M6600 Owners Thread

Dell say the 17" precision can do raid5 iirc. People did raid 0 with 2.5" + msata(as in pluged in msata slot) on alienware.

 

As the Intel diagram shows below, the QM67 chipset used in the M6600 and similar systems offers six total SATA ports with 0 + 1 being up to SATA-III and 2, 3, 4, and 5 being up to SATA-II.

With that said, look at my second photo below. Every time I see that, it does give me an self-serving ego boost .......even if it is just a HWiNFO utiltiy error. It would be cool if the mSATA port was up to SATA-III, but that is not the case (unless Intel quietly updated something as an early Holiday present). :thumbsup:

Scott-

 

Thanks, Scott. I think I got it. I'll try later and see if it works.

 

Maybe some one can make a MXM to SATA kind of thing to satisfy you ~~, or can try somehow chain those millions mpcie slot to some sata...

 

Hello, new M6600 owner, the manual (sm_en.pdf Rev.A00) documents 5 device status lights, I have 6, the 6th one is a lock with a "9" in it and it is on all the time, what does it mean ?

 

Found it, numeric keypad lock.

 

Any experience with different bios'es and throttling?

I seem to get constant CPU throttling in prime+furmark, often as low as 800MHz. I thought it was from the XM + 7970M combination, but the same happens with a lowly i7-2630QM, which probably consumes at least 30W less when properly stressed (Review Sandy Bridge (Core i7) Update; the 2920XM consumes some 25W max. over the 2630QM according to the same source). I have tried all possible power plans, incl. original Windows ones; I even reinstalled the OS and tested everything on "clean"... I am running on A12.

It could of course be that the 7970M is the culprit (it's an Alienware card not recognized by the bios but otherwise working flawlessly), but I wonder if in your experience the bios'es made a difference in this respect. (I assume I can still move back to older versions, like A10, if necessary...)

Also, if I Throttlestop, the GPU gets throttled to 450MHz (from 850).

 

That is interesting....I don't have a SATA III mSATA card. Is there any way you know to benchmark speed on it to see if it has the SATA III speeds?

On the slight chance that it does, what or where do you suppose the update was from?

On hwinfo mine shows SATA II for my mSATA SSD (which it is). Do you think that it's possible for hwinfo to show the rated speed for a SSD card instead of the actual that could be supported on the device by the chipset?

Chris

 

You can use the Intel Rapid Storage utility to check what speed you're getting on each SATA port. M6600 only has SATA-2 on the mSATA port, that's not going to change unfortunately.

 

Correct...

Scott-