M6600 Reliability and Stability

@slimpower disregard that last post cuz if indded you only need one more 4gb hyperx stick then your cost should be lower but I hope you got where I was coming from

@bokeh I am interested in what your approach would be in getting more ram considering your previous post about ordering all the ram you intend on using from dell and the assumption that all your slots are currently filled with stock 2gb sticks

 

I am SOOOOOO jealous AND ADMIRING too

GREAT setup, and so encouraged to see that you're using the M6600 to get all this stuff up streaming and encoding... because it's the exact same reason for me ordering from Dell and waiting for my new M6600 the 10th of Jan (so they told me).

I do nothing near (tech wise) what you have setup here;
simple 2 old (goog enough for us) Panasonic AG-DVX100B cams, Roland VR5 mixer, then straight into the M6600 (now going through my HP 8710w) that will stream (after the game it'll encode for webtv) to server, semi-pro soccer team in Italy.
Stadium attendencies average 3-5000 fans every other sunday, we get 2-300 online wathcing on team's webtv (registered users only). We keep pretty low res. for streaming, 480x360px @ 350kbps... you know how it is... in Italy "broadband" internet at decent prices is so waaaaaay behind most of the world .
Webtv aftermatch will be compressed flv, On2 VP6, 500kbps... same reason above

Good work, might ask you a hint or two for tech suggestions or setups, if i'm not bugging

 

by the way... getting me a I7-2720QM, ram 1.600MHz DDR3, Quadro 3000M, 750GB Serial ATA (7.200 Rpm)... couldn't afford more !

Running Premiere pro, Premiere CS5, AE CS4, Adobe media encoder, Photoshop CS5, Flash Media Live Encoder, Microsoft Expression Encoder, Sorenson Squeeze

 

Sounds like a very good setup. You got the 2720QM which is very important!

You should have no problems with live HD video either. We have been experimenting with 720p and 1080p over firewire straight from the cameras and it looked really good. Unfortunately we don't have an HD switcher or the long camera cables to make the shoot work. So we stick with 480p. Our high bandwidth stream is 800k 720x480, med is 500k 720x480, low is 150k 360x240. From our testing, 720p will needs at least 1000k and 1080i needs 1500k.

 

Ask anything you want. Happy to help.

BTW, we use older Sony DV decks for the S-Video to Firewire conversion. For some reason the newer JVC decks did not quite look as good. We assume that since S-Video was used more a few years ago that Sony put more effort into the Analog video stage.

 

That's exactly one of the quests You Rock !

 

hi bokeh thanks to your astonishing review I bought M6600 i7 2820QM 16GB RAM 2GB Grafik 3000M Touchscreen 1920x1080. it was good decision! work with Phase 1 DB files was newer been that comfortable. i just have had reinstall sistem and now i`m worry that i did it in wrong order. sistem doesn't seems stabile. on support site is no exact guide for m6600. can you give me some advise with this issue pls. i'm not realy expert. thank you!

 

I haven't recieved my notebook yet, but i read THIS tread, a summary of basic info, guides, what drivers to install, in what order, how to replace HDDs, etc.

Any issue/new questions though should still be discussed in the M6600 Owners' Thread, i think

 

Hi there me again, as i said i'll be asking you have pm