M6800 Owners' Thread

Usually I just hear of people swapping the X-bracket with the one that came on their original GPU... You can take the X-bracket off with a heat gun or hair dryer.

 

The M6 is an M5000M designed to work on x-blade servers.
I am trying to install it on my M6800.

 

Bios A21 missing from dells webwite... looking to get rid of the sceptre v2 virus warning in ubuntu. Anyone know where I can et virus version A21

 

Most likely from Dell, but (only) after it's (re)released?

 

It's missing because Intel's CPU microcode update is bugged and introduces issues. (We are experiencing this first-hand with M4800 and 7510 systems.) Wait until the update is released.

 

Your original post did not include any questions...
In any case, only you can decide what you want to purchase...

 

The M6800 has a TN panel. With 1080p, usually you get a best-in-class TN panel... But it's not an IPS panel. IPS panels are available in the Precision 7710 and up. (Also, the M6700 had an IPS panel option, not sure why it was skipped for the M6800.)
I don't see resolution listed in the specs. You should confirm with the seller. M6800 is available with 1366x768 and 1920x1080.

Earlier M6800s use LVDS and later models use eDP for the display connection. There may not be any way to know which model you have until you actually receive it, if the seller cannot tell you.

Newer GPUs no longer support LVDS, requiring eDP. With LVDS, you can upgrade to an NVIDIA Quadro M5000M or GeForce 980M at maximum on the NVIDIA side (I'm not that familiar with the AMD side but I believe they are also moving away from LVDS). It may not be possible to go higher even if you have an eDP model, we do not have any success stories for upgrades to NVIDIA Pascal GPUs on the M6800. You will need to be comfortable with installing drivers with modification to the INF file, because an unsupported GPU will have a device ID that is not listed in the official drivers INF file.

Side note, I believe an i7 CPU is required in order to use all four RAM slots (i5/dual-core can only use two).

 

Yeah honetly I think if I was you I would try to buy it bare bones without that GPU... or you get it dead cheap with that bad cpu... I have a 4940mx with mine.... please try to through a p3000m or p4000m on there and tell us how it works.... Its a great computer... but yeah there is a lot of backwash with the screen.... But I lover the computer though its great. I want to try to get a 4k ips screen to work.... well see if I can do it one day......

 

Just a quick question.Is it possible to run the m6800 without any mxm gpu only the intel gpu?
If So should I leave the gpu fan installed?
Thanks

 

Yes, if you physically remove the MXM GPU then the system will run with the Intel GPU only. You can also leave the MXM GPU installed, have graphics switching turned on in the BIOS, and disable the discrete GPU in Device Manager to run with the Intel GPU only. HDMI and DisplayPort outputs will not work, these are wired only to the discrete GPU. (VGA output will work though.)