M6800 Owners' Thread

You'll likely just need to plan to use the smaller charger. It WILL throttle while plugged in, so maybe plan to work unplugged and then charge while its shutdown (and you're napping or eating).


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Thanks guys, much appreciated.

What blows my mind, is, just plugging the 240W brick into the plane, even without the laptop connected, always overloads the plane's outlet. With no ultimate load on the circuit, other than the little blue LED. All I can think of is instantaneous inrush current overloading the circuit protection...

Sham Shui Po*, here I come!

Erik

* The neighborhood in Hong Kong where most wholesale and high volume retail computer/computer parts sales occurs.

 

Hi Guys,
I've just got a new m6800 i7-4940MX with the touch screen.
Running win10 64bit.

Do you know a way of calibrating the screen colour as it is very dull and has a greeny tint. I use a separate Samsung display for most of my work (3D visualising and product renderings).
But I wanted to get the laptop display to at least show correct colours.

Is there a colour profile or some software like the old Premier Colour (m6600) to use?

thanks
Will

 

I decided to open up my m6800 today because I was curious about the video connector.

Look what I found (attached File_000.jpeg)
The video connector is eDP 40 pins! I thought it was 30. Does this mean it would be possible to use the eDP to LVDS interposer (Part # 75v7g) to use some of the nicer 17.3" LVDS screens out there? Like the 10 bit one the m6600 had?

Also, I'm really admiring the workstation build quality of this machine. I work on low-end business HP's every day and there's a huge difference in quality between those and this one.

 

Just switched over from Clevo to Precision.

I had one 4940MX in the Clevo, vs 4910 in the Dell. The CPU heatsink is shared between extreme and non extreme versions of the M6800? Or different part #


Oh, and there are some questions regarding higher speed sticks, everything passes with 2133MHz HyperX (2*8GB tho`)

 

I have used the Dell 130w on the road when on my dell m4800 and it will throttle at I believe 800mhz per core. I just use throttlestop and set the multiplier to 20+ and it runs fine. Hooked up to a kill a watt it doesn't even exceed 100w

 

Remember to check with CPU-Z to make sure your rams are not stuck at 1600MHz...

The fastest ram speed is 1866MHz.

 

Nothing stuck. BIOS/HW info reports 2133. Same as Intel XTU

 

Another thing discovered today.

The HP ZR2740W monitor is not recognized at all by the Precision. Tried two units over DisplayPort cable.

My Clevo can detect them fine.

Tried over HDMI on another monitor, no output.

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Under Windows 7 I can get HDMI output but no DisplayPort.

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Spent almost one hour over the phone with the support team. Seems I will be expecting a service engineer tomorrow.

 

Interesting... IIRC it might change once you fill up all the four slots. What's the Kingston part number and model?