Nice upgrade! I've got the successor to this model - the Precision M6700 - fully maxed out with the i7 3940XM, 32GB RAM, GTX 980M, 256GB mSATA SSD and two 1TB SSHD's. These machines have aged shockingly well and will still get you a load of performance for a veriety of workloads. Doom Eternal runs at high settings which was a genuine surprise, but I'm attributing that to the 980M's Vulkan support. The processors you can put in these machines are no slouch either, easily able to smash their way through day to day use and can play a lot of modern games on the market! Plus you get build quality that is quite simply unparalleled in modern laptops. Seriously can't reccommend the M6600/M6700/M6800 enough. Yeah they're nearly 10 years old at this point but these machines still have a lot of life in them, and thankfully, as demonstrated in this video - if you're ok with removing a LOT of screws then these machines are piss easy to maintain and upgrade!
I bought a Dell M6700 and this laptop is a beast. I got a firepro m6000 but still, i can play many recent games with some tweaks. And it only cost 200€ with 16gb ram and 2 ssd. I couldn't be happier. Just wish i could upgrade the gpu like i've seen people doing, i could buy a gtx 970m but i don't know how easy it would be to install it.
I had mine maxed out with a T7600 cpu, ssd, 4gb of ram and an egpu. Recently modded it by replacing the motherboard with one from the D630 and a similar cpu. Next I'll be able to get a bit better cpu, the gpu got a little bit better and more importantly I'll be able to go up to 8GB of ram.
I have one M6700. I love it !! - its all upgradable !! has 4 ram slot memory !! - cooling with 2 fans !!! extra HDD bay !! - one of the best Dells ever made !
The Dell Precision is the top of the line mobile workstation. They came with high end components for the business environment and were also employed by content creators, artists, engineers and scientists. Very pricey!
Simply amazing! I am also passionate about restoring "old" laptops. While I am not at your level, I have on my bench a Dell Precision M6800 that I am breathing a second life into.
I still have working Dell M6500 and Dell M6700 - I did have to just replace the SSD in the Dell M6500 but it still works great as does my Dell Alienware R17 which is my daily livestream 24/7 365 day laptop for earthquake monitoring. The power bricks that come with these are massive. So I love Dell laptops at home. Thank you for sharing this as I am sure that one day my Dells will stop working.
After watching this videos, I learn now how to repair my laptop internals by myself. I can also now offer repair services to others. Thank you for your informative videos ♥️♥️
Appreciated it, I'm using the same machine and was thinking about making some upgrades. I found this and the other video of yours that has published in August 2020. These are really helpful to me. Thanks a lot.
Brilliant work. Those Dell 6600s-6700s-6800s was (and even now is) truly the masterpieces of the laptop world. I own M6700 myself and don't really want to leave it. Upgraded it with Tesla M6 few days ago, and now it's a blast.
Love this generation of Dell Precision. I picked up a M6800 for £70, no charger (had one already) and supposedly only 4GB RAM and no HDD. When it arrived, found that it has a i7 4940XM processor, Quadro K5100M with 8GB DDR5, a 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM! Such an underrated beast.
Impressive to see that with some little and simple change like termale paste, more ram and an ssd a cpu and a gpu that old can run semi modern to modern games
Yes! These are excellent laptops. I own 4 of them. They all rock! You did an excellent cleaning job on your model. I also had a couple of dents that I used a piece of wood and a rubber mallet to fix.
Very good video, I love the people that repair and upgrade old computers in this case laptops, all the time that you take to clean, wash and polish it. You can really learn its about how you take another view of the value of the things, is not only replace for a new one, JUST I LOVE IT, thanks for the lesson!!!!!
