M6600 Owners Thread

Dell USA Outlet policy is the SAME as the retail side -

Up to 21 says after delivery to return and the standard 1-3 year warranty.

Scott-

 

Newegg.com or Amazon.com.

Good value and performance option: G.SKILL 16GB (2 x 8G) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model F3-1600C10D-16GSQ

OEM preferred: Samsung 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600MHz PC3-12800S (M471B1G73BH0-CK0)

Nice, snappy, and cool looking: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory (CMSX16GX3M2A1600C10)

Scott-

 

Thanks for that info...just weird that the return form I had to complete said 15 days.

 

Thank you...looks like the G.Skill is the one.

 

Type 'dell keyboard backlight settings' into search. It brings up the different options for the keyboard in there.

 

Thank you!

 

Hi everybody!

I need some help. While disassembling to repaste, on removing the palm rest, I ended up with two pieces of wire (see pic) which, I assume, were used for the button that keeps the lid closed. The springs are still there and the button comes back after being pressed, but the screen latches are no longer properly released - they no longer spring - when I push the button. I cannot seem to find the right way to put them back. Any assistance is appreciated.

 

Here is a quick (low quality) photo that should give you an idea of how to reinsert the latch springs. Hope it helps.

Scott

 

I have looked into this and i really don't think that the mSATA slot is (II 2) i think that the drives dell sells are 2 the intel controller card looks like it handles 6/Gbs just dell dosent offer them. but you can buy a mSATA drive somewhere else that is a III 3 speed and you will not lose anything but gain space

The whole idea of the mount is to have a quick change hot swap drive I've moved my m6600 around drying to get the drive to fail without the screws in drive 1 and i couldn't get it to fail having a hot swap for drive one is the best way to get operating systems changed on the fly as long as you have your linux set up to read NTSF or have FATex set up you could change from linux to windows buy just pulling out the battery, (you have to remove the screws marks HDx4 and the one that locks the eject switch so 5 total on the other hand you would also boot off of a mSATA and have a 2 large drives but one would be hot swap if your not into multi OS, 3rdley LOL you can get an adapter to convert mSATA to 2.5 SSD and do a RAID 5 with 4 identical disks if you wanted. also the sound issue i saw on another post happens when you use the back USB/eSATA port they share a bus i bet everything but the video is on the southbridge and the video any maybe the raid share the northbridge past models used the southbridge but since the sata speeds have gone up i think it takes more processing power now so intel RST has change but Im not sure on that. I do know my RAID 5 on my old ich7 is almost 1gb and that blows away the best of the best SSD single drives and would rate at a 15 if WEI would go that far LOL

 

The mSATA is SATA II, it is due to a chipset limitation on series 6 (and series 7) chipsets, there are only two SATA III ports available on the PCH and the rest is SATA II. Dell chose to have the two SATA III ports wired to the two 2.5" drive bays meaning any other SATA device (mSATA, eSATA and ODD) are wired to the SATA II ports.

Also, Dell uses Samsung PM830 mSATA drives now which are definitely SATA III capable.

Side note, as of the first gen core i series, there is no longer a Northbridge/Southbridge design with Intel, the memory controller, the pci-e lanes usually used for the video (at least for SNB and IB) were moved directly to the CPU and the rest of the functions were incorporated into a single chip called the Platform Controller Hub (PCH). That does mean that almost everything transits through the PCH though, USB, Network, SATA, etc.

Afaik, the GPU is hooked to the PCI-E lanes directly connected to the CPU on the M6600, they are for the M6700, that i know for sure since they are the only PCI-E 3.0 lanes available.