M6600 Owners Thread

Weird throttling problem with 2960XM and 7970M.

In prime+furmark, my M6600 used to keep the GPU at stock clocks and downclock the CPU somewhat (around ~2GHz). Now it keeps at the CPU clocked higher (~2.7-3GHz), but downclocks the GPU (450MHz, mem at max). This happens irrespective of the order in which I start the programs.

I have been unable to find an explanation for this change in behavior, and temperature certainly is no problem.

 

Can you report your 2960XM temperatures during such a test? I mean, when they are not throttled down below 2.7 GHz.. TIA.

 

Some 92-3*C. What's your experience with the 2920XM?

 

Thanks @landsome. My experience with 2920XM is very similar - even up to 95C on some cores when stressing with Prime 95.

Interestingly, when I run real-life applications like CUDA-accelerated number-crunching (Moldflow), or video playback/encoding (Vegas Pro), the CPU temperatures are considerably lower (up to 85C). But the most interesting part is that - even with heavy GPU usage - its temperature never exceeds 65C, staying at 60C most of the time!

 

I have the same. (2920XM CPU).

Best Regards,
Alex.

 

I have 2 M6600 notebooks and it wouldn't let me install PowerDVD. Gave me a message "This service tag not supported" which is strange because one of the notebooks came with PowerDVD.

 

Don't know what to make of it for PDVD. I've only downloaded Roxio one time for a quick ISO extraction - installed from setup.exe on HDD, and didn't burn to DVD.
Your guess is as good as mine, you downloaded it so that worked. If it needs some service tag validation to install then that's a problem.
Maybe Call Dell techsupport.

 

I got the same error. It's not an error from the PowerDVD installer, the "The service tag is not supported" error comes when trying to register your system to get access to the factory downloads.

 

Hey guys, I have a question. I have an M6600 with an ATI graphics card in it that does not have the switchable graphics option. Is there any way possible I can get this upgrade/make this change with this particular laptop, or will I have to buy a new M6700 that has the ability to do that out of the box. I am really looking to save some battery life, as I do not always need the graphics card to be in use.

Thanks in advance for any help given!

 

There's no way to get graphics switching with the AMD/ATi cards on the M6600 (or M6700). The best you can do is physically disconnect the graphics card, then the laptop will boot up using the Intel GPU. But that's probably too much hassle for most people.

If you want graphics switching on a Precision, you'll have to get NVIDIA.