I am watching this amazing video in 2023 from my M6600 that I just took out of my son's closet. It was my first Dell workstation, and I squezed the hell out of this beast for 6-7 years in my office and on the road through europe, before upgrading to a newer yet cheaper laptop (Acer Predator Helios 300 2019, sigh). Never opened it, never cleaned the fans, never repasted, nothing. It was on 24/7. It started getting pretty laggy and temps we're rising all the time, also had one of the hard disks (main) fail and die on me, so I eventually gave up on it. The power button is missing, the screen has a few dying pixels, but the rest of the laptop is in great shape. If I remember correctly it might also have a dead hdmi port, I'll check later. Tried to boot it but it, had a faulty Win7 on it and wouldn't boot correctly so i just installed a fresh Win10 pro and it's running smooth. These are my specs: Intel i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz 16,0 GB SK Hynix [4 x 4GB DDR3 SDRAM 800.0 MHz (DDR3-1600 / PC3-12800)] Intel HD Graphics 3000 NVIDIA Quadro 3000M 2048 MByte di GDDR5 SDRAM Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB Your video inspired me, I think I'll finally give it back some love opening it up, clean the essentials and repaste. In your video i see you haven't replased the thermal pads, how come since you were at it? 😂 While I'm there I'd also like to do some affordable upgrades. If I can revamp this tank a bit, I'll hook it up to my projector and use it as a media station. I was thinking of upgrading the ram, the wifi antenna, maybe the gpu and adding a msata ssd. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks again for the video, earned you a sub!
I have the same laptop and I use 32gb of ram in it and I removed the Quadro card and replaced it with the ATI (now AMD) and saw an immediate improvement in the CAD work I use it for. Its crazy how well this laptop has held up for being 10 years old
It is a real shame that the top was dented and, despite the dents were removed, there were marks left. This is a very beautiful laptop, and I saw another one before here in the channel. Almost bought one for work. Congrats for the restoration and keep those 96% isopropyl alcohol at hand.
It is so delightful to watch that kind of a highend laptop being restored. Those unmatching RAM stick are the only thing that booted up my OCD on xD but for the rest of the job, that's superb
Love these older Dell Workstation laptops. They were tanks but they worked great. I got 2 m4700s my job was going to throw away. Kept one and gave the other to my brother. Now I'm thinking about dusting it off and seeing what I can upgrade on it.
I swear that my next laptop has to have at least as many heat pipes as this one. Seriously, I love how this model is built. Looks 100% robust and quality
That’s Rise of the Tomb Raider lol I’m huge fan of that series! Also, I suggest maybe you do a breakdown of how much money you spend at the end in future videos
A possibly unintended side of Andrew's art of restoration is that it shows how well thought out and magnificently built older Dell Precisions were. Some could be specified with good webcams, backlit keyboards and even Blu-ray DVD players/standard burners made by LiteOn. They were extensively used in the medical profession and actually still are in preference to inferior modern iterations lacking ports, cooling space and key components soldered in. GPUs at the time were prone to failure (especially Nvidia ones) but Dell used a modular system which allowed GPUs to be, relatively, simple to repair by technicians of a high standard -- like Andrew. The 17" M6600 was one of Dell's masterpiece computers, here seen being restored by a true young master.
I am so happy you are doing another m6600 video. I have one and it’s weird but it’s laggy when using the side loaded SSD for the os but when I mount an ssd under the palm rest or use a 1tb mSata it’s not laggy at all. I also have a 2gb quadro 4000 in mine but want to upgrade, but I have ran into a million and one issues most being with the bios.
The video I need. I'm in a project of bringing into life a old PC, with intel Pentium D. I didn't understand what was happening with Windows 10 (it got crash everytime) untill a wachted this video.
I really enjoy your videos Man if everybody was like you. We wouldn't have so many computer parts in landfills poisoning the soil. You are incredible very good skills you have 👍👍👍
awesome work Andrew, I also have the same laptop which I bought 5 years ago and still running perfect. I did upgrade the RAM and Hard drive. Your video is great, you showed a lot of great detail and your work is near impecable. Keep up the good work
I've been dealing with computers for what feels like forever, yet watching you methodically go through and resurrect these systems feels very cathartic. By the way, would that happen to be a background from Tron: Uprising I've seen on this and a few other of your projects? :) Keep up the good work, Program. :)
The m6600 used to be my daily for a solid two years until an upgrade went bad but anyway the weak link for this model is the mxm where there is a lack of options. For those who's Firepro M8900 that is crapping out or has already died can easily just toss in a Firepro M6100 that cost as little as $20 sometimes on eBay while those with a quadro would have to get the amd heatsink to make the same upgrade. Some Kepler Quadros can work though are much more expensive and are slower for the money with only one upside to having 4gb vram rather than the meager 2gb. Some M6600s come with a Quadro 5010m installed and that has 4gb vram as well but with no driver support playing newish games is limited. Ultimately I upgraded to an M6700 that is a lot nicer than the m6600 with the exception to a couple of connectors on the board like for the track pad ect.
