M6600 Owners Thread

Just a heads-up: the Kepler line of MxM Quadros from eBay are now advertised as compatible with the M6600:

NVIDIA Quadro K4000M N14E-Q3-A2 4GB GDDR5 for P170HM P150HM clevo M6600 upgrade | eBay

Interesting - 960 CUDA cores!

 

This may be a stupid question... does the M6600 support hard drive passwords? I am thinking of getting the new Samsung 840 Pro SSD which has 256 bit AES Encryption. I read that some systems do not support it.

Thanks

 

You do have the option to set drive passwords in the BIOS. Also, the machine has a TPM chip so you can use Windows's BitLocker feature if you have a version of Windows that supports it.

 

I only have Win 7 Pro so no Bitlocker here. The Samsung 840 PRO SSD does the encryption at the hardware level, which I read is even more secure that doing it at the software level. (ex: bitlocker, truecrypt, etc.) Supposedly there is no performance decrease doing it at the hardware level too. Here is what's on the Samsung site about the encryption of the new 840 Pro SSDs. So the BIOS can pass the command to the drive, so it should work then.

 

Well, Dell finally got back to me about my exchange, and they basically said - in many words - take the exchange or get your money back (take it or leave it basically). I filled out the form for the unresolved cases, however I don't believe I will get anywhere and will have to return the system back.

 

hello

i'm new here. i see that the "precision community" is quite strong.

i have a small dillema: Does the m4600/6600 with I5 (dual core) has only two memory bays, or does it have all four of witch just two of them work?

i have to choices: m6600 (somewhat basic) or m4600 with an IPS. (both have the dreaded I5-2520M)

cheers

LE: in both cases i'd like to upgade the cpu to a quad core i7.

 

All M6600 have the same motherboard. I believe the same is true with the M4600 for the most part (there is a different motherboard if you get the IPS display but it doesn't matter about the CPU). So, if you have a dual-core CPU, there are four memory slots and you can only use two of them. If you upgrade to a quad-core CPU then you can use all four slots. This has been tested and confirmed to work.

 

My ssd should be in tomm, just a few concerns prior to installation.

Is it better to clone, fresh install or back-up then fresh install then restore?

I have the dell disks and can use them to install, is there a difference between windows 7 from Dell and windows 7 from retail/Microsoft?

In addition I have an external drive, secondary internal drive and USB cable for sata drives, for equipment reference.

 

FWIW, when I did a reinstall on the M6600, I first used the reinstall DVD from Dell, and the second time I used an ISO of Windows 7 I downloaded and I did not find any difference between the two except for the ISO I did have to input the product code and with the Dell reinstall DVD, I did not.

 

The difference between Windows is Dell provides the ability to leave the SATA setting at RAID On - the BIOS default, and some minor customizations, e.g., Wallpaper, Dell Power Plan, USB 3.0 folder.
Standard Windows needs SATA AHCI manually set, can be burned to USB flash for fast install, also need to input license key after drivers installed.

I prefer clean install. Some get along just fine with a clone I suppose. Like I mentioned earlier - if it goes smooth then great, if not someone who's done it will have to provide help.
You can quickly try it - knowing that a clean install is always available.

Always backup especially doing something like this. Windows backup and restore works good.

Here's a Reimage Thread if you clean install, just print and check off each step as go. Get links to drivers there as well.