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Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by Bokeh, Aug 9, 2012.

  1. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    Actually, I have the BIOS A10 eff. 5/20/13. I never found the fan noise obtrusive but now its virtually non existent unless stressed.
     
  2. ijozic

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    Mine works pretty much fine while on the notebook stand, but when it's flat on the table and the fans spin (which happens quite often) I noticed that my old M6400 is noticeably more quiet (maybe the fans are more quiet at same speed or something) as I used it for a few days while on a trip.
     
  3. Krane

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    My fans used to cycle on much more often. Now they rarely do. Problem is, I can't be sure whether its the result of the update/upgrade of the BIOS or the HDs (or both) since they occurred at about the same time?

    In fact, there's no way to be sure of much at all since this is hardly a scientific test.
     
  4. ijozic

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    OK, mine don't kick in that much neither, but in both cases, the laptop is on a stand, not flat on the desk or docked. I've had noticeably worse experience when it was flat on the table and I blame the first stage of fans being relatively noisy (compared to M6400 again) so some tool for fine tuning the fan speed would be very useful IMHO.

    For occasional gaming, I find the FPS lock option in the Nvidia drivers (set via Nvidia inspector) useful for not pushing the GPU over what's needed (e.g. if set to 30 FPS, the GPU will only load itself as much as needed for that level of performance) so the fans don't go to full speed. This was recommended by someone, so if it was in this thread, I apologize.
     
  5. ijozic

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    Maybe it's like a short and a long version, but it would seem more convenient not to double post the main points of interest.
     
  6. Krane

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    I"m not sure if that's a good idea. Especially since the cycling has to coincide with whatever cooling is necessary to protect the components.

    After all, its not like you can change the cooling fan on your car etc. I just comes on when needed. Unless you're referring the rate at which it spins up?
     
  7. ijozic

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    Yes, you're right, it's not an ideal solution because you'd have to keep in mind not to load it up (there's always temperature throttling as a backup), but I'm mentioning it as we had that option with the M6400 engineer screen shortcut where you could set the RPM speeds directly.

    Ideally, a tool would have access to the tables which define the temperatures and the fan speeds so some optimization could be done there.
     
  8. Aaron44126

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    I have an M6700, at the moment the laptop screen seems to be locked in on the integrated intel graphics card. when I plug in an external monitor, the Quadro is locked into the external monitor, the graphics on the quadro are much, much better. how can I lock the quadro into the laptop screen and not use the intel graphics card?

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  10. darkydark

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    go into bios and disable optimus. you will run on quadro all the time. remember to turn oprimus again on when you need battery life.

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