I like with these massive laptops there was not enough room on the screen to put a webcam even though all my other smaller dell laptops from that age have them. People forget that even if the screen is completely broken you can still attach a external monitor and keep a working laptop for a while longer to get more life out of it and these dells have great connectivity in the way of external screen options. they make great youtube livestreaming computers as they protect the machine against power spikes. I did not realize that the CPU were socketed based. I hate replacing screens People used to laugh at me when I would come into meeting with these dell M6K laptops until they could not connect to the video screen because they had the wrong connectors ?VGS/HDMI/Display port - These thing had everything you could want.
Some had webcams and backlit keyboards. They were among Dell's options and pushed these beautifully made workstations to anticipate the future without losing the best of the past. Modern Dells are inferior in practically every way.
This man is a mad man 👍 he enjoys his work.. any company in the world especially the government would like to hire him to work in their computers he probably . more but he's not showing.. I enjoy your video You have very very good skills. I probably should send my computers to him to fix I wonder where he lives what country you sound like it's German.?? Good luck and better wishes keep it up man you do very well
Hi Andrew, I love your videos and the methods you use to disassemble a laptop and build a PC, and I get really sad when I don't find any recent videos. You take too many days to make a video.......I know that you have to collect the laptop, it's parts to upgrade, and download games from steam.....you are my real inspiration. But please try to upload newer videos earlier if possible.............Love from Kolkata, India.
Andrew, thanks for your sharing. I love to watch your restoration video. For the broken monitor, how you find the new one? And how to know which monitor model is suitable? I am upgrading the old notebook just like you, but the notebook comes from friends and for free. I wondering how to upgrade the broken monitor or can I upgrade the 1366*768 monitor to 1920*1080 monitor. Looking forward to your reply. Thanks.
“96% isopropyl alcohol.” 💙
😂
"96% missing driver on Windows."💙
Psivewri: *hEaLtHy ThOsE Of EuCaLyPtUs OiL*
@@fldrsilikaun 😂
😌👍🏾
This guys spends more than he earn appreciation for his efforts
Just love your videos
he sells stuff
he gets these laptops for dirt cheap
and he must be having like low cost for shipping from china from the pace he lives
0% nudity
0% drugs
96% isopropyl alcohol ❤❤
😂
What about the rest 4%?
4% cat *meow*
where's the 4 percent?
0+0+96 is not 100
2960XM and Quadro 4000M
That's still good even by today, almost 10 years later.
Great job again!
I really enjoy when he said "96% isopropyl alcohol"
Yes tag line 😸
yes bro. many of us come here to just hear that 96% iso pro pail alcohol🤣
and "Because" and "Be very careful" too
@@angrybird409 and "I mean" lmao
Me too
This laptop is the most perfect for me, I do heavy work such as cave exploration so this laptop is great even if I drop it
This guy has his own factory of isopropyl alcohol😂😂
🤣
He took their entire stock
@@ryanabdillah9215 baik ah
Then you should see what I have 🤣
Hospitals go through a lot of alcohol
@@Nurse_Xochitloh interesting
Nice upgrade! I've got the successor to this model - the Precision M6700 - fully maxed out with the i7 3940XM, 32GB RAM, GTX 980M, 256GB mSATA SSD and two 1TB SSHD's. These machines have aged shockingly well and will still get you a load of performance for a veriety of workloads. Doom Eternal runs at high settings which was a genuine surprise, but I'm attributing that to the 980M's Vulkan support. The processors you can put in these machines are no slouch either, easily able to smash their way through day to day use and can play a lot of modern games on the market! Plus you get build quality that is quite simply unparalleled in modern laptops. Seriously can't reccommend the M6600/M6700/M6800 enough. Yeah they're nearly 10 years old at this point but these machines still have a lot of life in them, and thankfully, as demonstrated in this video - if you're ok with removing a LOT of screws then these machines are piss easy to maintain and upgrade!
