M6800 Owners' Thread

Hey guys

Thanks for the input! Dell sent me ram that's compatible with the m6800 and now it boots perfectly and also I changed the boot sequence to boot up my SSD instead of my HDD.

I have another question now, after moving my hard drive from the m6700 to the m6800, there are drivers that shouldn't be there and some that should but aren't installing. Should I just use the driver CD that comes with the laptop to install them properly?

Thank you

 

If it were me I would handle the transition from the m6700 to m6800 a little differently. Some of these steps assume you still have the 6700 (those steps identified with asterix). This process would also require two additional 2.5 HDDs and also an external HDD for cloning the originals and backing up images of the original drives.

- image backups of the HDD and SSD to an external drive as a precaution.
- * confirm the image backups worked by restoring them to two other 2.5 HDDs and installing them in place of your original HDD and SSD in the 6700 and verify it worked just as the originals
- reformat the two extra 2.5 HDDs that you used in the above step. Clone the 6700 HDD and SSD to those two other 2.5 HDDs
- * confirm the cloning of the HDD and SSD worked by swapping the cloned drives into the 6700 and testing they work.
- format the original SSD used for booting.
- Reinstall the OS from scratch on the new m6800 using the newly formated SSD.
- install all of the drivers from DELLs website (the driver CD may already be out of date if updated drivers have come out).
- Reinstall all of your applciations/programs.
- Restore your data files from the cloned drives.


or something like that. It insures that you have a clean system. Otherwise, if you later have strange issues, you wouldn't really know if it is because of wacky drivers or junk that was carried over from the old system.

 

My m6800 is in italy (1 country away) and now im feeling like a little kid waiting to open xmas present

Had to share this with someone as my SO is not as thrilled by it as I am

Edit: its here, compared to my m6600 fit and finish is a step up. Like how all bits and pieces are painted black inside, like hdd caddys. Also i like how those screws that are used to secure quick release caddy can now be used to secure hdd in primary slot. They included msata screw amd all mpcie screws.

And tons of battery options in bios. Me like

EDIT:
Ok. Did some stress testing yesterday evening wow 30 man raid + recording of gameplay (h.264 fhd, via cpu, no quicksync) turbo was constant at 3.6 with some jumps to 3.7, max temp 81c. Gpu went up to 75c. I must say I'm impressed with themperatures. But fan noise was "master blaster" in machines defense it was 2 hour 100% both cpu and gpu load and it was late so everything was quiet. Dear god how wow fps depends on cpu speed. Now I had 60fps in all scenarios, where with old 2720qm that was not possible.

Also whisper quiet while surfing (10ish tabs with some of them youtube 1080p) or doing office work, loudest thing was HDD drive. So fan was either off, or quieter than HDD. Which was by no mesure loud, just can just hear it there, sitting, spinning.

Mind you: all testing was done from 22.00 to 02.00 (for those in the "wrong countries" its: 10pm - 2am)

 

No one with a M6800 with a K4100M? Oh dear...

 

Has anyone used the m6800 and the m6600/6700? I'm looking for a comparison. (Comparison that includes recent Lenovo Thinkpad W- and HP Z-Book notebooks would be nice.)

 

Im currently writing up an extensive review about m6800 with hints here and there about differences in comparison with m6600. Once its done i can post link here and you can use google translate.

Most noteworthy differences: you get Enduro with amd card now - great battery life for basic tasks. mSata is now sata3. Fit and finish is a bit better and the entire machine feels a bit more solid. Other than generational jump which brings performance m6800 in my testing has proved to bee a lot more quiet during idle and basic tasks and cooler with pretty much same amount of noise when pushed to the maximum limit.

Maximum turbo boost in m6800 during rendering is limited by tdp and not temperature and regardless of how hard you push it you will never get close to max temps same way those new "thin and light" gaming machines does. Highest temp that ti saw was around 86c during usage of short turbo boost when machine was running continous look of h264 benchmark for 2 hours, after that first minute tmeperatures were hoovering around 75c for cpu which was fluctuating between 3.1 and 3.4 ghz where hwinfo reported tdp of 47w.

I've only seen zbook 17 for 5 or so minutes, but that superb build quality and premium feel that 8770w had and i though should be industry standard for craftmanship i now fear is gone in zbook 17, internals might be the same but exterior took a step backwards.

Prior to zbooks i was first to admit that ivy and sandy elitebook lineup had better craftsmanship than precisions, but now its other way around and not because dell improved but because hp got worse.

Dont get me wrong zbooks are still a great machine with build quality equal to precisions but now its equal not better and with dells having dual fan cooling and on-site warranty included in price i just dont see why someone would get zbook 17 or 15.

 

if you can wait a couple weeks, i can pull one for you. mine's on order and they say jan 7 delivery but it shouldn't take that long.

 

Cheers mate! I await with bated breath!

 

Hello.

I would really be interested in knowing what GPU you had installed prior to this one. I ask this because if you had the AMD one I would like to know if the heat sink matched the new nVidia GPU.

Thanks.

 

My M6800 came with a K3100M. So I can't help you with your query.