Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge *Part 2*

*NM, I just found AfhStingray's M4600 Owner's thread!

(+Thx baniels)
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Have any of you heard about the Precision M4600? searches here on NBR and on Tom's turn up zilch!

I haven't cracked it open yet, but it seems like a beast of a machine (Core i7-2620M, 15.6" 1920x1080 fHD and switchable Intel/Nvidia Quadro 1000M w/2GB GDDR3).

Was this just released? Are they no longer mfr'g the M4400? Maybe I'll start an owner's thread.. Or maybe I'll sell it, I think its even more than I need right now.

 

Here is the M4600 owners thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...ion/581542-precision-m4600-owners-lounge.html

 

I have an M4400 for personal use and have not had the slow, constant mouse movement problem. I have an M6400 at work though, and do experience it sometimes when jumping between the touchstick and touchpad. I've found doing a few circular motions with the touchstick helps free it up. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the keyboard, or if something might gum up the touchstick. I'm not sure how bad yours is, but mine doesn't happen enough or last long enough to really bother me.

 

Recently I bought a D5540 3G W-CDMA WWAN card. M4400 can detect it just fine, but the latest driver won't install due to authenthic issue. In the meantime, the same card and driver work okay on Latitude E6500. Does anyone know work around so I can use D5540? Thanks

 

Hi guys

I'm a happy user of my M4400 for 3 years now and i'm starting some serious upgrade/improve here.

1) I overclocked the quadro fx 1700m from 625 (gpu)/800(memory)/1250(shader) to 735/1010/1505
GPU temp stay below 85°c, so it's ok for me.
I was a little bit septic with the real effect of this overclocking, but it really rocks. I can play Starcraft2 comfortably now.

2)i will change the hard drive
it will runs a SSD Crucial M4 128go, my "old" 7200rpm hdd is going to fit inside a E-modular bay caddy instead of the DVD/R reader.

3) I'm also looking to overclock the core 2 duo T9400... but after hours of googling i can't find a clue, except than Setfsb can't do nothing for me.
i'm not really enthusiastic with pin modding...

Any ideas here?

So i'm also googling about CPU upgrade.
do you know which Intel CPU with socket P and Intel PM45 chipset will works in my beloved M4400?

May be you don't have straight answers, but any leads will be much appreciated here!

thanks a lot


p.s
Sorry for my poor english, it's not my native language.

 

What did you use for your overclocking of your GPU?

In regards to your CPU, my system has a QX9300, so I imagine it will be compatible with yours. Quad core extreme, which is the highest cpu upgrade you'll be able to achieve.

Michael

 

Hi

hmm the QX9300 have 45w TDP, i guess it to much for my stock cooling system... one cpu with 35w TDP (T9400 stock value) will be may be better i guess.
Starting from here only the T9900 could be ok.
Any ideas?

Concerning the gpu overclocking, i use nvidia driver 186.21 (8.15.11.8621), nvidia system tools 6.05, and nvidia performance 6.05

that's all.

 

New Bios is out A27:

Systems: Dell Precision M4400 Series Version: A27 Build Date: 12/07/2011 NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M Video BIOS version 62.94.8F.00.01 Fixes/Enhancements ------------------ 1. Update Peryn CPU Micro code. 2. Update IntelR TXT BIOS AC Module 3. Added support for Signed Firmware Updates. The BIOS release has been validated on the following operating systems: 1. Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 2. Microsoft Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3 3. Microsoft Windows 7

Infos from Dell.com

 

This new bios seems to have made my m4400 less stable. It *never* crashed before I upgraded to it (I was using the A25 bios). I'm pretty confident that the bios is the only thing I have changed, and now I get freezes occasionally. System just hangs, then black screen. Hard disk light flickers very slowly. Back to A25 for me, anyone else had any troubles? A25 is still on the dell site, as are several others, which is nice.

I noticed a user up in the thread still had A15 listed in their sig, any reasons for this?

 

Went back to A25 and it's still crashing