I bought a Dell M6700 and this laptop is a beast. I got a firepro m6000 but still, i can play many recent games with some tweaks. And it only cost 200€ with 16gb ram and 2 ssd. I couldn't be happier. Just wish i could upgrade the gpu like i've seen people doing, i could buy a gtx 970m but i don't know how easy it would be to install it.
That sounds awesome. I'm running a Thinkpad with a 940mx and the graphics are so anemic. I'm considering looking into one of these.
@@nickwillard4471 the dell precision 7510 is a great laptop
GTX 980m? That's a first I've seen those in that
@@Maximus20778 I put a gtx 980m in my M6800 it's a beast now
Almost bought one of these but ended up doing some custom upgrades on my dell d620. I'd buy one of these any day.
What do you upgrade in your d620
I should upgrade my d620 but don't know where to start
@@znckovwkdw5073 ram and hdd to ssd
I had mine maxed out with a T7600 cpu, ssd, 4gb of ram and an egpu. Recently modded it by replacing the motherboard with one from the D630 and a similar cpu. Next I'll be able to get a bit better cpu, the gpu got a little bit better and more importantly I'll be able to go up to 8GB of ram.
@@ruxcooking can I upgrade the cpu without changing the motherboard to d630
Had to use 1 of those for work back when they were new. A decent laptop for it's time, but MAN what a heavy beast! Lol.
I have one M6700. I love it !! - its all upgradable !! has 4 ram slot memory !! - cooling with 2 fans !!! extra HDD bay !! - one of the best Dells ever made !
Love how he makes dead trash computers going to graveyard And gives them new life and better one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Always love to give you my time
Feels valuable use of 25.39 minutes of time.
I can't stand that slow and peaceful talk, that's why I watch the video on 1.75 speed.
I love these Dell Precision laptops. I have a M4800, and I love that all components are replaceable and upgradeable.
The Dell Precision is the top of the line mobile workstation. They came with high end components for the business environment and were also employed by content creators, artists, engineers and scientists. Very pricey!
This was a Sponge Bob processor, how come you didnt heard of that? 😂
That's the new Core Aye! SpongeBob inside 🤣
Glad to see you, while maintaining authenticity without any mods just like usual.
Simply amazing! I am also passionate about restoring "old" laptops. While I am not at your level, I have on my bench a Dell Precision M6800 that I am breathing a second life into.
I still have working Dell M6500 and Dell M6700 - I did have to just replace the SSD in the Dell M6500 but it still works great as does my Dell Alienware R17 which is my daily livestream 24/7 365 day laptop for earthquake monitoring. The power bricks that come with these are massive.
So I love Dell laptops at home.
Thank you for sharing this as I am sure that one day my Dells will stop working.
After watching this videos, I learn now how to repair my laptop internals by myself. I can also now offer repair services to others. Thank you for your informative videos ♥️♥️
Great to hear bro :) btw I'm working on expending my channel to other content and more informative
Appreciated it, I'm using the same machine and was thinking about making some upgrades. I found this and the other video of yours that has published in August 2020. These are really helpful to me. Thanks a lot.
Did you know that this laptop has a msata slot
I love the ''old but gold'' hardware, just like the 2010-2013 hp elitebook series
@@0w3nn I have an awesome msi ge70 2oe o11ne
Found in dumpster
Lol
Yep old but "GOLD"
@@FS--ew3se i have acer 4732z
@@JehanPrasetyo.p I also have an system with
I7-2600K
970 GTX
2 ssd
2 TV hdd
16gb ram
Msi military class 2
@@FS--ew3se 😭😭😭
My laptop is
Pentium t4400
Intel gma4500
4gb ram
500gb hardisk
And yeah you know acer 4732z
I'm really fond of these old ivy lake laptops, I just love the form factor and ports. if only framework would make one like that.
Brilliant work. Those Dell 6600s-6700s-6800s was (and even now is) truly the masterpieces of the laptop world. I own M6700 myself and don't really want to leave it. Upgraded it with Tesla M6 few days ago, and now it's a blast.
