M6600 Owners Thread

Well, I repasted the wallpaper on my desktop, didn't make much difference to the temperature but it certainly looks nice.

 

I don't have Catalyst Control Center installed on this M6600. How are you supposed to adjust the screen saturation and play with the color balance, etc...? This M6600 has the FirePro M8900, on it. The drivers are installed, but I don't see the Control Center. I also do not think it has the Intel HD video integration either, as I do not see the icon in the taskbar for that. From what I can tell, I can't just download the Catalyst Control Center without having to install drivers with it as well.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

EDIT: I installed the new video drivers from the Dell website, which gave me Catalyst Control Center, but there is no saturation adjustment slider under the desktop properties, just brightness, contrast and gamma. Any ideas?

 

I have got to move my OS from an HDD to an msata and I will use Trueimage. BUT at the moment I have too many program on the HDD than I would like so I have shifted all the Data folders to another drive and would like to move some of the programs (low performance) to another drive without all the hassle of reinstalling and re-registering. Any ideas?
Maybe there is an easier solution. I am making the msata 120GB the boot OS drive. Currently I am using a 512 7200 sataHDD as the primary boot with about 130gb installed programs on it. Then I have a 1tb 5400 secondary backup drive.
A rough breakdown of my current hdd primary drive is:
Program Files 2.48 GB
Program Files(x86) 9.5GB
Users (Admin only) 30GB
Windows 22GB
Anyone know why Users is so large for just and admin is there a hidden cache file in here or something?
So I am looking at moving th Program Files(x86) to another drive or preferably lose or move the Users folder.

 

Yes - decrease the luma, and the chroma will pop up for you

 

If it were me I would just uninstall some programs and reinstall them on the other drive. Attempting to move the Program Files (x86) folder with programs already installed might cause confusion for apps that expect things to be in a certain place.

As for the Users folder, there are a lot of hidden folders in there, just turn on hidden folders in Explorer and poke around for what's using up space, or use a tool like WinDirStat. Of course, if you have stuff saved in your user "Documents", "Music", "Pictures", etc. folders, that contributes to the size of the Users folder. Maybe you can just move that stuff to another drive.

 

I am not understanding, there is no saturation slider at all. I have the ATI FirePro M8900 card, not the Nvidia one, so your control panel is probably different than mine.

 

What I mean is that the brightness slider adjusts the luma, so making it less bright will have a side effect of a relative increase in the chroma component, i.e. higher saturation. You can compensate for decreased luma either with the contrast slider, or by adjusting gamma.

 

That kind of sucks, there used to be a saturation slider. I am not understanding why it is gone with this new control panel.

So there are no other methods or programs that I can use to adjust this then? I'm basically stuck with this?

Thanks for all of your help, BTW.

 

How much are you selling the Alienware m18x ?

 

Well the msata I wanted from my usual supplier had a lead time of 2 weeks so I found a new supplier in Ireland and he guaranteed it Mon so I was having a waffle with him and he conned oops I mean talked me into buying a 128GB MyDigitalSSD 50mm Bullet Proof mSATA. Having read a few reviews and going by his sales this seemed to be the better buy. It benchmarks very slightly less than the OCZ but it has an extra 8 GB which is pretty useful. This guy mentioned that if I was going to clone the HDD to the msata be very careful as the clone drive will have "TRIM" turned off so I would have to turn it back on when the OS is on the SSD. Are there any fings that come to mind with you regarding cloning. I found the USERS problem it was several folder of stuff on the Desktop.