M6600 Owners Thread

Thank you cixedlsyd and dvanburen, exactly the kind of personal experience and factual information i was looking after, looks like a refurb M6600 will be mine soon (rather than a new XPS 17)

 

You won't be disappointed. Don't forget you also get the included 3 year warranty with better tech support.

 

Hi,

My M6600 arrived yesterday with the Blu-Ray Writer.
The Windows properties for the drive shows it as Mata UJ242.

I found this link selling it online. Dell charges twice the price.

Matshita UJ242/UJ242A/UJ-242 4x BD-RE Blu-Ray Burner 9.5mm Ultrathin SATA DVD Drive - Free Shipping - DealExtreme

P.S. I am not liable for any issues with vendors you may wish to buy parts from.

thanks.

 

2 Notes:

1. They go for much less on ebay.
2. The pictures do not show a bezel. If you own a slot loader you will need a bezel.

 

As stated above, the 2x BD burner drives are not expensive these days (i.e. - under $150).

Ref: Dell UJ242 BluRay CD / DVD Burner Writer New With Faceplate and Latch DPN 0N3JCW | eBay

Scott-

 

HERE WE GO AGAIN
I have added another 8GB of Corsair ram now eveything is the same and I have 4*4GB. I ran the passmark and got overall 1450ish. 300 less than 8GB. the large ram write doubled. But the trade off is that the HDD read/write has dropped considerably. I figure I can offset this by introducing an SSD.
As would prefer a minimum HDD of 512 (primary HDD) I have a 1 TB in the secondary as my backup drive, could I introduce a 120GB msata ssd to boot from and hold my OS and programs? Also is there any management software that would continue writing to the c:drive rather than report drive full error if I exceeded the memory on the msata ssd? Or is there anything that would increase the r/w performenace of the HDD?

 

Can the SW that utilizes lots of storage just be installed on the secondary drive? That's what I do, but it isn't always possible. An alternative would be to use a junction if the data resides within a specific directory.

 

For those still on the fence about getting this great workstation for gaming, see if you can snipe a quadro 4000 from the outlet. The sucker can over clock a lot, up to 40%. there's another thread regarding this subject but that's my recommendation. The 8900 would be a great second choice. At least personally.

 

Highly recommend 4000M I created that oc thread. the core overclocked 60% and had total of 53% for 3dmark11

 

Could you remind us the link to the thread in question?