One of the best laptops to reappear again. My dream laptop-Dell Precision m6800. These laptop series were a complete beast.
I agree :D the build quality of these laptops is to keep 1000 years in use
Love this generation of Dell Precision. I picked up a M6800 for £70, no charger (had one already) and supposedly only 4GB RAM and no HDD. When it arrived, found that it has a i7 4940XM processor, Quadro K5100M with 8GB DDR5, a 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM! Such an underrated beast.
Whether you read this message or not, you are my hero. Very inspirational
Hey Andrew! I love your videos. But just one thing: could you please start adding CHAPTER MARKERS? That'd be really cool 😊
Thank you for the tips on using a wood block to bang out the dents and the software tips for the driver issues. Great video
Impressive to see that with some little and simple change like termale paste, more ram and an ssd a cpu and a gpu that old can run semi modern to modern games
You basically swap everything that can be swapped, I wouldn't call that simple
its currently 10pm in my region, and this video is worth watching before sleep.
do you live in asia or america
@@Minecraftgodness09 asia
Admiro mucho tu trabajo y todas las restauraciones que haces, sos un profesional de primer nivel. Gracias por enseñarnos tanto.
Gracias por apoyar mi trabajo :)
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew Gracias a vos por mostrar tanto y tan instructivo. Saludos desde Argentina.
HUGE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND LOVE TO TECHNOLOGY.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND HOW YOU TREAT GADGETS.
you never cease to amaze, you continue to inspire to restore computer and lessen e-waste
Thanks Andrew for this video. More and more I learn about upgrading laptops. You are a very good teacher. Kind regards from Bogotá, Colombia
Yes! These are excellent laptops. I own 4 of them. They all rock! You did an excellent cleaning job on your model. I also had a couple of dents that I used a piece of wood and a rubber mallet to fix.
Very good video, I love the people that repair and upgrade old computers in this case laptops, all the time that you take to clean, wash and polish it. You can really learn its about how you take another view of the value of the things, is not only replace for a new one, JUST I LOVE IT, thanks for the lesson!!!!!
I am watching this amazing video in 2023 from my M6600 that I just took out of my son's closet. It was my first Dell workstation, and I squezed the hell out of this beast for 6-7 years in my office and on the road through europe, before upgrading to a newer yet cheaper laptop (Acer Predator Helios 300 2019, sigh). Never opened it, never cleaned the fans, never repasted, nothing. It was on 24/7. It started getting pretty laggy and temps we're rising all the time, also had one of the hard disks (main) fail and die on me, so I eventually gave up on it. The power button is missing, the screen has a few dying pixels, but the rest of the laptop is in great shape. If I remember correctly it might also have a dead hdmi port, I'll check later.
Tried to boot it but it, had a faulty Win7 on it and wouldn't boot correctly so i just installed a fresh Win10 pro and it's running smooth.
These are my specs:
Intel i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz
16,0 GB SK Hynix [4 x 4GB DDR3 SDRAM 800.0 MHz (DDR3-1600 / PC3-12800)]
Intel HD Graphics 3000
NVIDIA Quadro 3000M 2048 MByte di GDDR5 SDRAM
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
Your video inspired me, I think I'll finally give it back some love opening it up, clean the essentials and repaste. In your video i see you haven't replased the thermal pads, how come since you were at it? 😂 While I'm there I'd also like to do some affordable upgrades. If I can revamp this tank a bit, I'll hook it up to my projector and use it as a media station.
I was thinking of upgrading the ram, the wifi antenna, maybe the gpu and adding a msata ssd. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks again for the video, earned you a sub!
Have you been able to change anything? I would like to repower it, I am about to buy an SSD since it has an HDD, and uncover it and clean it.
I have the same laptop and I use 32gb of ram in it and I removed the Quadro card and replaced it with the ATI (now AMD) and saw an immediate improvement in the CAD work I use it for. Its crazy how well this laptop has held up for being 10 years old
Watching the polishing process is satisfying
You're amazing ❤️❤️❤️.... Where does all your such restored laptops go??
