Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Yeah, I would have replaced the OEM RAM with a set of matching modules, but I hate to waste the 8 GB that the Covet comes with. ... Will wait and see what CPU-Z says.

As for the OCing, I'm no gaming freak, almost never play, but the inveterate tweaker in me wants to pull as much potential out of my hardware as reasonably possible. So, are you saying that OCing is possible through the M6700 BIOS??

 

The BIOS won't allow you to OC your GPU, but some software will. There's a limit to how high you can overclock without modding your vBios though.

 

That's interesting. What's the name of the software that overclocks GPUs??

How about OCing the CPU?? Also some way to do that, too??

 

Tijo - Can you go into more detail as to how you bent the chassis back into place? I have the same issue on my new M6700.

 

If you have NVIDIA card, you can overclock it easily with THIS. You can add +135MHz (you have to have ver 320 nvidia drivers) without any vbios mods. That will give you depending on the card around 15-20% performance boost without affecting temperature readings at all. If you wanna go hard on it, like i do with my K3000M (unlocked vbios), i do add +450MHz on the core, it does get 4-5c warmer but gives me over 50% of overall performance gain Good luck

 

Very nice. How did you unlock your vBIOS??

Now, what if I have the AMD FirePro M6000 video card (which I should have in a few days on my new Covet <hope, hope, hope>) ??

 

I disassembled the laptop a little the point of removing the pamlrest and then bent it back once the palmrest was removed.

Good question, I don't think anyone tried to OC the firepro, I could give it a shot with Saphire Trixx when I have the time.

I don't think you can OC the CPU.</hope,>

 

Saphire Trixx is software?? Looks like you've got a FirePro on your 6700, right??

Also, how to unlock the vBIOS??

 

Which CPU? If I recall correctly some guy with an Alienware OC his Intel 3940XM to 5.0 GHz!

The OC functions as (15%) turbo on the card. But, I only checked the k5000. Not sure about the others though.

In any event, as tijo already stated, this is not offered through Dell even with their superior cooling. An oversight? Maybe?

 

Got the link to the vbios file? Might try that myself.

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