M6800 Owners' Thread

Sounds like it could be a minor programming problem in the fans and heat causing throttling. This certainly isn't the first time this has happened in Dell's history, and fan control is a pretty common problem in general. Generally a bios upgrade fixes the issue down the line. Whether that has happened yet I don't know, you would have to check the revision updates for each bios.

I do know that not all the M6800's seem to have the throttling issue. There have been reports from other owners in threads that I have read where they have mentioned throttling not being an issue.

With that I wonder if it could simply have been a defect in that particular model with poor thermal paste application or something similar, which they seem to indicate could be a possibility.

The m6100 seems to be around the K4100m in terms of performance, but I have not looked at any non-gaming benchmarks or numbers. AMD definitely seemed to step up with this one in terms of performance, but that is numbers based and not hands-on.

No clue on the ordering, too expensive

 

Just got dell tracking code for my M6800 - Will be delivered "on or before the 11th of feb"!!!!

Can't wait!!

 

Also - Can I put a small SSD in the WWAN mSATA slot? I read that only a 3G card will work in there?

And how many ram slots are there? 2 under the keyboard and 2 with easy access? mine comes with 2x 4gb sticks, will they be under the keyboard? Or in the easy access area?

Thanks
Rob

 

Oh, I see there is an mSATA and a WWAN port!! awesome!

 

ok 4th post in a row - Is there a good video review anywhere? I can't find one and this baby has been out for a couple months now?

 

The memory should be under the keyboard.

You need 1.35v memory.

 

Not a lot of reviews out there. No real video reviews that I know of. I think a lot of that is due to the fact that the M6800 departed from the "Consumer Customizable" model to a cookie cutter model. Not many people are willing to spend money on a brand new machine where they can't get higher end specs direct from the company, but only through a business deal.
That and the specs of the M6800 are not that improved from the now less expensive M6700.

But in any case, I am not sure what you are coming from in terms of computers. But I don't think you will be disappointed in the M6800. The Precision Mobile line is clean, simple, and functional without weighing a ton, and with good battery life.

 

2013-10-23 SvenC reports SpecViewPerf11 (CAD) and LuxMark2.0 (OpenCL rendering).
[SpecViewPerf11 uses traces from before its June 2010 release, so these scores do not reflect current versions of CAD apps.
SpecViewPerf12 was released in December 2013.]

2013-10-23 3DMark lists a 3DMark 11 result page with AMD driver version 13.152.1.0 on MSWindows8.1, but no author.
[maybe SvenC?]

2013-11-07 EricC67 ran CompuBench (OpenCL).

2013-11-15 SvenC ran Cinebench 10 OpenGL (result on battery is surpassed by result on 240w power adapter)

(Neither of the forum posts recorded their driver version number. Scores may be different depending on the GPU driver.)

Thank you, benchmark score contributors SvenC and EricC67!

 

Being available for order and being "out" are two different things.

The M6800 is now fully customizable. I'm not sure how long this had been true. I just noticed it last night.

 

My M6800 just arrived!! I wasn't expecting it until monday at least

Setting it up now, although it has win7 pro installed, not win 8 like it says it should... Should I leave 7 on it? I think i will, there isnt any real performance advantage with 8 is there? except for no aero?