Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

There's definitely thermal headroom to push the GPU higher than 100W. Quadro M5000M has a hard cap of 100W and AFAIK there's no way around it. Quadro P5000 will run higher than 100W, but when it is drawing that much power it ends up starving the CPU of power and throttling it. (I believe that this has been observed in both M6700 and M6800.)

 

Speaking of thermal headroom:

 

Yeah, not quite so much on the CPU. I nudge over 100 when gaming sometimes.

 

This is with power limits disabled and y-cruncher so it hitting 104C isn't that strange.

 

Never did more than 60W on my 3920XM running at 4.2GHz on prime95 which was the "limit" (80C all core) of the cooling for substained load with fan at 100% and liquid metal on the CPU.

 

Just want to verify that the webcam on these is pretty crap. I never really used it for work, but now that I've repurposed the machine, I'm finding that I want to use the webcam.

I do plan on buying an external one, but I just want to make sure I'm not nuts about the internal one. It's pretty grainy and it appears as though there is no way to focus it.

 

This is indeed the case, it only works "well" if you are in a very well-lit environment.
(...Newer Precision systems aren't any better, really, they seem to use cheap webcams across the board.)

 

Thanks, Aaron!

 

god damn Dutch Customs needs to hurry the F up with my M6700, apparently it's been stuck there since Dec 31th.

 

I've always wanted to install a Coral TPU in the extra half-size mini PCIe slot next to the WiFi card (The "Pink Panther" slot, per Dell's schematics). I've seen plenty of guides on improving dodgy laptop webcam quality but using Edge acceleration to clean up the image is one of the cooler applications. If only they were ever in stock...