M6800 Owners' Thread

M5000M was available from the end of September last year, so nearly a year ago now. Pascal-based Quadros will be available when Dell, HP, and Lenovo introduce Kaby Lake-based workstations (the three of them always refresh around the same time). First quarter next year is my guess.

 

anyone testing new pascal gpu on m6800? (1060, 1070, 1080)

 

I don't think anyone has yet, but from what I've read in the Clevo section the 1070 and 1080 are not standard MXM 3b anymore and their tdp is probably too high for the m6800 anyway.

The best way to go would probably be to wait for Dell to release 17" precisions with mobile pascal quadros, and upgrade to one of those gpu's once they become available on eBay or wherever.

 

1080 will never work (requires too much power and it needs a separate power connector). 1070 might be possible, it uses the same amount of power as the 980M/M5000M, but no one has spotted a standard MXM 1070 card yet. 1060 could fit but there are issues getting the card to boot without a special "EC signal" from the BIOS (I don't fully understand this yet). In any case, finding a card by itself is not easy yet. Still gotta wait.

 

well, probably I'll try 980m, from what I've read is kind of "plugnplay", it'll need just some driver fix

thanks for the info guys.

 

See this post if you have not found it yet.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...0-owners-thread.682401/page-306#post-10165268

 

I havent, thx.

but.. is M6700 fully equal M6800? Sorry for stupid question

 

They are not the same but similar enough... You'll have to do some of the same things, like move the X-bracket from your old card (can be a pain), and tweak the driver INF file.

 

You will have to mod your existing Nvidia heatsink in order for it to fit the 980m or get the alternative heatsink from the link I posted earlier in the thread.

Same goes for the driver, I have a posted a link with a way to get the latest drivers to work on the M6800 with a 980M.

 

Hello, hope someone can provide some guidance or their experience...

I just purchased an M6800 via Dell Outlet. It's got Windows 10 Pro on it. According to this website:

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/downgrade-rights/

OEM Windows 10 Pro can be downgraded to Windows 7 Pro by simply installing Windows 7 onto the computer. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd rather not purchase a copy of Windows 7 Pro if I can just go ahead and downgrade by installing Windows 7 via the Dell installation DVD (which I have from other Precision computers). I'd do this anyway, as I'd rather have a "clean install" on my own mSATA drive.