M6800 Owners' Thread

Huh because I bought the covey touch and it was LVDS on the m6700 was so much nicer to upgrade most upgrades could be done with out switching mother boards actually all of the ones I have done have been very nice dell cut so many corners with this model you bought the wrong EDP motherboard there are 2 models of them I'm kinda in the same boat

 

The m6700 had both embedded EDP and LVDS ports on them and the ability to run all upgrades

 

They even went a step further with the next gen precision embedded processors They have taken the ability of upgrading the CPU away from us as well..but these systems are faster than gen 6 anyway wonder what gen 7 is have. It checked into it this one depressed me the m6700 is just as fast if not faster

 

But if I remember you were wondering about the Pascal these won't cut it from the cards I have seen the run a power cable or fan cabling and had an unusual shape like half asus lol

 

You can blame Intel, not Dell, for the soldered mobile CPUs.

Pascal GPUs might work. I haven't seen a "standard" sized GeForce 1070 MXM cards, but the GeForce 1060 as well as all of the Pascal Quadros are available in the standard size, without an extra power connector. These cards require eDP, but they still might not work even if you have eDP, someone would have to try it and find out...

 

I got a red EDP touch...... its great..... I wish I had the rgb display I saw one oncve it was beautiful

 

I was wondering... on my new edp in linux under nvidia settings I can see its a cmn display....... not sure which brand that is........

But..... its just an edp screen under the touch digitizer......

Has anyone looked at a nice edp ips screen and tried to put that under the digitzer?


I think that might work and look better........



Yeah dell made the m6800 and m6700 too good. Destroyedt heir designed obsolescence ideals... I have 4 hard drive in mine right now, and the m4940mx...32gb... I havent touched a newer system lately but its hard to im magine it would run faster for What i use it for. Dell just wants to make cheap **** now and larger profits. sigh.
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Are you getting Current Limit Throthling on Intel XTU with defautl value from the 4940mx? I had to downclock to stop this damn throthling

 

Im using linux.... how would I know if this is happening? Everything seems smooth...... however....if this was the cast I dont want any throttling... perhaps a bios setting? I can say this runs xcooler than my 4810mq.... I mean I am at 48-49 a lot.... nice... I was at 55-56c with the 4810mq..

 

Hello all, got some questions. Been out of the notebook game for a while (since around the time the M6800 came out) so I think i am a little rusty.
Had an M6800 for a while, then it recently fell off the back of a motorcycle and despite still functioning is no longer in condition to use mobile.
Bought a replacement (refurb) but am having some issues with it.

Specs
4940mx
32gb
a18 bios
Stock VGA K4100m

First,
780m and 980m, neither one shows up in device manager (not even as basic display adapter) nor can I install drivers. I was able to install the 780m on the previous M6800 with modded inf and stock driver, no problems (980m had not yet arrived for testing), but on this computer they don't show up at all? Am I forgetting something?

Second,
4940mx is close to over heating, even after replacing thermal paste basic compute tasks pushing 100C. I have had extreme processors in the M6500 and M6700, and most recent m6800, and never encountered temperatures like this (the hottest was the 940xm but even that stayed below 90C under full load), I suspect a faulty heatsink, as the left heat exhaust never gets warm only the right side does (the side with the short heat pipe) but I will need to do more testing.