M6600 Owners Thread

Bokeh, I'm curious if you could get a picture of the bracket underneath the card that the HSF screws into and on top of the card..

Thank you.

 

I did get pics of the bracket. Sorry I got delayed posting them. Fussy 3 month old keeping me busy

 

Here and Cheers. (10char).

 

@Star Forge: Thanks a lot! +rep Going to try this as soon as possible.

 

Hi, I have had my M6600 for three weeks now and I'm very satisfied with it's performence. I use it mostly for CADwork in Solidworks and Autodesk Inventor.

I have one issue though:
I bought it with 8GB 1600MHz RAM and upgraded with further 2x4GB KINGSTON 1600MHz DDR3 CL9 SODIMM XMP.

In BIOS the RAM speed is shown as 1333MHz (4 x 4096MB) .
Do I need to change any settings to get them to run at 1600MHz ?

Thank you.


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M6600: i7-2920XM : 16GB RAM : Quadro 4000M graphics : 2x 120GB Vertex 3 MAX IOPS in RAID0

 

Everything is posted in my review now. I put all of the CPU/GPU/Thermal stuff in as the second post. I had reserved the first 3 slots in that thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...large-pics-personal-opinions.html#post7744918

 

Ok, not sure if hwinfo is messed up but I ran Total War: Empires for an hour and half at gpu settings at 825/1100 with no problems. my temps reached the following at the highest points: thermal diode-83, ts0-83, ts1-92.5, ts2-88.5

Also using sapphire I changed the fan speed to change with temp changes and the max speed hit was 400 rpm (100%).

Now for the confusion, set at 825/1100, the max core/mem speeds are 825/3175. So is this correct? The system was 100% stable throughout and still is.

 

I am looking for a NICE, durable messenger-style laptop bag (not a backpack style) for my new M6600.

I had an M6500 before and the Booq messenger bag that I had just won't quite fit for the M6600 and they don't have a larger format bag. Looking for something like that...

Any suggestions? What is everyone else using?

Thanks much!

Zack
Dell M6600
Dell M6500

 

M6600 in quiet room has noticable static type noise that oscillates.
Anyone else have this? Any fixes?

 

I'm assuming it's not just the fans speeding up and slowing down with varying load. If it's not that, it's probably choke or capacitor whine. And if that's what it is, it's not uncommon in newer computers in general and there isn't really anything that you can do about it. My W700ds did it, my w500 does it, I'm pretty sure the Dell d630 I'm borrowing at the moment does it. I've got desktops at work that do it, my nebook does it... frankly it's more common than not in my experience.

*shrug* My only suggestion is to get used to it, because chances are pretty decent that anything you'd replace the M6600 with will do it under the right conditions too.