M6800 Owners' Thread

Hi guys - can the M6800 - the dual core i7 +Quadro K3100M be ran with 210W charger without issue? (get a power warning at the boot that it wants 240W - have disabled it). Got a spare 210W charger that's all - might put it in the office.

I'm presuming that the Quad core is 47Wh instead of 35Wh of the dual core, and there are 2x fewer RAM slots being used. That leaves about 18W deficit potentially.

Thanks

 

Sure it can, however, it will probably run slower.

 

On previous generations, 210W could be used instead of 240W without encountering throttling. I think that it will be fine. Dual-core and K3100M give you plenty of headroom below the maximum configuration... It's hard to draw up above 200W with the maximum configuration anyway, you'd have to be using full load on the CPU and GPU *and* charging the battery and doing everything else you can think of to consume power.

I think that it will be fine with 210W unless the BIOS itself does some unnecessary throttling (like it does with PSUs below 180W).

 

Proud owner of a m6800 Covet edition from ebay its stripped of components but good for me i can put some decent stuff in it, maybe a gtx 965 and a 4800mq, super excited to finally grab a covet for not 2000 dollars.

 

Hi Chaps!

I'm about to pull a trigger on a secondhand m6800, i7-4810QM & K4100M, FHD display. My only concern is that when I look closely (~30cm) at the screen I can see very faint, hard to spot, but lots of vertical lines (almost like seeing the columns of the pixel raster), especially on grey or white background - which seems unusual to me, and haven't seen anything like this before & albeit I'm used to lower end, entry level laptops / screens.

I imagine I could live with it as is, because my eyes would get used to it after a while, but is this how these screens are? Or is there a deffect possibly in this particular one?

Thanks in advance!

 

"Screen door effect" where you can see the "lines" between the vertical or horizontal rows of pixels (or both)? Not uncommon, but its "intensity" varies depending on the screen model. You can swap out the panel if it bothers you... In most screens it should be hard to notice unless you are looking very close.