M6600 Owners Thread

No I downloaded the "Dell_ControlVault_A22_R308501" driver but it had no effect on the reader.

I will try your solution and let you know if it worked.

 

I just went to the below program and was good to go. win > all programs > Dell > Dell Data Protection > Access:

 

Just ordered one. Caught the 30% off coupon.

i7 2820 QM 2.3ghz
8gb 1600mhz
Quadro 3000M

Really glad to see it has an antiglare screen. That was one thing I didn't like about my 4400m. Not that I use the screen much.

 

Thanks. Any idea when 1TB will be available.

PS. After 5hrs sleep I'm back on the job.

 

This is useful. Thanks.

 

Guys, kind request: when you qoute another person, there is no need to paste the images again. Simply delete the link in the quoted text and it's gone. Also, it is bad netiquette to post under your post. Edit your previous post and add new text if you are last person who spoke in the thread.
You are making the thread harder to browse.

 

So, in theory, you could use this card for gaming as a 6970M with the above drivers, then switch to FirePro drivers to work as a workstation? I guess the biggest thing would be keeping the drivers from fouling each other up.

I did something like this with my current laptop, a Gateway M-6862 with a HD-2600 ATI card soft-modded to a FireGL V3600.

I am a new member of the forum, but have been following this thread extensively as I am considering the M6600 for college this coming fall.

Any input would be greatly valued.

 

WESTERN DIGITAL SCORPIO BLACK 750GB WD7500BPKT
OR
Seagate Momentus 750GB ST9750420AS

Any 1TB soon to be released?

Any comments on the keyboard with YZ and ZY keys, etc?

Anyone compared RAID 1 and RAID 5 on their M6600?

A quick read showed this:

■RAID 5 costs more for write-intensive applications than RAID 1.
■RAID 5 is less outage resilient than RAID 1.
■RAID 5 suffers massive performance degradation during partial outage.
■RAID 5 is less architecturally flexible than RAID 1.
■Correcting RAID 5 performance problems can be very expensive.

 

Mine just arrived today, 16 days ahead of 'schedule'.

FWIW, upgraded factory memory (2x2GB) with 4x4GB PNP 1866 memory from newegg, Windows performance index for memory went from 5.9 to 7.9. ($300 from Newegg, which was cheaper than the OEM upgrade to 16GB by a wide margin)

If anyone has any benchmarks they would like me to run with the memory modules, I'd be more than happy to give it a rip.

My Crucial 128GB SSD should be here tomorrow...can't wait to pop 'er in.

Love everything so far except for the front edge of the laptop, bites into my forearms when i type.

 

Why do you want to keep replacing drivers. AMD FP8900 driver will work with games as well. You do not have to mod 6970m drivers. Simply install it as 8900 and games wouldn't refuse to work with it.
Games will play smoothly on this, it will actually be fast as hell (as for a laptop card). Additionally, driver will give you advantage in engineering apps.