Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

I attached what my M6700 is showing (running Windows 10). I used to have the Rec. Playback on my M6600 (which did not have a webcam at all), but now I don't have it on my M6700 (which does have a webcam).

 

Anybody did a clean install of Windows 10? I wonder how the Windows 10 license is upgraded then. Perhaps I need to upgrade first and then do a clean reinstall.

My M6700 is not in UEFI mode so if I upgrade, I'd want the full monty which would require a clean install (plus dual boot).

 

You have to upgrade from a qualifying OS first in order to be granted your Windows 10 license. After that, you can clean install if you like. You also have the option of "Keep nothing" during the "Choose what to keep" question during the upgrade, which will do a clean install (stashing your old Program Files, Windows, and Users folders into C:\Windows.old) while also granting you a Windows 10 license.

You can switch from legacy boot to UEFI (if you're ambitious) by following these steps. I used a similar procedure when going from Windows 7 to Windows 8. (I did it before the upgrade as Windows 7 also supports UEFI boot.)

 

That seems to be worth a try so I can try a lazy upgrade rather than a clean install, thanks (with the option of going back).

Although, my experience with my Sony laptop upgrade wasn't thrilling - went back after three days. Besides other niggles (like GPU overclock not working), I had a feeling the SSD was dragging on - e.g. unpacking Nvidia drivers during installation was very noticeably slow.

 

OK, now I'm confused. What is it you're trying to do exactly? Do you have any external recording/playback devices installed or connected?

 

I think he's trying to get a program to record the computer's regular audio output.

Some sound drivers have the audio output show up as a recording input device, so that any audio capture program can get it.

I haven't seen this as an option in the M6700. You can go the cheap way out, and hook a cable from the headphone port to the line-in/mic port, and capture from that.

 

Anyone know what the fastest ram a 6700 can use?
I'd like to upgrade my laptop and RAM is only thing left to do. Currently have 32gb but it's stock DELL ram.

 

The M6700 can do DDR3-1866.

 

I assume you currently have DDR3-1600 memory installed?

I doubt you will experience a noticeable performance gain from switching to DDR3-1866 memory.

 

No idea, it's whatever DELL uses when purchased new.