Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Thanks for your stuff, how can I install it in my system to make it work?

 

Look up the tool nvflash, it can be used to flash the vBIOS.
(You can look at tutorials or YouTube videos to see how to use it.)

 

Hi, I will be new to the precision M6700 in few days, mine comes with a 1600*900 screen (LVDS I suppose) and an Quadro K4000M, the thing I wanted to know is it any screen upgrading ? I planed first to swap my 1080p screen (not IPS one) from my Inspiron 17R 7720 SE but I wonder if the M6700 can handle QHD or UHD (or even 120Hz one) edp screen, since I didn't find somebody that tried and I couldn't find how many eDP lane has the M6700, I'm here for asking you guys
Also I want to know if modded bios exist for this model, at least to have more control on the CPU (like thermal/power adjustment) then to control easily the BCLK or the voltage (with XTU for example) and to overclock the DDR3. Secondly I want to know if I need modded vbios to overclock my K4000M ?
And for those wondered if this laptop support 64Gb, it doesn't because the first memory controller (IMC) on intel mobile to support 16Gb stick comes with 5 gen broadwell
Thanks a lot everyone

 

Yeah that's what I'm looking for the modded bios, to get the TDP unlock and the 400MHz overclock I wanted
I digged a little more and found that Pascal gpu upgrade for the M6700 is only available for the IPS (eDP screen) one ? But in other thread they said that pascal cannot work even if an IPS screen is fitted

 

Fitting in a 1080p display should be fine. Forget about that unless you are using eDP. It doesn't use "regular" straight eDP that modern systems use, the IPS eDP display that came in these systems also came with an interposer board... I have no idea what it would take to get a regular eDP screen to work.

For Pascal, the only hard success story we have is using the Quadro P5000 with a very specific, early engineering sample vBIOS. Production vBIOS are all causing failure at boot with Pascal. (Also, if you have a LVDS display then you will have to operate with Optimus enabled with a Pascal GPU.)

No go for 64GB RAM. 32GB is the max.

You can overclock the K4000M without a modded vBIOS but only a little bit. A modded vBIOS is needed to get any sort of substantial overclock. Fortunately, these are easy to come by or even produce on your own.

 

Okay, and do you know if there is any schematics/pinout for this specific eDP port that have the M6700 ? Maybe it is just a proprietary one that need to be modded
Do you have some picture/part number for the interposer board ? I read that eDP is directly connected to the mxm card and the LVDS to the iGP, is that true ? if true that mean we need to disable optimus when we are using eDP screen ?
I found an GTX980M 4GB mxm (MSI one : MS-1W0J1 VER 1.0) for around 200€ (in europe these are so expensive), but I wonder if every 980m mxm will work on the M6700 ? or they need to have a compatible vbios ?

 

I found that people that manage to get 4K screen on M6700 :
https://forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1820565&highlight=m6700
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5493584409?pn=1
https://forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1804520&highlight=m6700
It's not very easy to understand what they said by using google translate :/, but maybe after christmas I will sum up everything and maybe try to do it

 

The eDP port is connected only to the MXM card. If you have a display connected to the eDP port, the Optimus option is not even shown in the BIOS, it is not available.

 

Okay thanks, what about the gpu upgrade, is all vbios brand are compatible with the M6700?

 

All vBIOS except for HP seem to work OK...
(Trickier if you try to install a Pascal card.)