Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Sorry, but if L4D dies on your PC and mine is fine with these drivers, I think I'm gonna pass. Thanks for the tip though.

 

L4D died with all other drivers I tried too (I tried alot from stock 176.44, to the newest 185.20). It seems to have another issue. I stick with 179.44 because I get the highest frames per seconds in GTA 4 and it's a certified driver, so I don't have to change the driver when I go back to work.

 

Then take off that glass !

I believe the only difference between the E2E RGB-LED and the normal RGB-LED is the glass plate (that makes it an expensive piece of glass, even if it does increase contrast).

There aren't many 17' WUXGA RGB-LED screen available on the market, so they both must use the same LP171WU5 by LG.
Owners of those 2 screens could confirm model, please ?

 

Mine (details in sig) will come next week. It has the non-glossy RGBLED and I'll let you know about the screen model.

On a sidenote should I do a clean install anyway, or only if problems arise? Is there a consensus on the matter?

 

The model number will not help. There's only 1 RGB-LED screen from LG available at the moment. So HP and Dell probably use the same screen, but all screens (Dell --> HP) have different numbers.

Perhaps you can take some pics of your screen, than we can compare. I can't remove the glass plate, because it's not just a bezel. It's a complete cover and I don't know if I can replace it by a bezel (some guys from Dell told me it's not possible). When I exchanged my display because of a dead pixel, the Dell guy brought a complete display (incl. cover and glassplate) and not only the screen, like they normaly do when you get a screen replacement)...

I saw some pics of the HP dreamcolor screen, and it shows the typical matte behaviour (black is some kind of grey and the colors looks a bit washed out due to the matte coating). That's exactly what I didn't want, and why I ordered the E2E screen.

 

New WUXGA Mac Book Pro use that LP171WU5 by LG too. Actually I assume they all use the same screen (Dell, HP & Mac...) for 17' WUXGA RGB-LED.

 

But the new 17" MacBook Pro only has a color gamut of 72% (apple says 60% more than standard --> 45% * 1,6 = 72%).

Perhaps it's because they don't use RGB-LEDs to get better battery life.

 

I would do a clean install right off the bat, but I'm quite picky.

 

not sure if anyone has mentioned this or not, but new a04 2700m and 3700m drivers have been posted on dell's driver page

 

Yus - I'd only install them if you are having issues.
My previously stable M6400 became a BSOD nightmare after installing the latest fx2700m driver. Although I did install the Vista Wireless feature pack (also available at the dell site) at the same time - so it could have been either. I've reverted to a previous image now - and all is stable again.