New M6500 Discussion Thread

Ok I have a question regarding the memory support for the M6500.

For the i7-920XM or 940XM processors, they support DDR3 rams up to 1600MHz. What I wanted to find out is, do they support 1.35V rams?

 

And it said 5800 series or 5870m in gpuz, do you know the driver version was, and thanks.

 

And also whats the best battery part number because I'm about to buy a battery after the weekend is over. Wondering which one hold the most power and I was looking at this one (Genuine Dell Precision M6400 Battery C565C 8M039 | eBay) so can anyone help with this issue now. And thanks in advance.

 

I guess it was 13.4 based on the release date.. Download AMD Catalyst Drivers 13.4 Vista 64 - Technical Details - FileHippo.com

Though I'm positive the latest one should work, too (both are links to Win7 64 versions) Mobile

Regarding the battery, there was only one capacity for M6400/M6500 series available AFAIK.

 

Well tried that one and gotten the same results, but thanks I'll just keep trying some or even mess around with the bios a little bit and yea i gotten 900/1200 @1.20v stable for all games I tried but also notice its taking more then my powersupply can put out. So thanks for the help

 

Oh, I thought you had problems installing the drivers. Again, since M7820 is the same GPU as 5870M and I'm convinced that the Catalyst drivers are treating them exactly the same (i.e. there are no extra "optimizations" to be found). Do you have some 5870M results from some other platforms which would indicate otherwise?

 

I'm able to install the m7820 drivers but I wanted to install the 5870m drivers. Cause I still get the firepro control center instead of the regular and the the 5870m drivers will be better for games.

 

Ignore the Control Center for a while. Do you have some performance numbers for comparison which would show that the Catalyst drivers (which are gaming drivers, not FirePro drivers) installed on M7820 are giving weaker results than 5870M results from some similar machine?

IMHO, there's no such difference because the drivers should be treating the GPUs in the same way because they ARE the same GPUs (why would AMD allow gaming drivers on their more expensive FirePro GPU variants and then "sabotage" them?).

 

Well I got the regular catalyst control center but it still say M7820 video driver installed (device manager/GPU-Z). The regular amd catalyst center have more options then the firepro alot settings are removed from the firepro center like: msaa,proformance vs quality,AA,overclocking even though i can do that with msi afterburner and RBE. So if they do that with control centers its most likely they do that with the drivers and the 5870m drivers should take more advantage of the overclocks then the M7820 drivers. And to your question, yea they are the same hardware but different software that will operate them differently.

 

This seems to be a recurring point, so this is my last entry, really. It's not different software, it's the same gaming Catalyst drivers. When drivers are installed, they probably set up for whatever hardware options the GPU is supporting (e.g. DX version, etc.) and since the hardware is the same, there is no difference between those same drivers installed on a 5870M or M7820 (unless you can find some performance numbers which would indicate otherwise).

The only real way to prove it would be to flash your card with a 5870M BIOS and compare the results, but there's a chance that won't work (and you'd have better know how to blind flash the old BIOS back just in case). Also, not sure if AMD whitelists their cards in drivers like Nvidia for which you need modded inf files if you install a Geforce card in a Precision.