead of time when you delete something so that you don't have to wait for them to be cleared before writing something new. (Vista and prior OS's did not support this.) That's the only big thing I can think of.....

 

That is one area where Windows 8 is better than Windows 7, you can actually schedule "drive optimization" (pretty much telling the SSD it's time for garbage collection), windows 7 does this when it's idle and there is no way to schedule it. I do not know of a third party that does this for all SSDs, my 520 which is running Windows 7 has the advantage of having the Intel SSD toolbox so I can run GC manually whenever I see fit (when my simulations "explode" and go into the swap file).

 

Thoughts on this at all?

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It doesn't matter whether you install the new RAM under the keyboard or in the two other sockets. As long as you don't want to install more than two more SODIMMs, you can go ahead and put them where the sockets are free.

The RAM will run at the common slowest denominator. That is to say at the clocks and latencies of the slowest SODIMM you have. It is normal to have higher latencies at higher clocks by the way, but it usually translates in faster operation overall.

 

My 55W heatsink arrived today and I noticed that it has pre-applied thermal interface material and a lot of it. It also has some thermal pads on it which leads me to think that it is also responsible for cooling the PCH, I'll know more when I disassemble my M6700 and install it this week-end. Still trying to decide whether I use the TIM already on it or if I do a repaste. A repaste would likely give me better temps if I use less TIM though.

 

I'll try


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Incidentally, how would you rate the scores? Too bad the last is missing but I had to terminate the tests.

 

Let me know how it turns out... I'm thinking about buying mine next week. I'll probably use the thermal compound that is included if they have it already pasted.

 

I will, I'll also take pictures of the heatsink and TIM on it before I do the installation regardless of what I do, I can also take pics of the process and maybe make short guide to supplement the teardown manual from Dell.

It will also be a good opportunity to see how much dust got into the heatsink in 5 months.

 

Well its not very forthcoming when it refers to SSD as it is discs, but it does wonders for them. See for yourself:

RAXCO PerfectDisk

Okay, I attached it and it is a snug fit. Although I can't be certain what you mean by "play," but when moved (lifted) there is not movement at all.

One final thing, I checked the mSATA and the label was still on it. I removed it and the temperature is holding steady at 49C under normal operations. I will attempt to run a speed test soon and upload the results.

 

Hello everyone,

I've recently lost my FirePro 6000M due to some problems, And now I've gotten my hands on a FirePro 8900M, From what I understand it should actually be a bit better then the 6000M but I'm having trouble finding the drivers for it. If I try to install the windows 8 drivers for the Dell M6600/AMD 8900M the installation says that it can't find a compatible device or something.

Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.