M6600 Owners Thread

Just reviewed my order and apparently I selected it somewhere:

"Genuine Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, with Media, Mobile Precision, English"

Matt

 

Dell-Mano,

mSSD (HD 1, boot/OS) with RAID 0 (HDs 2 and 3) is slightly safer then RAID 0 alone (no mSSD).

But mSSD (HD 1, boot/OS) with RAID 1 (HDs 2 and 3) is less safe then RAID 1 alone (no mSSD).

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?

 

In that situation Raid 5 would make more sense.

 

Ran some tests on the 3000M. Not sure if these are 100% correct or not. Numbers seem low to me. This machine does have a dual core processor while the one with the 4000M has the 2920XM quad core.

SPECViewperf 11.0 - Quadro 3000M

Viewset Composite Multisample Performance
catia-03 32.41 no result
ensight-04 22.87 no result
lightwave-01 39.92 no result
maya-03 49.86 no result
proe-05 8.76 no result
sw-02 34.44 no result
tcvis-02 27.46 no result
snx-01 24.89 no result

3D Mark 06 - Quadro 3000M OC
14,702 (Not a bad score at all, but the Quadro 4000M is 40% faster)

 

Seems for gaming the quadro 3000 is on par with the 460gtx.

 

Hello,
Today I have done some gaming tests and benchmark with my m6600 (2720m, m8900 firepro, 4 Go of Ram, dell driver version A01...), i obtain good results but something bother me :
With hwinfo32 in the back (as you can see on the pics attached), after playing crysis 2 or running 3Dmark benchmark, I see that the GPU fan max speed was 30%!!! Therefore the GPU reach 85°C. However the CPU fan seems to work great.

Do you have an idea how to make the GPU fan runs at more than 30% when benchmarking or playing?

Thks!

 

I'm familiar with and used RAID 0 and RAID 1, but as far as I know RAID 5 requires same size HD?

128GB mSSD << 750GB HD

 

Thanks. Now I just have to get the BIOS "admin" password for this thing.

 

Then real time backups are out. If your SSD writes at 200mb/s and your platter drives at 100mb/s that means you are out of luck. Your buffer will accumulate 100mb/s of writes waiting to happen.

What you are now looking for is software that will back up your SSD to the other drives when the system is idle.

 

Same here mine shot upto 90c.

Called dell technical support for the issue this is what they told me, As long as the temps are not affecting the performance or forcing the system to shut down it's not an issue.

As for the GPU fan restricted to 30%, he had no clue on it whatsoever. Told me he'll get back to me latter.

Any one else got ideas to as why the GPU fan is restricted to 30% (400rpm)?