Bro he upgrades or restores them for his family or friends he told me once in comments and I think the left ones he sells it or keeps some with him
although confused, but always amazed by his work. Good job, man. I like
It is a real shame that the top was dented and, despite the dents were removed, there were marks left. This is a very beautiful laptop, and I saw another one before here in the channel. Almost bought one for work. Congrats for the restoration and keep those 96% isopropyl alcohol at hand.
Thank you bro :D yep, the dents cannot be completely removed, scratch will always left behind
It is so delightful to watch that kind of a highend laptop being restored. Those unmatching RAM stick are the only thing that booted up my OCD on xD but for the rest of the job, that's superb
You inspired me to help my friend upgrade and restore my friends laptop and mine. This help me to face online class. Thumbs up👍
Great restoration again man.
As always clean and perfect.
This machine is the perfect one for daily tasks.
this video reminds me how much I miss my old Dell E6440.
Love these older Dell Workstation laptops. They were tanks but they worked great. I got 2 m4700s my job was going to throw away. Kept one and gave the other to my brother. Now I'm thinking about dusting it off and seeing what I can upgrade on it.
You could've upgraded to an M Sata SSD. There's a specific slot for it. Great video!
You’re the reason why I worked on laptop especially dell and Lenovo laptop because it’s fun to work with.
It's always satisfying to watch your videos, Andrew! Keep goind with the excellent job!
im simply speechless, totally love your work
Thank you so much 😀
I have these notebooks. I upgraded to a AMD R9 M290X 4GB (HD8970M) and it works great.
I swear that my next laptop has to have at least as many heat pipes as this one. Seriously, I love how this model is built. Looks 100% robust and quality
That’s Rise of the Tomb Raider lol I’m huge fan of that series! Also, I suggest maybe you do a breakdown of how much money you spend at the end in future videos
A possibly unintended side of Andrew's art of restoration is that it shows how well thought out and magnificently built older Dell Precisions were. Some could be specified with good webcams, backlit keyboards and even Blu-ray DVD players/standard burners made by LiteOn. They were extensively used in the medical profession and actually still are in preference to inferior modern iterations lacking ports, cooling space and key components soldered in.
GPUs at the time were prone to failure (especially Nvidia ones) but Dell used a modular system which allowed GPUs to be, relatively, simple to repair by technicians of a high standard -- like Andrew.
The 17" M6600 was one of Dell's masterpiece computers, here seen being restored by a true young master.
Indeed and the peak of these was the Precision M6800, of which I now have three, including the Covet Edition!
these Dell M6600 is like a nokia 3310. Almost unbreakable. I had one for a long time and those Dell laptops where such a good quality.
I am so happy you are doing another m6600 video. I have one and it’s weird but it’s laggy when using the side loaded SSD for the os but when I mount an ssd under the palm rest or use a 1tb mSata it’s not laggy at all. I also have a 2gb quadro 4000 in mine but want to upgrade, but I have ran into a million and one issues most being with the bios.
You are just awesome, better technician then me, I would never venture to do such a extensive laptop repairs. Good Work.
The video I need. I'm in a project of bringing into life a old PC, with intel Pentium D. I didn't understand what was happening with Windows 10 (it got crash everytime) untill a wachted this video.
The Build quality of these old laptops are next level, Shame they don't make them like that anymore.
I'm glad you were able to fix your laptop I hope you left him negative feedback
I was waiting for your video from 1 month
This is entertaining. Restoring old laptops. Noice.
one of the best video on the internet
I really enjoy your videos Man if everybody was like you.
We wouldn't have so many computer parts in landfills poisoning the soil.
You are incredible very good skills you have 👍👍👍
Very satisfying video. I loved it!!
awesome work Andrew, I also have the same laptop which I bought 5 years ago and still running perfect. I did upgrade the RAM and Hard drive. Your video is great, you showed a lot of great detail and your work is near impecable. Keep up the good work
This laptop is still working, a few months ago I saw it, still in function.
Finally!! This would be my personal best at being so early to a video🔥
Great Video! I've refurbished M6600 myself in the past but nothing this extreme. Great Job!
