M6600 Owners Thread

It's certainly good but I don't think it's the best you can get. I repasted out of need (swapped cards) and my temps dropped a few degrees C. That said I wouldn't do it just for temps and I certainly wouldn't pay anyone to do it.

It should also be said that in some cases in which the paste is applied improperly resulting in abnormal temps then a repaste could make a significant difference.

If you are buying new, yes. Refurbished is another story. I paid $1050 including tax and shipping for the laptop in my sig. I got a beast of a gaming machine and a 3 year warranty to boot. Any comparable Alienware, even refurbished and with coupons, will cost hundreds more.

 

That is precisely why I didn't by a Clevo. No pun intended.

 

M8900 is still the best bang for your buck if your sole use is gaming. Make sure to install the Catalyst drivers for the best performance. It also overclocks fairly well. I run 800/1025, it will go a bit faster but this works well for me.

4000M is good once you overclock but you pay a premium for the same performance. However, if you need the professional features this is a good compromise.

5010M is very nice assuming you have the $$ to spend.

 

Very much agreed. There is no reason to repaste the video card unless you are having to change it. The risk of breaking something or applying the paste incorrectly and ending up with higher temps far outweigh any benefits.

 

I didnt see a huge difference with repasting for gpu yet, but the cpu definitely got sooo much better with repasting.

 

The temps are great anyway with factory paste. This is one of great advanteges the M6600 has. I overclocked my 4000M to be almost 2 times faster and it never gets hot more than 75-73 degrees(When stressed). However, the cpu when it runs on 3.2Ghz constantly it hits almost 80 degrees (when stressed).

 

Me too. I will be using my CPU for working on my projects (I'm not mush of a computer gamer) and the Clevo keyboards and touchbads aren't at all ideal for that kind of use.

BTW, my GPU hit 83 degrees on the 15 minute Furmark stress test. Is that a reason to worry? It eventually went back down consistently to the 79-80 degree range, but that still seems kind of high compared to what others are seeing.

What program do you guys use to stress test your processor?

 

OK I have done it at last. 128GB msata SSD installed. I had to clove the 512 to 128 in the end using Acronis 2012. I have a problem though Dell has a 13GB recovery partition on it. Can I remove it?
Using Easeus I pressume I create a logical partition then format it, then remove logical and merge it C: or have I got it all wrong?
I have read that it is not wise to delete it but I have created 3 Recovery Disks plus we have the reinstallation DVD so I cannot see why I need to lose 13GB of preciuos space on my SSD. One forum I looked in said there is some boot information on the recovery partition the directories are as follows.
Boot........approx 1mb
bootwiz.....asrm.bin....54mb
DELL.......Image (factory,wim) 7.35 gb
recovery......system32 and windowsre
System Volume Information.....tracking log 20kb
I think just to be on the safe side I will remove the big 7.35 image and leave the partition and just resize it to reclaim 10gb.
What do you folks reckon?

 

Oh well I took the cowards (some may say sensible) way out. I left the recovery image on there as I couldn't see a way of deleting the image anyway on the hidden partition. I figured that I couldn't reinstall my OS with the Dell reinstallation disk without reinstalling the partition so it was pointless removing it. I used Easeus to reduce the size to 9GB thus reclaiming another 4GB. This gives me a total of 110 on a 128GB ssd. My existing C: 512 HDD with OS reduced to 41GB thus leaving me 69GB free. I can live with this.
I turned on TRIM setting disabledeletenotify=0
Disables pagefile and moved it to the 512HDD and put back my 8GB 95M/Bs SD card for the readyboost.
I will now compare my benchmarks.

 

What clocks are your running your 4000M? core and mem clock please.
Do you also experience throttling due to power when running furmark with AA at max? This seems to be the issue with all three of my precisions with 60% OC.

83 is not particularly low, but that is just about the highest it will get. 15 mins is a long enough time and furmark stresses like no other programs. Did you ever see its clocks throttle? what gpu you have?