M6600 Owners Thread

How can I overclock my 2920XM even though its locked?
What do I need to change in Throttlestop? and what value to put there ?
Thanks.

 

To OP, Anandtech has some great articles on SSDs.

Here's my opinion on the matter, for the best mix of performance, reliability, and support...

I recommend Intel 1st and Samsung/Crucial second if you want to save some coin. Stay away from OCZ and the other bit players in the market, it's not worth the risk.

I can tell you I still heavily use (~8-12h/day) an original model, Intel 160GB (sans TRIM) I got a couple years back (for a paltry $600 at the time). It's flawless and fast; never an error or hiccup despite every day, intensive use.

You can't beat Intel for reliability or support in my experience. FYI, I don't work for them, own stock, or any of that other nonsense.

 

Hey all, I'd just like to know how I can force my M6600 to use a standard 'high performance' power mode while on the 130w adapter. As soon as I get the windows message "the wattage for your notebook power adapter does not meet the minimum..." all my performance goes to crap. It shouldn't though, because if the battery is fully charged or completely removed, 130w is more than enough to run in performance mode.

So, yeah.. how can I force the laptop to run in normal performance mode?

 

I remember reading in Bokeh's review that the M6600 can pull up to 190 watts under heavy load. In any case, you need a 210W or 240W power adapter to make it happy to run fast.

 

Have you looked on completely white screen (using for example full screen mode in MS Paint)?

Wallpaper in preinstalled Windows on Dell is Blue (AFAIR), so one cannot see any tint. I think I spotted it pretty early though - when I was checking if there are any dead pixels (through full screen white/black/red/green/blue).

 

hmm.. but with the power adapter AND the battery fully charged and plugged in, you can pull from both the battery AND the wall.. so you should at least be able to run in the same mode as with just the battery.. and what happens when I'm playing games is that it's much faster if I just play with the battery in and fully charged than if I plug in the 130w adapter.

This is sounding more confusing than it really is:

Just battery - games run fine <== expected
Just 130w adapter - games run like crap <== expected
130w adapter AND fully-charged battery - games still run like crap <== NOT expected.. just maybe a slight drain on the battery..

 

unfortunately, you cannot oc i7 xm. bios locked, unlike the alienwares so far. The reason is because they want us to have stability over performance.

We will see what happens so far, but either way your gpu will be bottleneck for what you do.

others: of course we need 130w+ psu! 130 is just not enough at all. 240w is much more than what we need, but instead of making a 200w one which will cost more for dell, dell decided to ship out the 240w already made for the AWs and other precisions models from before.

 

New precision now ETA on Monday.. *Sigh... two hrs now to spend on reinstalling OS and programs..

 

Why not clone the one you have? Even with the sid being identical it should work fine. I typically make an image once I have mine how I like it, then I can easily restore to a known good state without futzing with drivers too much other than to update the video drivers.

 

well the problem is that i have raid 0 setup. So I am not sure how i can clone both hdds to other two hdds.