New M6500 Discussion Thread

That sucks, guess I have to order the second HDD caddy.

 

I've been looking for the HDD caddy for the M6500, but I can't seem to find it. gradx, could you please post a link to the service manual? I can't seem to find that either. Thanks.

 

The M6500 service manual isn't available so I used the M6400 service manual on the support site to figure out how to get access to the 3rd and 4th memory slots. Basically you pop off the LED cover starting from the left side. Then disconnect it and unscrew the 4 screws right above the keyboard. Then slide the keyboard up carefully and pop it out.

 

Ok. Thanks gradx.

 

I am a bit unusual request. the dell stops offer M6400?

 

RE Gradx

From

WEI Results:
Processor: 7.0
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 6.9
Gaming Graphics: 6.9
Hard Disk: 5.7

to

Processor: 7.1
Memory: 7.4
Graphics: 6.9
Gaming Graphics: 6.9
Primary Hard Disk: 7.3

Insane!

Possible reasons?

Dodgy drivers?
Really crap ram?
Broken ram?
Other suggestions?

If this is common for everyone then we need to order only 2gb RAM and get our own. Feel an arse for ordering the 8GB now.

My Envy gets 7.3 with Micron PC3-10700 RAM

 

WEI memory calculation is a bit funny.

You will not be able to get more than 5.9 in score if you have 4 gb or lower. If you want 7+ in score you need 6gb+ of memory, no matter how fast they are. So please don't be alarmed

TomCom/gradx - maybe if it's easy try taking out some of you memory to test if what I say is correct

I do how ever find it logic, that the more memory you have the higher score you have. It's the same if you have a 20gb HDD compared to a 100+gb HDD on a Win 7 install - it will be fast the higher amount. But once you reach some point there isn't a difference, I guess it's from 6+gb memory for windows 7 - dunno

 

Oh I also stumpled opun this thread:

http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/342-show-us-your-wei-16.html#post12882

It states that you need to delete a file, if you update your hardware, else your WEI wont update ...

 

I have just browsed many Windows 7 memory scores accross a myriad of forums and it seems that most people with 4GB RAM and DDR3 ram are having scores of 7+

If gradx had had 2GB of less then yeah maybe a forced 5.9 but otherwise I don't believe it.

It wouldn't make any sense at all.

Would be nice to get a memory rating from a 3rd party benchmark tool comparing the stock memory in most systems sent from Dell vs gradx's memory

If it does work out that the memory is 30% or more slower in a decent benchmark and that memory is a potential bottleneck I'll ebay the stock memory and get some better memory.

 

http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

Test it using this program .. I think this is one of the better benchmark tools ..

PCMark Vantage also have memory testing, but I think it is only in the purchased part ..

But you could try it out both of you and see what happens

I have though read several places now that under 4gb memory you tend to get low scores even though it's fast memory. But I can also see other sites have 7+ with 4gb memory .. the only way is to try and benchmark with 4gb and then later with 8gb and see if there is a difference.

EDIT: I'm sitting on a IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T60 (for now! I want M6500 ) with 2gb DDR2 memory and I get a score of 443,3 in the memorymark, just so you have sooomething to compare to