Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Has anybody with the M6700 with Premiercolor opened up the display assembly and looked at the LG Panel part number, I just want to confirm it.

Thanks.

 

RGBLED IPS screen here. "Plug and Play ID: LGD0310"

 

Thank you, these are the ones I am looking at as well. As far as I remember 3740QM/M6700 is guaranteed to work only with 16GB of 1866 ones. Hopefully it will prove otherwise.
Mikhail

 

Good luck. Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz 2x4Gb is confirmed not working with M6700, hopefully the 2x8Gb will work.

 

Yup, I saw this thread over at Corsair's forum before purchasing the memory. I picked it up from Amazon because their product return policy is top-notch and they provide a free shipping label for returns. I suspect Kingston will have a 1866Mhz kit out shortly (I've emailed them to ask about it). When they do then I'll jump on that if this doesn't work.

Finally, I noticed that Anandtech was just sent Intel's new 525 mSATA SSD. It is the 180GB version and is Sandforce-based but with custom firmware. Hopefully these will be available within a few weeks.

 

Makes no sense and the best way to insure a product fails. If that's true, Corsair needs to do more research and development BEFORE releasing a product. Keep us posted.

 

Hello,

I've got an M6700 with a i5 3320M because I was being cheap at the time of buying and finances weren't so good. Now everything is much better and I feel like the i5 is bottlenecking my system and I want to upgrade.

Now a friend is willing to trade his i7 3610QM for my i5 3320M and offcourse a small amount of money (He doesn't use his laptop much, And when he does it's just for browsing that's why he offered)

The thing however is, I don't know if the switch is even possible. I've looked at both CPU's and they have the same socket but besides that I have no idea if it's possible, I have plenty of experience with building desktops and fiddling arround with desktop CPU's but this is entirely new to me.

I hope someone can help me out with this.

 

If the CPU is one of the ones offered in the M6700 then you can swap it out, no problem. (I'm not sure about other models. Naturally you'll need a "mobile" CPU, but any Ivy Bridge CPU that fits the bill should work.) There are directions for performing a CPU swap in the manual on the Dell support site. You might want to re-paste the thermal compound on the heatsink/CPU while you're at it.

The only thing to worry about is if you upgrade to one of the "Extreme" 39?0XM CPUs, you will need a new heatsink.

 

So I switched CPU's but when I put the i5 3320M into the MSI GT70 (My friends laptop) the laptop doesn't boot. Fans ect start spinning but no screen. Yet as soon as I put in the old CPU it boots like normal.

Any idea's?

 

A non-responsive system can mean many things... I'd suggest going to the MSI forum and posting the question. There is a vibrant community of GT70 owners over there.

I'll make a general comment about CPU upgrades in laptops based on my recent experience with Lenovo. I originally bought a Lenovo W520 with a Core i7-2720QM. I bought a Core i7-2960XM from an Intel authorized Channel partner a couple months later. It took almost 2 months to get from Intel's factory it but I thought I was doing the right thing by going through a reputable store. Besides straining the already weak cooling system in the W520 (I also spent $300+ on the 55W heatsink which still couldn't handle the heat output), everything worked fine for a few months.

I eventually found a problem in the processor's memory controller that required a warranty replacement. Intel refused to help as this was a "tray" (OEM) processor (they're called tray processors because the come in a egg-carton like tray designed for a more than a dozen processors). The problem is that Intel only sold the 2720QM and 2820QM as retail units (with warranties) at the time. None of the Extreme CPUs were available as anything but tray processors. Intel even refused to help the reseller. Eventually, the reseller offered to refund the processor. In other words, they were willing to eat the cost of the $1100 defective CPU.

The moral of the story is this: While laptops are upgradeable (until the retina MacBook and ultrabook style take over the industry leaving us with Clevo/Sager) these days, get a laptop with the CPU you need. If you do a CPU upgrade then only get a retail box if you need support because the laptop manufacturer won't help you (for obvious reasons). If no retail boxes are available then be prepared to lose the money you spend. In the case of an Intel Extreme processor, this could be north of a $1000. When doing CPU swaps, understand that Intel won't help you as that is an OEM processor and chances are the original laptop manufacturer won't help either. Again, be aware of the risk.