M6600 Owners Thread

msata is SATA 2. It could affect it in a small way but if after adding office updates it takes 10 secs. longer then maybe something went wrong during the update.

What version of office do you have?

 

2010. It was Microsoft office service pack I believe.

Sent from my SPH-L710

 

there is a SP2 for office 2010. SP1 isn't required to update to it.

Download Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 32-Bit Edition from Official Microsoft Download Center

Description of Office 2010 Service Pack 2

List of all Office 2010 SP2 packages

All the Microsoft sites have been messed up lately, sheesh.

 

Wow, I had an issue of overheating on my Dell M6600 , my quadro's 5000m temp on idle was 60+ deg and the CPU (i7 2920XM) was bouncing between 60-80 even when I was surfing the web. Watching Youtube with flash player made the cpu go to 76 deg and the video card was also reaching 70+ degs.
Trying to watch a movie was a disaster , the quadro would reach up to 80+ celcius and the temp would rise till 100 degs and then the dell just shut down .
So even though I tried already cleaning it without removing the fans and it yielded nothing, I decided to try once more.
I teared down the whole laptop and once removing the cpu fan I saw lots of dust blocking the ribs completely which caused the air from being blown outside, to stay and heat even more the cpu.
Did the same to the gpu fan, removed it and cleaned all the dust on the ribs , since there was so much dust I knew that was the problem and dropped the idea of repasting the cpu and gpu.
Once I powered it on, I noticed that the laptop was so quiet and I thought my fans were damaged but everything was ok , I just got used to having a halicopter sound coming out the fans LOL.
Now my idle temps are 40 on both the cpu and gpu and everything works great! on heavy workloads the gpu never gets more than 76 where in the past it would reach 100 degs (because when it reached 70 degs it had hard time cooling it ,so the temp would rise systematically till 100 degs) and get my laptop shut down.
Finally happy to use this beast!!! been so stupid not cleaning it .

BTW I override the throttling by using throttle stop with "Clock modulation 100%" turned on, this way I can get this beast up to 100 degs without throttling !

 

I wouldn't really push it to 100C just because ~~

You can clean the cpu heatsink by just removing the fan in the back, gpu is more annoying, but you don't need the lift the heatsink for that aswell.

The one thing the m6700 is i love is that both fan is removable from the back ~~

 

yes I know , at first I was sure that I had to repast and I hate dell for not making the gpu fan removable from the back like the cpu.

 

I got a ~10*C decrease in temps just by redoing the original CPU pastejob (on two different i5-2520M M6600 notebooks). Worth a try as well.

 

Just popped m500 240gb msata (instead samky 830 2.5") into my m6600 and I can say that I see no difference between sata2 and sata3 speeds in my day to day workflow. But having an extra 1tb drive makes life easyer.

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What card is it? Is it 5010m or K5000m? If it's the second one, then temps should be lower.

I think you should've refresh the paste on it, too Even modern pastes are getting dry and oxidised easily so, they loose their qualities relatively fast. Unless, it is some metal based one like coollaboratory.

Recently I played a little with different compunds. Initially I had some Antec compound, which I placed on the CPU and GPU instead of already dried Dell paste. This one was getting worse every month (nearly) and wasn't special at all. My m8900 temps kept growing and it died pretty quickly. Ribs were blocked very little and not enough to cause the temps grow this high. It started reachaing temps over 90'C and card died soon.

I changed the GPU for 675m and tested the AS5. Worked much better for both CPU and GPU. Additionally, I added a brick of thick thermal strap under the GPU card, just to cover the area under the GPU chip. It worked great.
675m died quite unexpectedly and as a replacement I received 680m. Used AS5 again. 3dMark2011 temp reached 68'C in the max. Seemed bit high so, I replaced it with Collaboratory Ultra, but in the same time I removed the pad from underneath the card. Temps reached 66'C at the max and average is lower now.
Seems like still could go lower so, I am planning to give it another go (in couple weeks maybe) and place the thermal pad between the card and the mobo again, just to check if I can get even lower.

 

68*C max a bit high? Seems excellent to me.

And as a rule, AS and AC compounds should be both widely available, pretty cheap, adequate in performance and well-tested/reliable. They seem to me a baseline of sorts (and I, for one, would not bother with anything else).