M6600 Owners Thread

Awesome info! I was about to look into a SATA3 -ESATA setup for backing up drives. I would have been getting hardware I can't use. Oh well . . .

I guess SATA2 is ok . .

 

Thanks! This helped a ton identifying which display I have. LG for me , still I think its awesome!

 

Can you run some benchmarks (3dmark06 and vantage) when you get the 5010M in, I want to see it side by side against the M8900

 

Sure, not a problem.

It might be best to put any requests at the end of my M6600 review thread. I will be adding all of the info to it.

 

Rocking! I have a i7-2920xm, with 16gb of 1600mhz ram. What ram are you running? What hd?

If you want I can mirror your benchmarks to see if we can get a honest, 1 to 1 comparison (same cpu, same laptop except for graphics).

 

Can you tell me too? My screen has dead pixels.

 

Screen replacement requests should PM Dell Mano G especially about CMI

 

The new one does not have the extreme quad core. Just a normal quad. I can swap the 2920xm from my current M6600 for testing. My guess is that even with the 27X0QM processor, the higher end video card will make more of a difference than the processor. I could be wrong, but that is the theory I am testing.

The specs in my sig are my current M6600 which is my everyday machine. The IPS/5010M machine that arrives tomorrow may not be mine for more than a month or two. When there is a need for it somewhere else, I will have to pass it on, but for now I will be working with it for my company's desktop management group. Our whole video production crew dumped Final Cut HD for Premier Pro CS5.5 when Apple decided to refocus their video production software on consumers instead of pros. The IPS M6600 that arrives tomorrow will be evaluated next to the Macbook Pros currently in use. We already know the M6600 absolutely kills the MBP in terms of speed, now we want to see what the people that take pictures and shoot video for a living think of the IPS display.

 

Great! BTW I ran these numbers a while ago , it may help you at work (M8900 vs. the fastest 17" macbook pro graphics option 6770).

280.89% faster on the Graphics Card (3dm Vantage Score)
112.49% faster on the Graphics Card (3dmark06 GPU Score)

Then the availability to run up to 32GB is pretty nice vs. the limitation on the macbook pro.

On the CPU's the new optional 2860QM is pretty healthy!! It's on par with the i7-2920xm. It's crazy how fast they are advancing technology right now!

The 5010M should do well against the M8900 so you should have something that is easily 200% faster then a macbook pro on graphics rendering.

Based on notebook checkbenchmarks the 5010M is only 37.70% faster then the M8900 in 3dmark06, in 3dmark vantage its actually SLOWER then it by 15.29%

But ofcourse gaming graphics is a horrible way to compare this stuff. Where the quadro excels is floating point operation calcs.

I always thought 3dmark was king, but when I benched a comparable setup (ATI vs. Quadro) in some CATIA tasks, the Quadro destroyed it.

 

I have a question about forward compatibility with the 6600 I have read multiple posts about compatibility of currently available components aka buy 3000m now and install 5010m later when price drops however I am interested in forward compatibility with components that have not been released yet or tested in this system namely Ivy bridge processors and a 6000m or whatever the new gpu will be I think I remember reading that the mobo can support a 4ghz processor and assuming the new gpu is mxm or the connections match then the upgrade should work right