Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

Just remeber to buy proper m5100 with numbers 5FXT3 and with red PCB. You will avoid trouble with bios flashing on GPU. I wrote on this topic on 214 page post about problems with overheating. I recommend you the same thing. Good Luck!

 

Thanks. Yes, there are red one, blue, green ones. I see that red PCB unit is for M4600.

 

Well, its the only one known to work.

Considering how old the laptop is Im fairly happy with it. It has gotten me through University and works well with my USB 3.0 powered monitor from HP.

Im thinking about hollowing out the battery casing to include more HDD's, probably get some external 2.5 HDD's as well and tape it to the back of the monitor.

Also the laptop seems to only support a max of 1600Mhz RAM so I wouldnt bother with anything higher for this platform. 1600 Mhz and tight timings should be goal if your wanting to push that element of the laptop.

The W1570m works in this laptop, pretty much the same as the m5100 but I think has an extra step involved for full functionality

 

Yes,

1600Mhz is max for 16GB ram setup.

If you want 32GB RAM on M4600 or M6600, you need
PC3-10660 CL9 1333MHz RAM cards.
It looks like Geil is the only company which manufactures that kind of laptop RAM cards.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/8GB-GeIL-DD...863677?hash=item4d5608427d:g:heYAAOSwgZ1XtNEB

 

That's simply not true: My M4600 is equipped with 4 x 8GB Crucial DDR3-1600 DIMMs (CT102464BF160B.C16) running with 1600MHz CL11 like determined by SPD with absolutely no issues

And I only bought these simple DIMMs because they were the cheapest on Amazon 1.5 years ago for roundabout 30 € each.

 

What... I read about that CL9 requirement on Dell's manual.
I already bought that obscure Geil RAM cards... I think it was waste of money then.
Crucial is of course, way better than Geil.

So you can get four 8GB 1600 crucial cards on M4600 unlike what it's manual says. Its manual suggest if you want 32GB, you should get four same CL9 1333Mhz cards.

 

I can only tell which configuration my M4600 is running with. And the manuals as well as all documents provided by Dell for workstation class computers are exceptional good but of course they are only updated for the time the specific units are sold by them.

 

The M4600 manual says that 32GB is only supported at 1333 MHz, that is only because those were the fastest 8GB modules you could get at the time when the manual was written. Once 1600 MHz modules became available... Well, turns out that they work fine.

 

This.

 

Yeah, that's true.. too bad Dell guys didn't update it.
I wasted $110 on slower Geil RAM sticks.
What a waste.

 

Hi guys, just wondering what's the max video card I can put in my m4600?, from what I understand I believe I'm already maxed out is this correct?. I have a 2000m and my screen is a IPS one I would really love a amd 5100 I'm I out of luck? I take it I would need the non IPS screen to have that option which requires a new motherboard to do that?
thanks

 

IPS max GPU is 2000m sadly

 

Thanks for your reply , that is sad indeed the IPS panel is very nice what are the non IPS screens like?
Would the m4700,m4800,m6700 and m6800 all be good upgrades options that would allow better gpu's to be used?, 1050ti laptops are well priced but still kinda $ compared to these models I really like my m4600 so staying with the precision would feel right where most people would go with a brand new slim laptop with a 1050 or 1060 I don't mind the weight and style of the precisions.
With the IPS panels inside the newer models are we able to use any gpu and is it only the m4600 and m6600 that seem to have these troubles?
thanks!