M6600 Owners Thread

Not much difference, guess overclocking is a no go for me (plus my gpu is already running hotter than normal). Called up dell regarding the temps and I was told that these are just fine, exceeding them would be a problem. According to me they are still on the higher side.

Will run the benchmarks again with more ram when I get my hands on HyperX modules (Which might take a while as the person who supplies them is out of town for a week or two), that should close the diff. in the performance a bit. Meanwhile anyone with a firepro M8900 and an SSD wanna do the benchmarks?

 

does someone got the m8900 recognized as a 6970?

 

HWinfo does read the M8900 as blackcomb 6970 XT.

Guess that's not the answer to your question. If you are asking that 8900M can behave as 6970 or officially recognized as one using different driver, there was someone earlier who did that. Don't know which drivers he was using though.

 

Hey Guys,
So my M6400 Covet is being replaced with an M6600 tomorrow. FedEX shows it being delivered tomorrow anyway. I have the BOM which I have pasted below and have a couple of questions.

1. The Display on my Covet is the RGBLED E2E display at 1920 X 1200. The new one is not. It is listed as the anti glare display. Is the other display with the multitouch a glossy finish?

2. I run dual OCZ Vertex III drives in RAID-0 presently. Would asking for the 128GB SSD Minicard as a concession for the screen being of lower spec be reasonable do you think?

3. Is there anything in the BOM I could ask to be upgraded as a concession? I think I have pretty much the higest spec of everything but the HDD which I have replaced with SSD's anyway. I suppose I could ask for more memory, but I am gonna replace it with after market memory anyway. If they will give me 32GB which is a $6500 upgrade I think I would jump on it. But otherwise, i don't see myself as needing Dell memory as a concession.

Thanks!!!


Order Detail

Qty Part # Description
--- -------- ---------------------------------------------
1 225-0379 Dell Mobile Precision M6600
1 310-0173 Airborne Documentation, System Exchanges,Factory Install
1 312-1174 9-cell (97Wh) Primary Battery, Dell Mobile Precision
1 317-6076 Intel Core i7-2920XM Extreme Quad Core 2.50GHz 8MB, Dell Mobile Precision M4600/M6600
1 317-6497 8.0GB, DDR3-1333 SDRAM, 4 DIMM, Dell Mobile Precision
1 318-0352 Slot Load DVD+/-RW Drive, Dell Mobile Precision
1 318-0360 Integrated webcam with single digital microphone, HD/Full HD, Dell Mobile Precision M6600
1 318-0364 Full HD+ LCD Cover, Dell Mobile Precision M6600
1 320-1921 NVIDIA Quadro 4000M with 2GB GDDR5, Dell Mobile Precision M6600
1 320-1925 17.3" UltraSharp FHD(1920x1080) Wide View Anti-Glare LED-backlit with Premium Panel Guarantee
1 330-1838 US - 6-FT, 3-Pin Flat Power Cord for Mobile Precision
1 330-4127 210W/240W switchable Slim 3-Pin, AC Adapter Dell Precision M6400
1 330-6322 Genuine Windows 7 Label, Latitude, Vostro and Mobile Precision Notebooks
1 331-1249 Internal Backlit English Keyboard, Dell Mobile Precision
1 331-1263 Slot Load Bezel, Dell Mobile Precision
1 331-1277 FIPS Certified Fingerprint Reader and Contactless Smartcard Reader, Dell Mobile Precision M6600
1 331-1642 Intel Core i7 Extreme Label, Latitude/Mobile Precision
1 331-1865 No Intel vPro Technology Advanced Management Features, Dell Mobile Precision M6600
1 331-2169 Documentation (English/French), Dell Latitude E-Family/Mobile Precision
1 331-2809 Tech Setup Guide, English, Dell Mobile Precision
1 331-3039 Energy Star 5.0 Enabled, Dell Mobile Precision M4600/M6600
1 331-3300 Dell Back-up and Recovery Manager for Win7, MUI,Optiplex, Precision, Latitude
1 342-2361 250GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM, Dell Mobile Precision
1 342-2435 All Hard Drives Non-RAID, Dell Mobile Precision
1 421-1201 Dell Webcam Central Software Dell Latitude/Mobile Precision
1 421-2262 Windows 7 XP Mode,Opti/PWS/Lat/Vost
1 421-3872 No Productivity Software,Dell OptiPlex,Precision and Latitude
1 421-4370 Cyberlink Power DVD 9.5,No Media, Dell OptiPlex, Latitude and Precision Workstation
1 421-4539 Roxio Creator Starter,No Media,Dell OptiPlex, Latitude and Precision Workstation
1 421-8067 Genuine Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, No Media, Latitude, English
1 430-3979 Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth Module, ROW, Dell Latitude E/Mobile Precision
1 430-4017 Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300, Dell Mobile Precision

 

With Dell drivers its in device manager as Firepro 8900, with reference drivers it's in device manager as Radeon 6970.

 

How soon before we can order an IPS screen on the M6600 ?

 

Don't think anyone knows yet.

 

Don't know about the Sony you have mentioned there. However, I ordered mine with the Tray load DVD-RW and bought a UJ-242 off of E-Bay. I got some seller out of Texas. It was $250.

Anyway. If fits and works just fine. It's a 9.5mm drive. Installing the new optical drive was EASY. One screw, and plug and play.

A word of caution. While the seller I bought from did work with me, the first UJ-242 he shipped would not eject. The replacment works fine though.

I, like you, saved a ton by going that route.

 

Yes my table summarizing read/write showed Dell stock 128GB mSSD with Dell stock 2 x 750GB RAID 0 was wicked fast with 1.5TB storage.

I use to live on the edge with my M6400 2 x 500GB RAID 0 untill I had one *&^% headache when the RAID O was corrupted.

So I want safety first then speed. There is nothing like the security of traveling with RAID 1 knowing that if one HD has a problem you're safe.

How is yours setup?
mSSD boot/OS with RAID 0 or 1?

I can see mSSD boot/OS with RAID 0 is slightly safer then RAID 0 alone.

But mSSD boot/OS with RAID 1 is less safe then RAID 1 alone.

Is there a way to have mSSD boot/OS also imaged or backed up on the RAID 1 such that if there is a glitch with the mSSD one can boot off the RAID 1 and repair the mSSD?

 

But BIOS will show thermal events so there could be evidence ... and since they've built the M6600 to be well within thermal limits ...