Precision M6700 owner's thread

[Aaron44126]

10 hours ago, aldarxt said:

Is this site legit https://www.x-vsion.com/product/mxm-radeon-rx-6600-xt-8gb/

That card seems like it will work in m6700 and the Alienware's

Its more powerful than RTX 5000 mxm

 

I'm always suspicious of an online eCommerce shop that has "really good" prices, is full of grammatical errors and misspellings, and doesn't list a physical address anywhere...

 

Anyway, you'll want to check if this card supports LVDS output.  It is new enough that it probably doesn't, and thus won't work in the Precision M6700 (unless you have an eDP display, a rarity).  M6700 doesn't support graphics switching with AMD GPUs, so you can't just rely on Optimus and run the internal display off of the Intel GPU as you could if you have a newer NVIDIA GPU installed.

[aldarxt]

14 minutes ago, Aaron44126 said:

 

I'm always suspicious of an online eCommerce shop that has "really good" prices, is full of grammatical errors and misspellings, and doesn't list a physical address anywhere...

 

Anyway, you'll want to check if this card supports LVDS output.  It is new enough that it probably doesn't, and thus won't work in the Precision M6700 (unless you have an eDP display, a rarity).  M6700 doesn't support graphics switching with AMD GPUs, so you can't just rely on Optimus and run the internal display off of the Intel GPU as you could if you have a newer NVIDIA GPU installed.

Thanks for the clarification. Also on flashing Turing found this https://github.com/notfromstatefarm/nvflashk

I was able to flash RTX 4000 maxQ

[aldarxt]

On 6/4/2023 at 4:45 PM, TruenoG7 said:

hi guys, i recently installed, a PNY QP3000 Quadro P3000 NVIDIA N17E-Q1-A1 6GB GDDR5, with the bios 86.04.70.00.1B attached photo of GPUZ, when installing it on the m6700 LVDS (optimus) and m6800 (EDP), I have a infinite loop when starting, or trying to install windows, both in pure UEFI mode, do you have a solution? On my alienware 18 it works without problems

I noticed you have a G3 i7-4900MQ in your M6700, how did you do that and will i7-4940MX work being both are G3 rPGA946B but M6700 is rPGA988B same as m18x r2 and m17x r4 and M4700

[Aaron44126]

30 minutes ago, aldarxt said:

I noticed you have a G3 i7-4900MQ in your M6700, how did you do that and will i7-4940MX work being both are G3 rPGA946B but M6700 is rPGA988B same as m18x r2 and m17x r4 and M4700

 

I think that must be a copy/paste error from the M6800 immediately below in the sig; M6700 can definitely only take 3rd-gen CPUs...

[aldarxt]

46 minutes ago, Aaron44126 said:

 

I think that must be a copy/paste error from the M6800 immediately below in the sig; M6700 can definitely only take 3rd-gen CPUs...

Thanks I was getting my hopes up on some new technology

[AndrewK2685]

Hm I'm a bit sceptical about the X-Vision site too.

It does not provide an online payment and needs a bank transfer without bank details...

Anyway I'll give it a try and report, but without high hopes.

In the meantime, the RX 5500 XTs started appearing on ebay.

Although sadly not the ray tracing RX 6600s at the moment.

For everyone interested:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266552329677?var=566322070646

[aldarxt]

1 hour ago, AndrewK2685 said:

Hm I'm a bit sceptical about the X-Vision site too.

It does not provide an online payment and needs a bank transfer without bank details...

Anyway I'll give it a try and report, but without high hopes.

In the meantime, the RX 5500 XTs started appearing on ebay.

Although sadly not the ray tracing RX 6600s at the moment.

For everyone interested:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266552329677?var=566322070646

I wouldn't bother, too many red flags and the price is ridiculously low

[Aaron44126]

2 hours ago, AndrewK2685 said:

It does not provide an online payment and needs a bank transfer without bank details...

 

This is another red flag.  It really seems to be a textbook scam site; lure people in with low prices and then make them pay using a payment method that is difficult/impossible to revoke when you don't deliver a product.  Without any actual business details listed, even filing a legal challenge to be reimbursed would be difficult.  Do not buy anything using a payment method that you won't be able to reverse or dispute, unless you have some reason to really trust that you will get what you paid for...

[TheQuentincc]

On 1/2/2024 at 4:07 PM, Aaron44126 said:

 

I'm always suspicious of an online eCommerce shop that has "really good" prices, is full of grammatical errors and misspellings, and doesn't list a physical address anywhere...

 

Anyway, you'll want to check if this card supports LVDS output.  It is new enough that it probably doesn't, and thus won't work in the Precision M6700 (unless you have an eDP display, a rarity).  M6700 doesn't support graphics switching with AMD GPUs, so you can't just rely on Optimus and run the internal display off of the Intel GPU as you could if you have a newer NVIDIA GPU installed.

The upgrade is pretty cheap (and nice if you buy an IPS or 2k+ panel), it's like buying the "3D cable" and a 17.3" 40pin eDP display (most of 1080p one are 30pins so be carefull) then it's working right away with the dGPU