Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

if you go into the Nvidia control panel under advanced 3d settings you'll see "set physx configuration".
You can now use a nvidia card 8800 or higher for physx if you have 2 cards in your system. I've no idea why it's enabled as the m6400 has only one video..bit weird but some more hours of gaming toniht with no issues again so i'm hoping that's it sorted now.
I'm currently using modded 185.55 drivers.

 

Did you locate the slim brick?

 

Thanks everyone for your replies ... I went ahead and took the plunge.

I placed the order for my Quadcore 3700m m6400 tonight ... now the anxious waiting begins

 

Yeah I did, but I no longer need it as I sold my M6400 this afternoon. If anyone wants it, I am willing to sell it to them if they want it.

 

Rather than rewrite a longer request please go back a page and see what you think of the offer, or questions of an offer or whatever. Thanks in advance, take a number right? That'd make me number one if this turns into an auction. Hope not because it's much harder to come by one in Costa Rica.

And how did the sale turn out? I mean did you get the $650 discount on your soon to be new M4400? And if I'm not getting too personal, what did you sell it for? Curious only because I know nothing of what an almost new maxed out high end machine returns and would like to know since I have an almost identical system. As far as trading down from the one to the other I think you're nuts, but don't take it personally, I'm just still marveling at the jump in the total tech package compared to a not much older M6300. I'd much preffered they just gave the 6300 the features and options of the 6400 instead of a whole new model. The offset touchpad is even further to the left than most offset pads and if not disabled makes typing impossible for me. If I had the tech savy I'd try to stuff the internals of my Covet in a M6300 case but go back to what is a really fine machine? No way no how. The twin drives and the edge to edge thing alone are worth more than 650 to me. Good luck with your decision and your new M4400.

 

Thanks much for the response and pardon my thickness but need further clarification please. OK, went to the Nvidia control panel, advanced 3D settings, and get a window with two tabs. One is 'program settings' and is just a blank box and only one choice which is to 'add' something to the blank place and when I click 'add' My Documents' comes up, so I'm lost. But without describing all the things I did find, and I did find a lot, what I didn't find was a 'set psysx configuration' anywhere. I have a Covet with the 3700 card and it's probably right in front of me here but so far I can't find it. You obviously know lots more than me if you use 'modded' anything but if it's of any signifigance I'm using the last driver before the latest one. If it ain't broke don't fix it is the advice I've gotten from people that know more than me and it seems to work fine that way, but this whole 'modding' scene interests me and I'm just trying to get a cheap education here. Any help is always appreciated. Thanks again.

 

There are two places you can find this PhysX thing.
One: if you use newer/modded driver other than the one Dell offered, it's in the Nvidia Control panel.
Two: if you use the driver Dell posted, open Control Panel and look for: 'View 32-bit Control Panel Items'
For me, it was installed with the games so you may not see it at all.

 

Sorry if I'm becoming a pest here but you've got me determined to find this damn thing and no, none of your suggestions worked. That's not including these 'modded' drivers you speak of. If you'd care to tell me a bit about this non Dell driver and where it can be had or why it's worth the trouble I'm willing to try that if necessary to turn this physx off. I've been using these things for years.....for work, and as long as it worked my programs I didn't care. Now I'm in the jungle (literally), am on my own as far as keeping this thing running pretty much, plus I'm getting interested in what's inside and how to work with it. I've been doing pretty good on a steep learning curve and am pissed that I can't even find this thing. Plus when you mentioned 'modded' drivers I got to wondering if this work oriented card can improve it's performance on my flight simulators, though they work pretty damn good as far as my eyes can see and I run the programs at max resolution and realism settings. I've read about this 'psysx' thing and understood it's something not much used in todays software but sometimes in the near future might be, plus I'm a maintenance freak and try to kill off as many processes and services as possible and all the things to make as lean and clean a machine as possible. And also a heat freak, as in I always use a Zalman cooling stand with a fan on me and the computer to keep bugs, volcano ash and cigarette smoke away from it. 51 Centigrade is the hottest the GPUs been and that was under heavy load and losing some more degrees alone makes this a must figure out deal for me. Thanks again for any more clues you might come up with.

 

I got 2500 for my laptop, the M4400 cost me only 1500 so I ended up making 1000 of it. I just don't game as much anymore and need something a tad lighter to take around. Also with me leaving my job this week and about to start a new one, financially this might be the best bet for me for now. I will say that the M6400 has been one of my favorite laptops to use.

 

The modded drivers are here on
http://laptopvideo2go.com/

Basically these are nvidia released video drivers but with the .inf file modified.(tells window whether video card is supported).
These give better performance than the dells as normally they're about 5-6 versions behind at least.
If you don't know about it you obviously don't have them installed and more than likely you don't have physx installed.
If your happy with your video drivers at present no need to update.
51c is a great temp for this card at load and tbh you're not going to get it lower.
I was getting nearly 80c on mine and once i disabled physx it dropped to about 65c. Still miles off yours
So like I said don't worry about it