Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

Out of the models that you mentioned, I think that only the M4700 and M6700 were available with IPS displays, and the IPS display option was dropped from the M4700 pretty early on, so it will probably be hard to find one of those with IPS.

The M4600/M6600 systems are the only ones with a serious upgrade cap on the NVIDIA GPU. MX700 and MX800 can run at least up to Maxwell GPUs. (Pascal is running into trouble.)

 

Does a 9.5mm regular HDD fit in the drive slot?
I want to put one in the machine without buying a caddy to replace the optical drive.

 

Hello guys,

Do you guys think new AMD Radeon Pro WX 4150 DDR5 graphic card will work on M4600?

AMD released newer version of FirePro this year.
They're called Radeon Pro WX 4130 (2GB) and WX 4150 (4GB).
If M4600 can work fine with FirePro M4000 and M5100, maybe M4600 can work with these new cards?

https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon-Pro-WX-4150

New Precision series ships with this card and the card is MXM 3.0a.
I wonder if anyone can try this out.
This card is faster than Quadro M2000M.

 

Can be they be sourced?

Actually no they wouldnt work for our laptops iirc

 

You can order it as a part from Dell.

The card is in the same size of M5100 and AMD says it's a newer version of FirePro.
M4600 is compatible with FirePro 5950, 4000, 5100... so maybe someone can give this new card a try.
It's ranked higher than M2200 which people guess it will work on M4700, M4800.

If this Radeon Pro card works on M4600 just like M5100, then this card will save the whole M4600 i7 quad core family.
M4600 sells for $150 on Ebay now so technically it's the most affordable work station laptop.

 

I have to wonder though, is a machine as relatively old as the M4600 worth all that? The new cards wont be cheap and on top of that the work it takes to replace the cards in these machines. IIRC, the M4600 series uses the Sandy Bridge CPUs which are second gen. I guess the question is, in an older system like that would the card make enough difference to be worth it?

 

iirc they dont use the signal needed to provide anything to the screen. I cant seem to recall the specific term for the life of me though.

 

New cards typically support eDP only, and these older systems use LVDS. I'm not sure about the AMD side, but NVIDIA dropped LVDS support with Pascal.

 

So the w5170m works on the m4600? i ordered one with 1080p and the m5950,but as somebody wrote here the m5100 is ridiculously in a high price.

 

Someone said new w5170m card works on M4600... w5170m is a little bit better than M5100.
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-FirePro-W5170M-vs-AMD-FirePro-M5100-FireGL-V/m67974vsm12267

 

M4600 is really good even in today's standard. It works like a desktop for all Adobe software.
I don't think this laptop is behind any newer model out there honestly.
Also its parts are widely available for cheap replacement.
Once new FirePro card shows up on market maybe someone can try it on M4600?
These new cards are expensive but we will find on Taobao or Ebay in few years.

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4150 and 4130 are the fastest work station graphic cards for precision series I guess.

https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon-Pro-WX-4150-vs-Quadro-M2200-Mobile

 

wiuld be interesting to see it