M6600 Owner's Review - Warning - Large pics - Personal Opinions

Hello,
i've bought a M6600 last week directly from the dell web site.

I chose :
HDD 1 : 128 ssd samsung
HDD 2 : 750 sata
Intel i7 2820
8 go ram
quadro 4000M
tactile screen
windows seven 64

So that's for the system description, and now is my question.
This configuration is sloower with 32 bits application than my old M6300 (dual core T9500 3go ram, nvidia Quadro Fx 1600M, HDD 250 go).

I already tried to reinstall my computer with new intel drivers shared on the intel web site. It's still lagging. For example, to launch my developpement application it takes about 25 s on the M6300 and almost 1 min or more on the new m6600... My 6300 is on win xp Pro Sp3 32b.

I tried to install the M6600 with xp pro. Still be slow...

How can i fixe this problem? Are you all using 64 b application on the M6600 ? Could it be a ram issue?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

(sorry for my poor english... )

math

 

I run 64 bit versions of Windows 7. Everything is much faster than it was on my M6300.

What is the application you are running? Are you having to run it in a compatibility mode or vm?

 

I tried in compatibility mode, still the same.

It's a dedicated developpement tool for programming automation systems. It's a 32b application.

math

 

I am using a 32 bit dev environment in win 7 64 bit as well on the 6600. There should be somewhat of a slow down - e.g. memory alignment related - but my first suspect is that the larger drive on your new system is a slower one. True?

Did you try to run it both from your SSD and the 750 drive?

My 32-bit app server with app deployed loads in 26 seconds from my SSD, it loaded in 17-18 seconds on an older system with a RAID-5 array.

 

just to double check.... The only way to get a m6600 with 4 ram slots is to get an i7 version?

 

No, they all come with 4 slots.

Only the i7 can utilize 4 slots though.


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Only the QUAD CORE i7 can use 4 slots. The dual core i7 will only use 2 slots.

 

So if I get the i5 version it has 4 slots, but I need a i7 in order to use more than 2 of them, right?


Do all versions come with 4 mPCIe slots, or do the non WAN ones have one less, etc...

are they a true mPCIe or USB/mSATA?

 

mSATA, WWAN, WiFi. I think they only have 3 mPCI-e.

And yes, all the slots are there even for the i5 version.

 

So just to make sure I am right there are 3 different types of 1920x1080p panels out there for the M6600??

1. IPS Panel
2. Standard LED
3. LED Touchscreen

I am going to get my unit exchanged as I needed the optimus option and the IPS does not offer that. Any suggestion on 2 or 3??