Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Its compatible. Go for it.


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Thanks for your info!

The second thing is more Ram ... in the latter part of this thread there's no talk about it anymore - if there are suggestions about which product meanwhile fits in best, I'm grateful again. Right now I have two 4 GB Kingston DDR3 PC3 12800 but would like to replace them and have all four slots with the largest capacity.

Well, and as I'll have the notebook already open, I just might replace the GPU also; The K4000M gives me flickering surroundigs whenever I zoom up a picture in Photoshop CS6; None of the different CS6-settings would change anything; One guy in a notebook-shop shortly peeked into the internet and told me it wouldn't fit with CS6; However I find the K4000 on Adobe's Whitelist vor CS6; Confusing; thanks for hints about wether an upgrade to the K5000M might solve it.

 

You have to be more clear about what you mean by flickering? How are you sure that its the card? Have you tried this on different monitors? And is the flickering during zooming. After? Or continuous? These are things we really need to see on a video.

Anyway, the K5000M (K5100M update) should give you more ram and CUDA cores, but I see no difference otherwise.

As for ram, unless you prefer a specific brand get whatever is cheapest.

 

I'm not sure about the cause for the flickering, and have no other monitor to try. It's only during zooming, that with the picture to be zoomed there's a frame that stays for a short intervall of each zoom-step; plus the surrounding pictures start flickering once along with each zoom-step; as if it were too much to process for the moment of zooming;


For Ram it says in the specs that "up to 32GB 1600MHz or up to 16GB 1866MHz" can be used - is that still correct?


Thanks again very much for the input

 

I'm pretty sure someone tried 32 GB 1866 MHz and it was working.

 

Like I said, without a video or photo at least, its hard be sure what you mean by flicker. However, if its what I think it is then its perfectly normal.

I'm pretty sure of that one as well.

 

Ok. All ordered

Here's the clip about flickering, the first three seconds are typical:

 

Just as I suspected. It was your appellation of the term flicker that confused me. Anyway, I'm no expert on PS but I suspect two possibles: your display or your graphic card lagging. I would lean towards the graphics card and it reaching its performance limitation. You do have quite a few windows open.

How many GB of ram do you have, two? And how much is apportioned for PS to use? You could try increasing the percentage if you have enough to spare. Also, PS has a performance indicator to warn you of these things (at worst, it can freeze or crash), but you need to check to see if you are nearing its limits, and if you're get any warnings?

I'm reasonably sure that this is what's causing your issue, but you need to check it to be sure. If it is, Adobe has guidelines for optimizing performance within PS. And you can also find tutorial on how to do this on youtube.

 

I can confirm this one, I've got 4x8GB 1866Mhz Crucial cards running perfectly fine here.

 

Not sure exactly what your configuration is. If you have graphics switching Intel/NVidia, then check to see if the Nvidia card is active in Photoshop preferences when loaded.
If PS is running on the Intel graphics system this is how it would behave. PS5 on M6600 with Quadro 4000M doesn't act like that unless it's somehow using the Intel graphics.