Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

I've tried that, the M6600 driver says failed and doesn't install. The M6800 driver (the one for windows 7 64 bit) installs but doesn't recognise the card.

It comes up with the following error message:
The AMD FirePro Control Centre is not supported by the driver version of you enabled graphics adaptor. Please update your AMD graphics driver, or enable your AMD adaptor using the Displays Manager.

Is it totally incompatible or is the card dead? I think it's more likely the card is fine though

 

Try those regular Radeon driver, should read as hd 8950

Sent from my 306SH

 

If regular amd radeon drivers dont work
Try modifying inf file.

Im on my phone so i just skimmed trough tutorial but it could work
http://benchmark3d.com/mod-catalyst-driver-to-add-supported-cards

 

Woohoo!! Yes the M6100 can run on the Dell M6700.

None of the regular firepro drivers worked so as suggested by baii I tried getting the normal radeon driver. I decided to use the AMD Autodetect software to do it and It sorted out everything, it downloaded some framework, visual++ and core windows display driver updates. Anyway it's all good, it has the proper Firepro control centre and has the Firepro options like 10 bit pixels. Yet it calls it a Radeon 8950M. Weird.

Factory Clock says 1075 Mhz and Memory base clock is 1375 Mhz.

I'm running a I7-3720qm processor and 2x4gb Kingston 1866 mhz plug and play but (currently...) a single old 7200rpm 750gb Hdd.

Benchmarks:

3d Mark 11 Performance setting:
P5801 with Generic VGA(1x) and Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor

Cinebench 11.5:
32bit: Open GL 78.39 fps / CPU 6.41 pts
64bit: Open GL 73.61 fps / CPU 6.74 pts

Cool it goes really well, my old M6000 setup was (by memory) did around 2720 on 3d mark and around 3150 when I mildy overclocked it using MSI afterburner (was much hotter running though so I turned it back even though it was stable).

 

Cool result - better than my overclocked K4000M which does about 5500 and with lower power consumption (and less fan work).

Now, if somebody would be kind enough to try to mount a 970/980M in the M6700 to confirm it works..

 

The m6100 actually run really cool ~, The m6000 can hit 4kish if you put is hard with volt mod and stuff ~

 

Glad to hear you found a positive solution to your dilemma.

 

Cheers guys, I rechecked it today after applying some new thermal paste (which made no real difference to score 3d mark 11 P5810).

I have one issue with my notebook though and thats that the fans don't seem to respond to gpu heating up only. When it's running something that uses both CPU and GPU its fine the fans run, with a quick run of furmark from cool the gpu climbed to 90°C (in about 3 mins) and still hadn't used the fans. It's as if only the CPU temperature sensor results in fans running up and down (yes both fans go at the same time). I'm thinking of getting MSI afterburner back on it and trying the customize fan speed part of it, I'd rather it be noisier and cool than get really warm before doing anything. Is there a way to fix that issue properly (rather than having to use aftermarket software)?

Fans running on 3d mark it sits around 55-60° on gpu and ~75° cpu. I looked at HW monitor though and it said the graphics card got up to 95° before the fans kicked in which is worrying.


One other thing, does anybody have and experience with Ashlar-Vellum (Graphite v7) it's old 2d CAD software my boss insists on using but it doesn't seem to have any driver support (it is 10 year old software) so my M6700 runs it on intergrated graphics only. Was the same on the M6000 firepro too, would be nice to force use it as some large general arrangement drawings do get quite slow on the old clunky software. (like down to 1-2 fps on 6-8 metre machines when zoomed out).

 

The gpu don't spin up is a real problem, the chinese people dig a bit and found no solution. m6000 on m6600 or m6100 on m6700, same problem

https://translate.google.com/transl...l.benyouhui.it168.com/thread-5339993-1-1.html

If you are with AMD on a m6700, there is no integrated graphic. " You can't do anything about it" if the software don't use gpu acceleration properly. There may be some workaround with some google fu.

 

Regarding the fps problem with the old software, I'd bet that the GPU isn't clocking properly and staying at low frequency by not detecting that it's actually needed. I would check that and then see if you can't force the clocks up to their max frequency.