M6600 Owners Thread

[DrCheap]

Can someone tell me what the following should cost I can't get Dell's website to cooperate


M6600 Mobile Workstation
Windows® 7 Professional
i7-2760QM
16.0GB, DDR3-1600MHz SDRAM, 4 DIMMS
Backlit Keyboard
FirePro® M8900
Primary Storage 128GB Solid State Minicard Drive
17.3" UltraSharp™ FHD(1920x1080) PremierColor
Bluetooth Module
210W/240W switchable Slim 3P A/C Adapter
8X DVD+/-RW, Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300
Microsoft® Office Professional 2010 with Adobe Acrobat X Standard
dual 750GB in RAID 1
9-cell Battery
4 Year ProSupport with 4 Year NBD Onsite,4 Year CompleteCare
E-Port Plus, Port Replicator
Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop Keyboard/Mouse
Mobile Edge Premium Briefcase Laptop Carrying Case
2 x Dell UltraSharp™ U2410 24in Wide Monitor
Dell AX510 SoundBar

If you are price-biting, I suggest buying the cheapest m6600 with 2760qm, 8900m, and your preferred monitor, then buying the ram, ssd, mouse, monitor, and hds from third party vendors and installing them yourself. The Dell prices on those upgrades are unreasonable, imo. The ram alone is a ridiculous price and the Dell conifgurator won't let me put two 750 gb hds into an m6600.

From outlet if you can accept the regular 1920x1080 monitor (non-IPS), such a system can be found, in the 1100-1200 range pretty frequently with 3yr NDB. With IPS a bit harder to find and more expensive, but still pretty cheap.

Otherwise, as closely specc'd as Dell would let me (the hd a little diff and soundbar not included), they want about $5,350...

[DrCheap]

DrCheap

One of my M6600 did 880/1150 I played games 850/1140 max temp was 83C

Those are great numbers. I may have to play around but if I fry one of these my is on the line for it.

We did get the cooling worked out today on the troubled one -- it turns out both the cooling and keyboard issues were related. Someone had installed two layers of thermal pads (double thickness) on the gpu heatsink, which caused everything to be pushed up and out of whack as well as screwing up the cooling on the gpu. Tech replaced the mobo, cpu, gpu, and keyboard just in case any of it had been damaged, fixed the heatsinks, even benched it all before he left. Golden. 76*c. under 100% load for 10 minutes.

[tommyxv]

I have the Intel 6300 wireless card, AMD FirePro 8900, IPS display and NETGEAR PTV2000-100NAS Push2TV HD-TV Adapter.

It keeps telling me I need to switch to the Intel HD graphic card as the FirePro is not supported. Can I with the IPS display, I do not see the option in the BIOS?

[Aaron44126]

I have the Intel 6300 wireless card, AMD FirePro 8900, IPS display and NETGEAR PTV2000-100NAS Push2TV HD-TV Adapter.

It keeps telling me I need to switch to the Intel HD graphic card as the FirePro is not supported. Can I with the IPS display, I do not see the option in the BIOS?

The IPS display *and* the AMD Firepro prevent you from using the Intel GPU. With the M6600, it's only available on systems with NVIDIA GPUs and no IPS display.

[ray4jc]

If you are price-biting, I suggest buying the cheapest m6600 with 2760qm, 8900m, and your preferred monitor, then buying the ram, ssd, mouse, monitor, and hds from third party vendors and installing them yourself. The Dell prices on those upgrades are unreasonable, imo. The ram alone is a ridiculous price and the Dell conifgurator won't let me put two 750 gb hds into an m6600.

From outlet if you can accept the regular 1920x1080 monitor (non-IPS), such a system can be found, in the 1100-1200 range pretty frequently with 3yr NDB. With IPS a bit harder to find and more expensive, but still pretty cheap.

Otherwise, as closely specc'd as Dell would let me (the hd a little diff and soundbar not included), they want about $5,350...

thank you i just need a price to put in a package i'm working on for management about future workstations

[tommyxv]

The IPS display *and* the AMD Firepro prevent you from using the Intel GPU. With the M6600, it's only available on systems with NVIDIA GPUs and no IPS display.

That's what i was afraid of. The IPS screen great so I will just deal with it. Thx for confirming it.

[ijozic]

The IPS display *and* the AMD Firepro prevent you from using the Intel GPU. With the M6600, it's only available on systems with NVIDIA GPUs and no IPS display.

This came out weird, IMHO. By following the same logic, from the 2nd sentence you can extrapolate that "the IPS display *and* the Nvidia Quadro prevent you from using the Intel GPU" and from those statements you can figure out the common problem - the IPS display (and not the Nvidia and AMD GPUs, though you're right that the Dell never implemented the AMD graphics switching technology).

Actually, it is the limitation of the Intel HD 3000 GPU that prevents anybody from using it with the IPS display since it doesn't provide the 10-bit color output which the high end IPS displays require. Unfortunately, the trend seems to continue with the HD 4000 on the Ivy Bridge so we'll have to choose between the IPS and the battery life on the supposedly upcoming M6700. Personally, I really need the battery life sometimes, so I'd appreciate the option of a higher-end TN screen (e.g. like the RGB LED on my current M6400) instead of this panel lottery on the M6600 (e.g. Chi Mei and the average LG vs the decent AUO screen, IIRC).

[badgerballs]

Eeeeek Help! I have just had my M6600 motherboard replaced by Dell Agent and I have noticed that the power socket is flopping around. I am sure my previous one was rock solid. You some confirm it should be solid please, or are the new ones loose. I have experienced the same problem with my clients machines such as Vostros etc at it usually means the socket has broken off the motherboard.

[moogleassassin]

I've had two M6600 (both built in 2012) and the power socket on both has been a little loose. Not hanging off or anything but with the cable plugged in you can move the part with the blue light on it about 3-4mm. I was worried about the first one until I got the second and it was identical.

hope that eases the mind.

Cheers

[Bokeh]

The IPS display *and* the AMD Firepro prevent you from using the Intel GPU. With the M6600, it's only available on systems with NVIDIA GPUs and no IPS display.

This is no longer correct. When the M6600 first came out, you had to get the Nvidia card. Now you CAN order one with the AMD gpu.