M6600 Owners Thread

Chaps - just been on the phone to Dell again so its time to go back to "the joy of screens" - the less popular sister works of another well known title...

As some of you regular to this thread may remember I recently took delivery of a new M6600 with a LG touchscreen panel. The problems with this panel have been fairly well covered but in a nutshell - "crazy flickering when used on low/medium brightness".

Ok so the official word at this point from Dell Technical Support is that this is "by design" and a replacement will do the same thing. Now the chap I was talking to was very nice and genuinely wanted to help me, but I got the impression he was being forced to follow the company line because anyone in their right mind would accept that a crazy flickering screen is not by design, unless it was a rubbish design - which doesn't really fly on a very expensive Precision mobile workstation does it?? He said it was the way the panel was manufactured and the flickering is caused by voltage changes, unfortunately power/voltages are outside the realm of my knowledge tbh, but also imo unimportant. The simple fact is that it flickers and is rubbish, if it was designed like that then sack the design team and the idiot who approved it. End of story

He also said there was only one version of the touchscreen panel available (part number = K57WM) and this was LG. The problem is that I am convinced I have seen people here talking about their AUO touchscreens...

Could anyone with a touch panel please check the make of your screen and also put the screen on minimum brightness to see if you also get the flicker. It is very obvious and you will know it when you see it. It is almost like the machine can't decide which level of brightness to select and jumps between +1 then -1 brightness setting fairly constatly.

I understand a couple of you (Sargent75 for one I believe?) has the AUO touchpanel and can confirm that it definitely is AUO and that the flicking does not exist on that panel?

Cheers guys, I've spent far too much £££ on this laptop to put up with the flicker. I generally work on low brightness screens as high brightness gives me headaches; so this is really important to me.

Cheers

 

wow that's great, I think it has already been done by someone with a 580m clevo (shouldnt make any difference tho) and he said the card was throttling much and not properly recognized.

Could you run the card properly ? (heat, performances etc.) as I am planning to get a m6600 to do the same mod.

It seems the 8900 heatsink is also fitting the 580m well.

Thanks for the input, hope that will go well !

edit: some benchmarks+temps will be appreciated

 

Read my extensive posts here about this issue. Dell lab in Austin had my old M6600 with flickering LG screen. LG techs determined it to be a bad resistor. So, yes, Dell knows it's a problem.

The touchscreen comes with LG and AUO panels. We currently have a AUO touchscreen.

I have never seen anyone mention a problem with flickering with any AUO panel, only the LG

 

yeah - I was trying to find them after vaguely recalling seeing them but with no search facility on this forum and checking back to P390ish I gave up.

that's fine tbh, as long as you are verifying you have an AUO panel and it doesn't flicker along with the LG has a confirmed problem - that's good enough for me. At least I didn't imagine reading about it

Hopefully a couple more people will post with verification, I believe Sargant75 has an AUO touchscreen as well.

thanks pal

 

just click on my user name, and a box will open with an option to find all of my posts. There is also a search tab at the top of each page.

 

Hello everyone - I'm a first time poster, long time reader.

I want to post here hoping maybe to get some feedback.
Link changed to NBR/Dell M6600 reimaging threads' new home.

 

That was me with a GT485 last year and it was not stable in all uses. The bottom line is if the BIOS does not recognize the card, the investment will not live up to its full potential - even if third party software sees/reports the correct device ID. I would be interested in seeing what his system device manager shows for the video card in addition to some benchmarks as well.

Scott

 

yes it run perfectly fine ! in windows 8 with modded 301.10 driver (desktop gtx680)
At first the only 2 game give me problem is Battlefield 3 and Skyrim
But when I disabled Optimus in bios, it run so well on par stock clock with my 6970m (m8900) OC to 810 in both Battlefield3 and skyrim.

Sry i can't give u screenshot right now but i'm tracking the temp with throttlestop all the time and It's not bad, max load is 65*C run through 3 mission on MW3 then switch to Battlefield3 for 15min then .. Skyrim and masseffect3 for a few mins !
actually it's a lot better than when i put in my m17x R3 ! which throttle like crazy when i try to play crysis2

I'm sure one thing the M6600 heatsink/fan design is better than m17xR3
the CPU is not OverClockable so sharing the vent/fan with the GPU is totally genius
> GPU now had 2 FAN and 3 pipes heatsink !


@moogleassassin : I traded it with a quadro3000m and some accessories from my friend with his m18x (USB to SATA cable wire, my unuse Wifi card, .. etc)
This guy even had a m6600 with ATI HD 6990m, after the mod he sold it.
lolz it's work just like the real firepro but much stronger with 1120 shaders.

 

Thank Scott- for the input.

You actually need to disable Optimus to run the games that's something a bit annoying for me. Did you just have to disable the drivers check to install the Forceware 301.10 ? No more funny things to do ?

Also, I wouldn't run my 580M @ stock in this barebone so if you could later on do some benches of the beast with some o/c, it would be greatly appreciated

 

I currently have two m6600, both with the touch panel & AUO display. Neither flicker at any brightness level..