M4700 Owners Thread

I'm not aware of any option from Dell that normally fills the slot. It is a standard half-size mini-PCIe card slot. You could use it for a second WiFi card. You could use it for a WWAN card if you can find one that is half-size (there's at least some out there but most are full-size). You could use it for something like this which lets you mount some micro SD cards internally for extra storage.

 

It's for the encryption module actually.

 

What encryption module? Just curious, never heard of it before.

 

It is or was an option in the configuration. Instead of having the CPU handle the encryption, Dell had an option to add a module responsible for drive encryption, probably with their own software instead of bitlocker, truecrypt, etc.

 

New to the forums and have a really interesting issue. M4700 w/K1000m & QMi7. So when speedfan is active, there is a constant ticking noise (like a clock), regardless if the speakers are muted or not. If speedfan is closed, the noise is not present. The noise is constant in timing and sound. Any clues?
And it definitely is not the HDD: swapped from the bay and checked.

 

Hi, I asked some questions to this thread last year when I was considering an M4700, but ultimately decided to put it off. I'm back in the market again, except this time I'm also going to consider the M6700 (I didn't find an M6700 owners thread) or possibly the Precision T1700 desktop mini-tower (also no thread on that).

Does anyone here know much about the T1700 desktop (which is the lowest end of the Precision desktops but the only one with a small case size I can live with)? Are they generally higher quality components and better reliability that the other Dell desktops?

Other than larger screen size and more expandability in hard drives (which are the main reasons I now like the M6700) what are the main advantages of the M6700 over the 4700? Do they generally run hotter or cooler than the 4700?

 

You missed the M6700 owner's thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...82401-dell-precision-m6700-owners-thread.html.

The M6700 from what I can tell, runs a tad cooler than the M4700 and the fans tend to cycle on/off less, but that is always dependent on your ambient temperature and whether the heatsinks are making good contact with the GPU/CPU. You can also have a mSATA and WWAN card at the same time in the M6700.

The M6700 has a 6-pin firewire port (not likely to matter to you) too.

 

Though this is about M4600, it should be similar to M4700, some times the GPU gets throttled and stays at 202 MHz (Quadro 2000m) when plugged in, this happened few times when I'm playing games, I don't think lack of power is an issue here, I'm using a 210w adapter, but it's docked, no idea if that has anything to do with it.

I don't think anything's overheating, CPU gets to 88c (which seems a bit high considering I'm not even using anything like Prime95 or Intel Burn Test?), GPU gets to 65c under heavy load.

The only way I can fix this is to restart the system.

 

Cool, thanks for that. I might look into what other toys I can plug in there seeing as I don't need the encryption module.

 

Try plug the adapter direct to the machine instead of the dock, that stop my gpu getting weired throttle.