My Dell Precision M6800 Website

[DellBoy]

Hi guys,

 

I'm new here so I hope it's OK to start a new topic in this context.

 

Over the course of several months last year I put together a website all about the Dell Precision M6800. I first got one back in 2019 and have since fell in love with these older mobile workstations. I have also acquired much information on the machine, both through my own experimentation and research, and from scouring the web.

 

Having pages and pages of notes I made the website first and foremost as a sanity project, to force me to go through and organize everything into a semi-coherent state.

 

The site is currently hosted at one of my free webhost accounts, hence the funky address. I have been thinking about giving it a proper domain name but will see if there's enough interest as part of my decision to commit to spending actual money on it.

 

The site is entirely hand-written old-school HTML as that's what I like to use, with the added benefit of keeping it as lightweight as possible.

 

I'd love to hear your thoughts, good or bad, and recommendations for any additions. One of the areas that I don't have much experience in that I wouldn't mind expanding on is the use of unsupported graphics cards (I know there's a whole community around that), so would be open to hosting decently-written guides with pictures.

 

LINK: DELL PRECISION M6800

[DynamiteZerg]

Nice! Keep up the good work!

[JadeRover]

That's a very nice project indeed ! Keeping the interest in these old precision alive, especially info on the rare m6800 covet !

 

One small thing I noticed while looking through some of your sections, under the CPU and GPU :

 

The m6800 didn't ship with any IPS screens, I think you are referring to eDP screens (that offer upgrades to IPS lcd, instead of TN that is garanted with LVDS).

 

All pascal cards and above don't have support for LVDS, it is possible to run one in the m6800 it's just that optimus must be turned on so that the internal dipslay gets a picture from the iGPU.

 

With an eDP screen, the pascal GPUs can run the display directly, without using optimus.

 

Upgrades to an IPS eDP FHD display is possible required you have an eDP motherboard, m6800 shipped with both eDP and LVDS motherboards.

[Annihilator]

3 hours ago, JadeRover said:

With an eDP screen, the pascal GPUs can run the display directly, without using optimus.

 

Upgrades to an IPS eDP FHD display is possible required you have an eDP motherboard, m6800 shipped with both eDP and LVDS motherboards.

 

so when eDP display is in the M6800 P5000M/P5200M will work flawless? plug n play(+ .inf mod)