New M6500 Discussion Thread

norsten, not sure if you got this already but here's the link:

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=374216

I'm also using the 188.43 Forceware drivers that were published to laptopvideo2go:

http://laptopvideo2go.com/nvidia/185series/18843_win7x64.exe

 

Is there any reason you guys are using the Dell Nvidia drivers over the Quadro Drivers available directly from Nvidia?

I can't imagine Dell's version would be very up to date.

 

Hi dezoris,

this is my setup as well.

M6500 | i7-920XM | 8GB PC1600 | 120GB Vertex SSD | FX3800 | RGBLED

did you update FirmWare on your Vertex 120GB SSD or was it Perfect
out of the box. You did reformat it right, and how do you like the
8GB of 1600MHz of RAM?

Your System must kick Butt


Thank You,

 

I have two Intel X-25 M Gen 2 in Raid 0 in my M6400 and the result of the querry above gives 0

This does not seem consistent with what you say above

 

I tried the one Bokeh was using (which was the most recent Nvidia) but it was giving me screen redraw issues with Visual Studio so I reverted back to the OEM but it had the same issue so I decided to try this other one.

There actually aren't any 3800M drivers on the Nvidia website, you need to modify the INF to support it.

 

Glad someone else has some taste

I don't have the M6500 in yet still waiting. I have two Vertex drives now the second one arrived today and it did not have the latest firmware I had to update it to 1.4. The drive in the M6400 was 1.3 with Win7 installed.

I actually took the gamble of flashing it with data on it and it worked.
I then ran Wiper 0525 while in Win7 to run a manual TRIM and the AS_SSD benchmark was immediately better by almost 30MB on the read and 15MB on the write.

This is my problem with SSD drives and OS support for it.
If 0 is set in the OS that means that TRIM is enabled but most people claim it is enabled even on mechanical drives.

If your drives firmware supports TRIM and the OS also has it activated it should work. However the worst part is there is no way to find out. Microsoft has no documenation on how to test when and if TRIM commands are run. There are a few things that trigger it like a delete command but if other heavy disk is occuring the TRIM command supposedly does not kick off.

Like in the situation of using Adobe scratch disks where data is constantly being written and deleted.

My comment to Manny about OCZ acknowledging this and having an application that manually TRIMs makes it all the more suspect.

I remember reading in here someone had a modified inf.
Does that actually make a difference in performance though?

 

Oh just to followup on this, OCZ claims that even when the drives firmware had TRIM enabled and the OS is set to 0 bit for TRIM support they are only seeing TRIM work when AHCI SATA operation is selected.

So it seems that when a Bios level RAID is selected or IRRT TRIM is not working.
(At least on OCZ drives)

 

Anyone try the new USB 3.0 NEC drivers available on the Dell support site yet? Do they enable USB 3.0? Is the right NEC chip in the 6500? Is USB 3.0 available on all connectors or just some?

 

Good questions...the way they've been delaying my Covet makes me wonder if they're making any kind of changes...which I can't believe they would do so shortly after launch....we'll nail this down.

 

thanks for the links...