M6600 Owners Thread

This one is tempting me: NVIDIA Quadro K4000M N14E-Q3-A2 4GB GDDR5 for P170HM P150HM clevo P150EM/P170EM | eBay

Anyone tried the K4000M in the M6600? It's what need for my CUDA computing - lots of VRAM, pleanty of "cores"...

 

Can't see any reason why not, the 7970m and 680m work. The only concern i would have is whether that particular card will work in your 6600, some of upgrademonkey video card specifically state that they can't work in an Alienware such as this
AMD Radeon HD 7970M 2GB FOR CLEVO,P150EM P170EM P370EM upgrademonkey in stock | eBay

 

Yep, working great here.

 

I would be very interested in such a comparison as I've been seriously considering to purchase one with the IPS panel for my photography work but the prices still are over my budget. I was wondering if someone could be able to do first hand comparison between the IPS and NON-IPS FHD panels and report on how much better is the IPS screen or vice versa, especially when both the screens are optimally calibrated using a pro tool such as the X-rite i1D Pro. I can save a lot of money if it's not that great of a difference in color reproduction (difference between viewing angles can be tolerated).

Your word/photo documentary would be more than welcomed. Thanks in advance.

 

How these cards were recognized by M6600 Bios?
Is somewhere here more info about replacement? sreenshots? temp? I can't find it.

 

Did you do a clean install or an upgrade from Windows 7? Any issues with drivers? (I can't see any final drivers for my AMD FirePro card)

 

me neither

So, do 680m work without particular fuss on m6600 or not?

 

I'm afraid i haven't done it, so i can't be any help.

Reading through this thread a few people have stated that both cards need their vbios flashed and the 680m may require some messing about with the driver .inf.

It would be extremely helpful if someone who has done it could write a short guide on how to do it, hint hint

 

Here are some initial pics of the actual parts used in the IPS display version of the M6600. More info to follow this week.

Scott

 

I just installed Windows 8 RTM x64. It appears to work fine although there are some devices that it does not have drivers for and it cannot find (see attached image):

-Broadcom USH w/swipe sensor
-Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250
-Mass Storage Controller
-Unknown Device

I tried the searching Dell and using the built-in driver search within Windows 8, no joy. I'll keep my eye on the forum and I'll hunt around the manufacturers sites to see if I can find something. If anyone has any tips, pleas post them.