I've been dealing with computers for what feels like forever, yet watching you methodically go through and resurrect these systems feels very cathartic. By the way, would that happen to be a background from Tron: Uprising I've seen on this and a few other of your projects? :) Keep up the good work, Program. :)
Loved the way he pronunce his name An-dru😁
Im Hoping you upload more like this videos as soon as possible because i like the way you inspire people to resurrect laptops
Shadow of the "thumb" raider :)))
You can't ever unsee it!!
That is taking refurbishing to another level!! Beautiful work.
The m6600 used to be my daily for a solid two years until an upgrade went bad but anyway the weak link for this model is the mxm where there is a lack of options. For those who's Firepro M8900 that is crapping out or has already died can easily just toss in a Firepro M6100 that cost as little as $20 sometimes on eBay while those with a quadro would have to get the amd heatsink to make the same upgrade. Some Kepler Quadros can work though are much more expensive and are slower for the money with only one upside to having 4gb vram rather than the meager 2gb. Some M6600s come with a Quadro 5010m installed and that has 4gb vram as well but with no driver support playing newish games is limited. Ultimately I upgraded to an M6700 that is a lot nicer than the m6600 with the exception to a couple of connectors on the board like for the track pad ect.
I found one for a nice bargain on ebay and I confirm, this is a super computer !
Worked on many of these in my days, well built units.
I like with these massive laptops there was not enough room on the screen to put a webcam even though all my other smaller dell laptops from that age have them.
People forget that even if the screen is completely broken you can still attach a external monitor and keep a working laptop for a while longer to get more life out of it and these dells have great connectivity in the way of external screen options. they make great youtube livestreaming computers as they protect the machine against power spikes.
I did not realize that the CPU were socketed based.
I hate replacing screens
People used to laugh at me when I would come into meeting with these dell M6K laptops until they could not connect to the video screen because they had the wrong connectors ?VGS/HDMI/Display port - These thing had everything you could want.
Some had webcams and backlit keyboards. They were among Dell's options and pushed these beautifully made workstations to anticipate the future without losing the best of the past. Modern Dells are inferior in practically every way.
Old but gold! Love your videos Andrew!
Keep utilising and restoring resorces 👍👍good job dude
Hi Andrew, can you do a video on cpu upgrades because I want to learn about upgrading CPU’s on old laptops
Sir, you are an artist.
This man is a mad man 👍
he enjoys his work.. any company in the world especially the government would like to hire him to work in their computers he probably . more but he's not showing.. I enjoy your video
You have very very good skills.
I probably should send my computers to him to fix I wonder where he lives what country you sound like it's German.??
Good luck and better wishes keep it up man you do very well
Hi Andrew, I love your videos and the methods you use to disassemble a laptop and build a PC, and I get really sad when I don't find any recent videos. You take too many days to make a video.......I know that you have to collect the laptop, it's parts to upgrade, and download games from steam.....you are my real inspiration. But please try to upload newer videos earlier if possible.............Love from Kolkata, India.
Andrew, thanks for your sharing. I love to watch your restoration video. For the broken monitor, how you find the new one? And how to know which monitor model is suitable? I am upgrading the old notebook just like you, but the notebook comes from friends and for free. I wondering how to upgrade the broken monitor or can I upgrade the 1366*768 monitor to 1920*1080 monitor. Looking forward to your reply. Thanks.
Great video by the way ❤️
Thank youu bro :D btw I'm your subscriber :D
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew i am yours too ☺️
Wow trick I know and cat and Andrew
Ive had a few of these laptops, they are tanks!
You can change a setting in DDU to turn off windows installer, also DDU has an option to boot into safe mode.
Update Dell Bios from the dell website. I had the same problem (with the same laptop) and after the latest update, everything works just fine ;-)
I've seen people say they "restore " but actually just buy new parts lol Nice job, on actually restoring this.
Thanks Mr Andrew. I like your videos. Keep going 💪🏽
This is really nice ... I like the way you cleaned Everything up. Well done
nice video. 10:15 case repairing like uncle arthur tussik 😁👌
U r awsome keep doing this don’t skip and plz upload videos every week at least cuz it’s so satisfying
Finally an update from my favorite channel
Love your channel and content. You deserve more subs than you have.
Wake up babe, new Cat and Andrew video.
I love your videos! can't stop watching
You're amazing!!!!! Love From India