M6600 Owners Thread

Increase the brightness by one notch?

 

That is good, I have used that system for the past year now but it gets a bit tedious. It is three notches from zero brightness before the flickering goes away.
My worry is that is it a hardware problem or rather an bios problem.

 

Some specific display panels are known to have this issue in the M6600 and M6700. (I think they are LG panels? Not sure / don't remember.) You will have to swap it out for a different display panel if you want to use it at low brightness.

 

Yep only solution was to RMA while machine was under warranty. Certain LG panel model had this issue. Even dell internal issue designation was circulating around here.

 

It came to my attention that after upgrading my precision m6600 to i7-2760qm, the CPU temperature is quite high in gaming. When playing call of duty black ops III with GTX 680m (clocked at 950mhz core and 1150mhz memory) the CPU is hitting 90c for quite a bit of time but the game wasn't slowing down. I've already reapplied my MX-4 paste but the temperature stays high still. The i7-3720qm in my m6700 never hit 80c playing the same game. I wonder if the cpu heatsink in m6600 isn't powerful enough to dissipate all the heat. Is it a way to bring down the temperature?

(The GPU is under 80c with full load)

 

That is high, Im using the i7 2670qm in my m4600 and a quick CPU bench with stock fan config hits about 77 in the hottest core, max fan being 70 on the core with cores forced to max via ThrottleStop (2.8Ghz)

 

Where to find the AMD Firepro M6100 graphics driver for Dell Precision M6600 in Windows 7?

I cannot find the dedicated driver with my M6600 service tag.

Google result shows only M5100 driver in M6600, and M6100 driver for M6800

If anyone can give the advice or your experience, I would appreciate this.

Thank you in advance.

 

You need to go to AMD's site, not Google. Try this driver: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation/mobile?oem=Dell&os=Windows 7 - 64#
The driver for the M6800 might actually work, but AMD's driver search came up with the above driver for the M6600.

 

thank you imrazor!
I will give it a try.

 

Hello dear M6600 proud owners. Do you think the M6600 will work with GTX 765m taken from Alienware laptop? Google does not tell me the answer. Still the FirePro M6100 is the best GPU for the buck?
GTX I found here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alienware-M...446212?hash=item3f7156b004:g:wSIAAOSw241YUapa

Firepro I found here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precis...862902?hash=item5b35d03ab6:g:3VgAAOSwdGFY4nQn

Thanks in advance.

 

@Sandisxxx I can't speak from direct experience, but every time I've asked this question in this thread, I've been told the fastest Nvidia card that will work is a GTX 680M. According to previous posters, this is due to BIOS whitelisting and so far I've been unable to locate a hacked BIOS to allow a 700 or greater series Geforce.