M6800 Owners' Thread

I did, freah instal was fine with 15-17 mW.

Once Windows chugalugas updates its bad and back to 25-35mW.

No turbo, wifi on moderate, hard drives spinoff after 5 minutes, integrated on max battery. And all the usual stuff in advanced power settings.

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Well that's weird. The M6800 is up for sale again on Dell's website.

 

Just sell off the stock?

 

Hope you M6800 experts out there can help! I just purchased a 4-bay Mediasonic Probox (4 bay HDD box) which has both eSATA and USB 3.0 interface. I'd rather use the eSATA interface but only one drive shows up, which suggests that the M6800 doesn't support "port multiplier." Can anyone confirm that that is the case? Does RAID need to be enabled to facilitate eSATA port multiplier on the M6800? If so, is there any way to do that without reformatting the HDD?
Thanks!

 

M6800 does not support "port multipler" eSATA feature. You can only attach a single drive to the eSATA port.

 

Isn't USB 3 the faster connection option, compared to eSata?

 

For any owners of M6800, or in fact any Precision that you can install a GTX980M in, the following is a link to install the latest drivers.

Please follow the instructions HERE.

Download the nv_dispi.inf PEG/Dedicated for Alienware laptops. You can skip the step for flashing Prema's vBIOS if you don't intend on pushing the card beyond its standard configuration.

I have just tried it on mine and it works! Nice performance boost and finally on DX12.

 

Having an M6800 with the AMD M6100 card and are looking to upgrade it with an GTX980M card or maybe 970M to support my 1440p monitor.

So i have a K6D33 heatsink on order and are now, after reading up on it a bit here, i tiny bit confused. Is the Quadro heatsink or the Firepro one more suitable for the 980? And when looking at the pictures of it i cannot se what needs to be cut of?

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Is there anything else to look after and read up on? How is the news on 1060M? Is it worth the wait do you think? Will it even work in the M6800?

 

I've been following this a bit... I'm interested in upgrading the GPU in my M6700. There may be issues with upgrading to Pascal. Pascal no longer supports LVDS so you must have an eDP display (or maybe use Optimus all the time). There are other issues with it not booting without some "EC signal" from the BIOS (I don't really understand that yet). However, 1060 should be a bit faster than 980M and cheaper as well. It should also be possible for someone to make a 1070 card in MXM 3.0b, but haven't seen one of those yet. Too early to tell, will have to wait for cards to become possible to source and someone else to figure out the issues.

I'm waiting to see what happens on the Quadro side once Pascal mobile Quadros are released, the cards are usually pretty easy to find and more "standardized" (there are a lot more integrated or customized GeForce cards appearing in laptops now, but high-end Quadros are all straight MXM as far as I can tell)... Might be more expensive but easier to upgrade.

 

That's about what i've read as well. My feeling is that we'll have to wait quite some time for the Quadro and Firepro cards. The new M5000M for exampel, was just introduced into the Precision-line.

My current feeling is that the time for this card (M6100) is running out, and by the time a new line of MXM 3.0B cards is out the whole computer is due to be replaced. The GPU was the last upgrade i was planning to do before moving on in maybe 2 years (Hopefully to a new Precision model, can't stand the transformers-look of gaming laptops).