M6600 Owners Thread

Mine is still at A07 LOL

 

Thanks a lot.We just need somebody to unlock the Bios.
It would be quite interesting.I think it is just a matter of time.

 

Hi chaps,
Really would appreciate a quick bit of advice. My shiny new M6600 is winging it's way over as we speak (excited), but noticed on the manifest that it's coming fitted with a single 2GB dimm in it.

Will a single dimm be only working in single channel mode? is that much slower? Would I be well-served in immediately ordering a a second 2gb dimm, and can I buy that from any manufacturer such as Crucial or Corsair, or does it need to be ordered just from Dell (at twice the price) ?

Also, anyone know if an SSD drive in this laptop would save much battery over a normal HDD? (If not, then I'll keep the old drive and the SSD in it at the same time).

Thanks for any tips on this!

 

Buy 16GB of RAM from Newegg - or, if you're feeling powerful (and have a quad-core i7, NOT a dual-core) then buy two and get 32GB across 4 sticks.

 

Should do, but Windows will put the HDD in a low-power state if it's not being used (i.e. no files accessed, etc).

 

Did anybody try to use XTU tool from intel to turbo all cpu cores?

 

Thanks for the comment, but the question was not about the quantity of RAM (I really don't need 16gb). However I did forget to mention my cpu, which might affect how many ram slots I have and which channel config would be best. My M6600 will have a dual core 2640 cpu.
Still need to know if there will be much speed increase having a pair of 2GB dimms rather than the single 2gb stick that it currently has...anyone have an answer on this?..

 

So you can use only 2 out of 4 RAM slots.
Only Quad Core processors can use the full amount of at least 4 RAM slots.

The speed increase of Dual Channel is not as relevant as the amount of installed memory, especially when only 2GB are installed! Depending on the particular application it is a maximum of ~4% speed increase you can get by using Dual Channel. That is not that much and mostly you will not even recognize in everyday use.

2GB RAM is way too less for that kind of notebook I would suggest a lowest minimum of 4GB. The more the better.

 

I'm going to echo robotti80. Don't buy such a nice machine and stick only 2GB of RAM in it. I can easily gobble up 3.5 GB on even a pretty light workload. I'd suggest 4 GB as the minimum but RAM is so cheap and easy to install, you might as well go at least 8GB.

Even having more RAM than you need for running apps offers a performance benefit, as Windows will use leftover memory as a cache for content on the hard drive.

 

An SSD will be in a low power state much more often than a platter drive because it can finish tasks in a fraction of the time.