New M6500 Discussion Thread

I will head over to the local gym right away and start beefing up my chest muscles

Seriously though, thanks very much for the reply. Knowing that it is OK in your lap is most helpful as that means I can always move a M6500 to my lap if it proves too heavy on my chest.

 

Just get a nice backpack and you are set. I love my m6500. Just need to fix the bios issue.

 

Well, that's a case of YMMV.
I had the M6500 on my lap exactly once. The weight was no problem (male, 1.75m, 70kg, well trained cyclist legs - umm... enough self-praise ), but the heat that was conducted by the docking port was very uncomfortable. I wore long jeans and only did office tasks. I don't even want to think about having it on my chest.

I think you can skip the gym. The M6500 should give you a nice six-pack within three months.

 

Now that is clever - placing a fat burner directly on the abdomen

 

Hello all !

I'm very happy with most things about my Precision M6500, but am a little sad about its temperature.
I think that it is hot, and because of that the fan runs often (not very fast but I hear it).

As I am writing, Hardware monitor tells me that the CPU temperatures range from 44 to 52 °C, and I have only been doing some internet browsing for the about 4 hours since when I woke up the pc, so I would call that idle. It is set on "normal mode" power strategy of Win 7 (in which I have set the processor cooling strategy to "passive", with max speed at 20%).

I reinstalled a fresh Win 7 soon after receiving the machine and it is possible that I don't have the best drivers for everything.

What do you think ? Is this normal and do you get the same kind of temperature ?

My config is:
Dell Precision M6500
Intel Core i7-720QM, 8 G
ATI FirePro M7740 - 1 Go GDDR5
System disk is Samsung SSD PM800 TH 64G (AHCI)
Second disk is 500 G

 

That is NORMAL and not hot....no worries mate.

 

First person to get ahold of one & try to install it in a M6500 gets a cookie.

 

Funny you mention the heat - mine auto-shut down today because of temperature, said the bootup screen. So put it on the Zalman & all is well again.

Wasn't even doing anything strenuous, just sitting on the tabletop. CPUID says min/max values are 40-78 C

 

My M6500 should arrive next week. I ordered it with a single 128GB SSD. My plan is to install a HDD for backup. Is there a cradle or caddy needed?

The only caddy I have seen is to replace the optical drive, but my initial plan is to use the second internal bay.

Thanks

 

there is a spot for you other drive as well has the hard cage to use as well there.