M6800 Owners' Thread

I haven't read about anyone using a M4000M in the M6800 yet. Heck, even your M2000M is news to me! Having said that, we have several folks that have installed the 980M card which I believe is similar to the M5000M in many ways.

For my case, I bought a HSF that is different to the standard Nvidia HSF used for the K3100M/K4100M/K5100M for the M6800 from Aliexpress. It worked for my 980M install and I'm using it now as we speak.

You just need to make sure your M2000M HSF works for the M4000M. The VRMs are the ones to be especially careful. If they don't get any cooling when stressed, they burn out and there goes your card.

No, there is no UHD IGZO screens for the M6800. We are stuck with the standard screens. Only difference is whether you have a touchscreen or not.

 

Regular-looking GeForce 1060s are starting to show up.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/322347035597

Can't wait to find out if Precision upgrade to Pascal is an option or not...

 

I guess it is a case of the power drawn by the card and if any of our existing HSFs will fit nicely.

 

Looks like one guy with an M6800 is going to try it out...

https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/265-benchmarks-the-official-thread/&page=33

 

Supposedly they only support the eDP connection, so configurations with Optimus won't work I suppose. Other than that, I hope they do work.

Though the 1060 has a slightly higher performance and a lower TDP than 980M, it's probably not worth the upgrade (from a 980M) so I'd be more curious to see if the Precision GPU cooler could handle an MXM 1070.

 

In addition to being a little bit faster than the 980M, it's a good bit cheaper as well. (Though it does only have 6GB of memory instead of 8GB.)

I think rather than "only eDP", the rule is actually "not LVDS", as NVIDIA has removed LVDS support from the newer GPUs. So if you are not using graphics switching you must have a display with eDP, but I think Optimus may be a reason to hope that you can use it on an older system with a LVDS display as the Intel GPU will be driving the output. (It's not the case that Optimus will not work at all, there are already laptops out there with 1060+Optimus.)

I've read about some other issue about some new EC signal from the BIOS being necessary in order for the card to start up. I'm not clear on what this means yet but it could spell doom for an upgrade from a non-Pascal system.

Need some brave people to actually try it

 

Hello all,

I've just picked up a M6800 from Dell Outlet (i7-4910MQ,16 GB RAM, FirePro M6100, 256 GB SSD running Windows 10 Pro) I've been trying it out for the last couple of days.

I've noticed that the fan noise and exhaust heat have been a bit high at times, so I've installed Open Hardware Monitor and let it run whist performing a few tasks. I'm quite shocked at how hot the CPU is getting at times and wanted to check if this is normal.

The cores were peaking at 90-96°C whilst exporting a batch of photos from InDesign:




I thought I'd run this past some owners before contacting Dell yet, but if anything's amiss here then I'll to get it fixed ASAP.

Thanks in advance

 

New paste job is due and you will be good to go

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/282282696099
This guy claims that it works with various older Alienware models.

 

It will be an expensive test though...