Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

We have several complaints of this with the M6700 early on. Check your graphics drivers and see if they are outdated. (The newest ones on Dell's site should be fine.) Otherwise, the Premier Color application has been known to be part of the issue here as well.

 

Ok, if you feel that Furmark is extreme and somewhat dangerous (and it well may be, i am sorry), please run 3Dmark 11 and tell me what temperature are you getting.
I just need a standard benchmark.
I was using Furmark because some people wrote that their K5000m never got passed 70 degrees Celsius in Furmark and I can't seem to replicate that.
I have a brand new card and a brand new heatsink from Dell and I've tried several times and no matter how I install the card and paste the GPU I can't seem to have temps lower then 80-84 in Furmark... and I only run the test for 5-6 minutes tops.

Thank you!

 

Guys,

If running benchmarks it's not possible, please share your temps with me (the K5000m temps)... in gaming, idle, ambient temp... whatever data you can provide it's ok, I just want to get an ideea what my temp should be.
Also can you please tell me if your card was factory installed or you installed it (or you at least once repaste it)
Thank you !

P.S Can you also please tell me what driver do you have?

I've learned that the new drivers throttle the GPU when they detect Furmark running... the funny thing is that with the latest Quadro Performance drivers i did not see any throttling.

 

Idle: 45-50C
Computing (eg. Adobe Premiere): up to 95C


Cheers,
Alex

 

Thank you for The feedback, RealJEDI
Wow your card is hot... hotter then mine actually.... how did you get to that temperature, after a lot of rendering, after many hours? Is it hot in your room?

 

Nope - my room's not hot
Which part is hotter than your M6700: idle or full throttle or both?
I get this temp after about 30min of 100% CPU and GPU (eg. rendering). The max temp was lower when I got this notebook -> I think it will get down after cleaning the heat pipe (or maybe I will ask DELL for replacing the heat pipe).
I've had a lot of (temperature) trouble (including CPU and GPU throttling) with my M6500 (Quadro 3800M) until DELL exchanged it with a M6700.
Don't forget the influence of the graphics driver version: I noticed different temperatures with different drivers.
I am using 320.92 right now and I will test 331.65 this weekend...

Cheers,
Alex

PS: My notebook is full of parts consuming energy and producing heat: 4 big memory modules, 3 SSDs and a running UMTS (3G) module. A notebook with with 2x 4GB memory and only one drive could be cooler...

 

For test such as this to be useful you need to be more specific i.e., similar conditions. If you want usable results you should first set the standard: After I see you're example, I'll contribute.

 

Ok,

The latop is sitting on an empty desk.
There is no heat source nearby.

I've used the Heaven benchmark v4.0 Basic edition - free for download and use

Settings used :
API : Directx 11
Quality : High
Tesselation : Normal
Stereo 3D : Disabled
Multi-monitor : Disabled
AA : x4
Full Screen : Yes
Resolution : System (1920x1080)
I've pressed RUN and let it loop for 10 minutes

Ambient temperature : 25 Celsius
GPU started at 43 Celsius
GPU settled at 69 Celsius after the 10 minutes loop

Later edit:
Ambient temperature : 25 Celsius
I OCed only the GPU from 601Mhz (stock) to 701Mhz
RAN the same benchmark with the same settings and after 15 minutes of looping GPU settled at 71 Celsius

 

I tried to match your conditions as closely as possible with the exception of time (which I didn't notice until after the test). Hope this helps.


Settings used :
API : Directx 11
Quality : High
Tesselation : Normal
Stereo 3D : Disabled
Multi-monitor : Disabled
AA : x4
Full Screen : Yes
Resolution : System (1920x1080)
I've pressed RUN and let it loop for 7minutes

Ambient temperature : 24 Celsius
GPU started at 42 Celsius
GPU settled at 65 Celsius after the 7 minutes loop.

Note: My laptops rests on a Coolmaster

 

Did you just try raising the rear end of the laptop by a cm or two? It should improve the temperatures considerably.