M6600 Owners Thread

Please someone help me...
I would like to know if its possible (and if possible how to do) to watch 3D movies on my machine.
The system configuration is:
Dell Precision M6600

Intel® Core™ i7-2920XM (Extreme Quad Core 2.50GHz,8M cache) with Turbo BoostTechnology 2.0

Genuine Windows® 7 Ultimate,w XP Mode, No Media, 64-bit, English

Blu-ray Disc™ with Roxio and Cyberlink PDVD™

16.0GB, DDR3-1600MHz SDRAM, 4 DIMMS

NVIDIA® Quadro® 4000M with 2GB GDDR5

17.3" UltraSharp™ FHD(1920x1080) Wide View LED Multi-Touch w/Stylus, Premium Panel Guarantee

128GB (SATA3) Mobility Solid State Drive

Thanks.

 

I'm seeing Max 3.3 GHz (single core) but with all 4 cores doing video conversion they typically are all steady at ~2.8 GHz.
2720QM, Quadro 3000M, 16GB RAM, 2 x 500GB HD, Win 7 64-bit, BIOS AO3, and excellent battery life.

By the way what is the Max (single core) and steady 4/4 core frequency for highest rated quad CPU in the M6600?

 

I am using windows 7..

 

Have you guys checked if the latest BIOS offers any overclocking for the extreme editions? These CPU's can be easily pushed up to 4.5GHz if the system BIOS allows it. My M18x is at 4.0-4.5GHz 24/7 and the only reason I can't go higher is because of the cooling system limitations.

The way it works is the CPU will auto clock itself anywhere from 800mhz to up to 3.2Ghz (2920xm) on all cores depending on the load. Now, I'm talking about 4cores/8threads only here. You can't force it stay at 3.2 if there's no load and it will also auto-downclock itself if the temp is too high (85C+). Assuming, no OC'ing options are present in the BIOS that's your max. The new 2960XM chip will go up to 3.4 on all cores, provided the program can utilize all cores and the temps are under 85C. If the BIOS is/will be unlocked you can push it as far as 5ghz on all cores but only theoretically, since there's no way a notebook cooling system can manage the temps.

 

I have the same problem as polar.

However, in my case I am sure I have a non-dell windows as I installed win 7 myself. I downloaded every possible driver from the dell support page but the clock speed still won't go over 2.2GHz.

Turbo is enabled in BIOS, i have Bios A04 with a 2720 QM Processor. i use prime95 to stress test, have tried every worker thread configuration possible and use CPU-Z to monitor the processor.

Do you use a Dell windows copy ?

 

Shouldn't make any difference. Could you please run Prime95 (8 threads) with HWinfo64 or Throttlestop running in the background, so that you can see both the temps and clocks.

 

I used CPU burn for the screen shot.

 

I opened CPU-Z also as I'm not so sure that HWINFO64 works right because it always shows ~2.2GHz, even in Idle, whereas CPU-Z records 800MHz in Idle.

 

It shows [locked] for the 3.3Ghz in HWinfo. If it doesn't go above 2.2 even for a brief moment - I'd say something is definitely wrong. Contact Dell.


Edit: try the following: Control Panel -> Power Options -> change Power settings -> change advanced power settings -> scroll down to processor power management -> check the maximum power state - it should be 100%.

 

sadly, it is 100%
I'm leaning towards saying that the A04 BIOS is faulty