M6800 Owners' Thread

I'm using these without issue
Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model BLS8G3N169ES4

 

Thank you for the information! So it may be that 1600MHz works but 1866MHz doesn't. Was that on a M6800?

 

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A couple of questions to those of you who understand the workings of memory modules better than me:

If there are multiple MHz versions of the more or less same memory module, are there usually some fundamental structural differences between them, or is it more a matter of some just having better quality so that they are able to run at higher clock speeds (or can be overclocked higher)? I have understood that at least some CPU cores with different clock ratings are just basically picked from the same production line based on at which speed they happen to work reliably?

Secondly, is it so that for a machine like M6800 which doesn't provide any BIOS options for memory settings it just gets the supported clock and timings information from the memory module itself, and tries to use the maximum available (that it supports), so in my case it tries to run 1866MHz memories with that speed and if they do not work properly it won't try (and there's no way to make it try) to run them at any lower setting? If that is the case I guess I could try that theory by inserting a couple of 1600MHz memories to the other slots so that it's forced to use the maximum common speed?

I believe this conversation is a good indication that you shouldn't go for modules that are rated higher than supported as even in the best case you probably just have to pay more for them without actually getting any benefits if the laptop doesn't support them and instead there's a bigger risk that they won't work.

 

Mine shipped today and I want to thank everyone for their contribution to this thread.

A couple of questions;

1) BIOS SATA settings (I understand needs to be done on first startup before OS loading), the manual says RAID (default) but I’ve read AHCI is a better setting if no RAID (I’m not going to run RAID). Has anyone changed this?

2) MSATA, I’m a little confused on which one to purchase. Manual says SATA 2 but I’ve read SATA 3. Has anyone purchased one and would it be good as a scratch disc for Photoshop CS6?

Thanks

Mark

 

According to HWINFO I have Liteon LMT-256M6M mSATA inside and it reports the drive controller to be Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s. So based on that it seems to be SATA 3.

That's my system disc and in addition I have a couple of regular RAID discs for data. My understanding is that mSATA discs usually are not quite as fast as their regular sized SSD counterparts but whether there's a significant difference, I don't know.

 

Thank you, I'm looking at this one:

Crucial M500 240GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT240M500SSD

I'm GUESSING, eek, it will fit.

 

Just FYI, putting on a fresh win8 image and then upgrading to win 8.1, when in the dell extended battery life power plan battery bar sits between 8 to 9.5 watts Screen min brightness, light internet browsing and ms word. Not bad....

 

Only have experience with M6600 and M6700, but I assume the touchpad is still Alps and pretty awful. To make two-finger gestures usable I had to disable 1-finger scroll, lower the sensitivity slider (i.e., make it more sensitive to pressure) and tone down the TouchGuard.

Either should be fine in PS but go for SATA3 to enjoy up-to-date speed.

When there is a difference - and often there is none - it's small and unnoticeable except in 'synthetic' tests. Personally, I would not bother.

 

I have tested the Crucial CT240M500SSD3 in an M6800 and can confirm that it fits and works perfectly.

I didn't run any benchmarks, but it was fast enough for me.