mxm gpu upgrade Dell Precison M6800 MxM GPU

[Reciever]

27 minutes ago, MelonicOverlord said:

I apologise however it's a totally different subject to the last post and is not deserving of its own post for one simple answer.

Does the fan manager save the settings past a reboot?

 

Sorry, not going to fly. Please adhere to the forum guidelines. 

 

Thanks

[MelonicOverlord]

Cool, nice to know I can't get help as updating a post which is 2 days old won't update anything & show I responded. Would've been cool if you guys actually put your guidelines in a place where people can find them, I searched for a good 10 mins looking for it and still did not find.


SpeedFan is very cool and this is exactly what I was after. The temps are actually under control and are what I would consider normal for once. I think I will likely write a powershell script to automatically turn off the EC fan control at login and start SpeedFan (which will hopefully auto restore its previous settings). Still no clue what on earth I'm going to sort for Linux... There's probably some way of doing similar to this. I'm still yet to test it and see if it even gives a display out. Thanks for all the help with the M6800. Gaming has also been pretty good on the M6, only stumble I've seen so far is with COD MW2 where I'm only getting 30fps no matter what I set (and nothing is seeing full utilisation, probably game engine skill issue).

[Reciever]

43 minutes ago, MelonicOverlord said:

Cool, nice to know I can't get help as updating a post which is 2 days old won't update anything & show I responded. Would've been cool if you guys actually put your guidelines in a place where people can find them, I searched for a good 10 mins looking for it and still did not find.


SpeedFan is very cool and this is exactly what I was after. The temps are actually under control and are what I would consider normal for once. I think I will likely write a powershell script to automatically turn off the EC fan control at login and start SpeedFan (which will hopefully auto restore its previous settings). Still no clue what on earth I'm going to sort for Linux... There's probably some way of doing similar to this. I'm still yet to test it and see if it even gives a display out. Thanks for all the help with the M6800. Gaming has also been pretty good on the M6, only stumble I've seen so far is with COD MW2 where I'm only getting 30fps no matter what I set (and nothing is seeing full utilisation, probably game engine skill issue).

 

Its the same as the TOS to which you agreed to make an account here. No one is saying you cant get help, only that you share visibility with the community fairly. You are not the only one seeking information.

[Aaron44126]

44 minutes ago, MelonicOverlord said:

Cool, nice to know I can't get help as updating a post which is 2 days old won't update anything & show I responded.

 

I think @Reciever is referring to your multiple back-to-back posts minutes apart (which appear to have been cleaned up), not necessarily your post about the fans more than a day later.

 

This tool can control fans in Linux using the same mechanism.

https://github.com/clopez/dellfan

You can manually set EC fan control off and set a specific fan speed.  I'm unaware of any tool on Linux which bridges this method with a fan curve offering like SpeedFan.

[MelonicOverlord]

Thanks for that too, I can make good use of that tool as well. I think thats all issues with this laptop solved now - maybe some time I might upgrade the 4710MQ to a 4940MX (or whatever the extreme i7 was) but for now there's 0 point - especially with how much power it already draws.