New M6500 Discussion Thread

I have the samsung 256 SSD that came with the machine and my score is 5.9 on the HD.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 920 @ 2.00GHz - - Score is 7.2
Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB - - Score is 7.6
Graphics NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M - - Score is 6.9
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory - - Score is 6.9
Primary hard disk 114GB Free (238GB Total) - - Score is 5.9.

Also put my second SSD (same samsung) in a M4300 with a new install and I get 7.1 on that machine.

Anyone use this:

http://members.westnet.com.au/tarcoola.computers/elpamsoft/SSDTweaker.zip

Discussed here:

Guide SSD Tweak Utility

Also read not to use a defrag on SSD as well as you should and just consolidate free space. Any thoughts?

 

Along with my last post, I read with the SSD drive, you should disable Drive indexing by right clicking the drive in windows explorer, click properties, and then unchecking "allow files on this drive to have the contents indexed...." This should not affect windows search if windows search is used.

Any thoughts on this?

 

A little help here please:
I know the Intel 5300 card is for WiFi. Is the Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth 2.1 a bluetooth card or bluetooth software? What is the Dell Wireless 420 UWB 1/2 Minicard for?
Thanks

 

Very odd. I haven't done anything special with my drives: All the drives in all of my M6500's as of now are (as thrown up by SIW) Samsung PB22-JS3 FDE's, if that means anything to you. None are in RAID. Wrong disk mode in BIOS? Not sure what else to suggest - I wouldn't imagine there's a whole bunch of stuff that can be tweaked if things haven't been messed around too much.

 

As mentioned before by someone else, any Wacom tablet should work fine with any recent distro.

Any distro with kernel 2.6.31 or later should work fine. So Slackware shouldn't have any problems. Strangely Dell advertises the M6500 to be compatible with RHEL 5.3, which is not fully true, because kernel 2.6.18 is not able to output sound through the notebook speakers when an Ibex Peak chipset is used.
You'll need the proprietary NVIDIA driver >= 193.42 for 3D graphics. Earlier ones don't support the [x]800XM (according to the changelog) and nouveau isn't ready yet. 193.53 works fine for me in Debian.


Concerning the "throttling" issue:
Not sure if I understand all the small details that are going on in this discussion (I'm not a native speaker), but I guess there are three things being messed up here: "speed stepping", "Turbo Boost" and temperature/power management. They are all connected to the CPU, but these are three different topics. Some might want to refresh their knowledge to prevent confusion.

 

I turned off the disk indexing (not windows search) and my drive score is now 6.9.

 

are you in AHCI mode so you can utilize the trim thingy?

 

yes. in AHCI.

 

Can anyone help me please. Am in the Uk and the WWAN card is not an option for UK customers!
I understand the Gobi 5600 WWAN card is suitable for my M6500. Has anyone any experience of using this card in the UK?
I have also noted the availability of a Gobi2 5620 WWAN card. What is the difference compared to the Gobi 5600 WWAN?
I currently use Vodafone as my mobile broadband provider, will my sim be compatible with this?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks Ricksto

 

Is anyone using 8GB of Kingston DDR3 1600 ram (2GBx2)(KHX1600C7S3K2/4GX) with 7-7-7-20 timing settings? If so are you having any problems with the memory at these timing settings? All the other DDR3 1600 memory I have seen is speced to run at slower timing settings than this Kingston memory.

My M6500 is due to arrive tomorrow with 4 1GB DDR3 1066 modules and I need to upgrade the ram.