Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

That's about the same frequency it happened to me, but you could count on it happening every other day or so. I use ti about the same amount as you, and it sounds like the same problem. I woul dclose the offending program and open it up again, to clear the problem. It happened for me with apps like Chrome,..
For what it's worth, a full day today and so far it has not happened with the new driver.

 

Windows 8 drivers making an appearance.

Here's the Windows 8 touchpad driver:
Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United States]

 

Not sure if this will help as I do not have the M6700 but the M6600.
The same problem used to happen to me, and I discovered that if I turn off PremierColour and set it to not load on start up, I do not have the problem at all. Hope this fixes your problem. FWIW I am also on 305.93 but had the problem with previous drivers as well.

 

I'm seeing several other Win8 drivers on the support site including what appears to be an even newer one for NVIDIA (306.14). Time to give them a test drive...

 

Yes, looks like there are a few more there. The video driver (306.14) is not as new as the one on Windows Update (306.97) so I'm going to skip it but it might work out better for people with the IPS display because I hear NVIDIA's stand-alone drivers don't always play completely well with the premier color application.

They also posted a new driver for the free-fall sensor, which wasn't working in Windows 8 at all before. (Now I just need one for the fingerprint reader and everything will be working...)

 

Hi,

I have a M6700 with a FirePro M6000 and a i5 3320M.

Now I recently started gaming a lot again and I was wondering if I could do anything to increase my performance in games? For example BF3 will run at fullHD on high settings but just hover around 30FPS which is still a bit choppy. I myself think the CPU might be bottlenecking the GPU a bit. \

So next to the question if I can somehow increase my performance I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade the CPU?

 

Yes, it is possible to upgrade the CPU, but for BF3, it'S the GPU that is limiting you more than the CPU. Very few games really benefit from a quad core and BF3 isn't one of them. It can use multiple cores just fine, but it doesn't need a quad core. The GPU is also upgradeable by the way, any Dell Quadro Kxxxxm will be a direct drop in, you could likely use Dell gaming GPUs like the GTX680m as well.

 

Yes 680m works on M6700 however AMD heatsink is not fully compatible with nvidia heatsink. First the screws need to be replaced or peel off the x-bracket from M6000 and put it on 680m. Second is need extra thick heatpad for the ram and chips in order to get contact with the heatsink surface. I am not too serious on 2nd part and ended up 680m dead after few days.

Switching from K3/4000m to 680m can skip all above problems.

 

Or you could contact Dell and order the nVidia heatsink (if they have it in stock).

 

Hi All. New to the forum and new to Dell.

Ordered an M6700 that was supposed to ship early this week. Randomly checked today, and I couldn't bring up the order like I was able to previously (as recently as Saturday).

Dug around Dell's website and finally found a ORDER CANCELLED screen!

I've been waiting two weeks for this machine, and without any notification they cancelled the order? I already received the extra PS I had ordered just fine.

Spent 1/2 hour on the phone with three different people... (my goodness Dell's phone system sucks)... finally was told it was a technical error?? The rep will sort things out with the technical team and rush the unit out asap.

This is my first experience with Dell. I've avoided the "mail-order" style in the past, but the M6700 looks like a good enough machine that I thought I'd try it. Very frustrated to say the least.

Why their system didn't send a notification email when it cancelled itself, I have no idea. I could've been waiting for a week more with no idea.

Why I had to dictate my email address to the rep, rather than him looking up my address in the system is also beyond me.

This machine better be worth it... it'll take a lot to redeem Dell's name to me right now.

Here's the specs, if you're interested:

1
225-3508
MOBILE PRECISION M6700
1
312-1348
9-cell,97Wh,PRI Lith Batt,ECC,MPWS P4
1
318-0352
SLOT LOAD DVD+/-RW DRIVE,MPWS
1
318-2231
No CyberlinkPowerDVD,OPTI/PWS/LAT
1
318-2342
Webcam and Mic, IPS RGB,MPWS M6700
1
319-1240
8.0GB DDR3-1600MHZ,2 DIMM,MPWS MX700
1
319-1362
i7-3740QM Core (2.7GHz,6M) MWS MX700
1
320-3728
NVIDIA QuadroK3000M,2GB,GDDR5,MPWS M6700
1
320-3738
17.3US FHD(1920x1080)RGB,USH,MPWSM6700
1
330-1838
6FT,3P POWER CORD,MPWS,US
1
330-6322
WINDOWS 7 NOTEBOOK LABEL,LAT/VOS/MPWS
1
331-1249
INTERNAL BACKLIT ENGLISH KEYBOARD,MPWS
1
331-2169
DOCUMENTATION, ENG/FR, LAT E/MPWS
1
331-7894
TECH SETUP ENGLISH,MWS M4700/M6700
1
331-7910
ESTAR 5.2 ENABLED,MPWS M4700/M6700
1
331-7942
BRKT,ODD,MPWS M4700/M6700
1
331-7944
NO RAID,MPWS M4700/M6700
1
331-8104
SwipeFR,USH,Contactless SCRDR,MWPS M6700
1
331-8106
BLUETOOTH CABLE, MPWS M6700
1
331-8109
240W,3-PIN,AC ADAPTER,MPWS M6700
1
331-8122
NO VPRO TECH ADV MGMT FEATURE,MPWS M6700
1
342-4759
128GB SATA3 SS MC,NO RAID,MPWS MX700
1
342-4770
750GB,2.5,72KRPM ADD HDD,MPWS MX700
1
421-1201
DELL WEBCAM CENTRAL SW,LAT/MPWS
1
421-2262
Windows 7 XP Mode,Opti/PWS/Lat/Vost
1
421-3872
NO PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE,OPTI,PWS,LAT
1
421-6186
TRND 3.5 Bus Sec,MUI,30 DAY,OPTI/PWS/LAT
1
421-8100
WIN7 PRO,SP1,64BIT,W/MED,MWS,ENG
1
430-4642
Dell 380 BT4.0 LE Module,LAT E4/MPWS
1
430-4871
Intel UltN 6300 802.11n 3x3,MPWS
1
937-1195
HW WRTY+SVC,MWS3NBDM5,UNY,INIT,REL
1
937-1495
PS NBD OS,MWS3NBDM5,UNY,INIT,REL
1
937-1785
PS TECH SPT,MWS3NBDM5,INIT,REL
1
937-1197
HW WRTY+SVC,MWS3NBDM5,UNY,EXT,REL
1
937-1507
PS NBD OS,MWS3NBDM5,UNY,2YR EXT,REL
1
937-1789
PS TECH SPT,MWS3NBDM5,2YR EXT,REL
1
007-2988
SHIPPING AND HANDLING
1
331-1640
INTEL LABEL FOR CORE i7
1
331-8117
RESOURCE DVD W/DRIVERS,MPWS M6700
1
900-9997
ONSITE INSTL DECLINED
1
907-4339
INSTL ADDON,CLIENT,WIRELESSNET,UNY,CA
1
989-3449
INFO,PS TECH SPT CONTACT,CLIENT/CONSUMER
1
600-0043
ON $0.70 EHF NOTEBOOK