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.
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.
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'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. :)
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
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.
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!
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 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.
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 !
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
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
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 ♥️♥️
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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!
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
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 👍👍👍
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.
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I still have my m6600 however the gpu died again, I bought a replacement 3000m gpu a few years ago and all was well for sometime. I had the same issue with the precision m90 where the gpu died after a few years and I had to replace it. I passed that system down to my dad when I moved up to the m6600 and the gpu in that m90 still works like a charm. When I bought the m6600 I upgraded the ram to 32gigs, removed the cd and dropped in an extra hard drive. I plan to get myself another second hand gpu, I will try the 5010m this time since it has an additional 2 gigs of vram.
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
Hello Andrew! Nice video as always. What about a general video about how to change cpu in laptop (get to know which socket und which cpu is running) and finally the mechanical part. Would be very helpful!!! 😁
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 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.
Great restoration, those M6600s and other older Dell Precisions are still sought after because of how modular and upgradable they are. I'm sure this is the 3rd Dell Precision you have upgraded. Only thing I'd have done differently is maxed out the RAM (you can never have too much RAM - especially when you can get 8GB modules quite cheaply) and maxed out the storage (by adding a second SSD or HDD).
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.
It looks amazing after your refurb! On the video drivers, couldn't you just use device manager and roll back the drivers? I've found that to work for me on these older Dells with Windows 10 unsupported
Hi, I really Like your videos. Could you help me with Dell N5010 upgrade ? Can you recommend CPU for N5010 & Let me know whether I can keep HDD as Data disk and Install OS in SSD or not ?
“96% isopropyl alcohol.” 💙
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"96% missing driver on Windows."💙
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@@fldrsilikaun 😂
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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
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
2960XM and Quadro 4000M
That's still good even by today, almost 10 years later.
Great job again!
0% nudity
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96% isopropyl alcohol ❤❤
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What about the rest 4%?
4% cat *meow*
where's the 4 percent?
0+0+96 is not 100
This guy has his own factory of isopropyl alcohol😂😂
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He took their entire stock
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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
Glad to see you, while maintaining authenticity without any mods just like usual.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Hey Andrew! I love your videos. But just one thing: could you please start adding CHAPTER MARKERS? That'd be really cool 😊
I love these Dell Precision laptops. I have a M4800, and I love that all components are replaceable and upgradeable.
Love how he makes dead trash computers going to graveyard And gives them new life and better one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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
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'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. :)
This was a Sponge Bob processor, how come you didnt heard of that? 😂
That's the new Core Aye! SpongeBob inside 🤣
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
Thanks Andrew for this video. More and more I learn about upgrading laptops. You are a very good teacher. Kind regards from Bogotá, Colombia
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.
HUGE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND LOVE TO TECHNOLOGY.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND HOW YOU TREAT GADGETS.
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
Great restoration again man.
As always clean and perfect.
This machine is the perfect one for daily tasks.
It's always satisfying to watch your videos, Andrew! Keep goind with the excellent job!
although confused, but always amazed by his work. Good job, man. I like
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!
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 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 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.
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 !
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.
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
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
Watching the polishing process is satisfying
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.
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
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.
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.
you never cease to amaze, you continue to inspire to restore computer and lessen e-waste
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
im simply speechless, totally love your work
Thank you so much 😀
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
You could've upgraded to an M Sata SSD. There's a specific slot for it. Great video!
Hi Andrew, can you do a video on cpu upgrades because I want to learn about upgrading CPU’s on old laptops
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.
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.
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
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
this video reminds me how much I miss my old Dell E6440.
Whether you read this message or not, you are my hero. Very inspirational
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.
Old but gold! Love your videos Andrew!
The Build quality of these old laptops are next level, Shame they don't make them like that anymore.
You inspired me to help my friend upgrade and restore my friends laptop and mine. This help me to face online class. Thumbs up👍
Finally!! This would be my personal best at being so early to a video🔥
Keep utilising and restoring resorces 👍👍good job dude
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.
You’re the reason why I worked on laptop especially dell and Lenovo laptop because it’s fun to work with.
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
Love your channel and content. You deserve more subs than you have.
U r awsome keep doing this don’t skip and plz upload videos every week at least cuz it’s so satisfying
That is taking refurbishing to another level!! Beautiful work.
Great Video! I've refurbished M6600 myself in the past but nothing this extreme. Great Job!
You are just awesome, better technician then me, I would never venture to do such a extensive laptop repairs. Good Work.
The music is really soothing
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 👍👍👍
Loved the way he pronunce his name An-dru😁
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!
Thanks Mr Andrew. I like your videos. Keep going 💪🏽
Im Hoping you upload more like this videos as soon as possible because i like the way you inspire people to resurrect laptops
Worked on many of these in my days, well built units.
Shadow of the "thumb" raider :)))
You can't ever unsee it!!
waiting for your video.
today check your channel for new video.
love from Bangladesh❤❤
please try to customize external body, I mean (changing color, apply some cool design)
Great job 🌞! But why no upgrade of the wifi card 🥺, which may have given you Bluetooth as well?
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 ;-)
This is really nice ... I like the way you cleaned Everything up. Well done
Very satisfying video. I loved it!!
I'm glad you were able to fix your laptop I hope you left him negative feedback
Great restore Andrew as usual!
I still have my m6600 however the gpu died again, I bought a replacement 3000m gpu a few years ago and all was well for sometime. I had the same issue with the precision m90 where the gpu died after a few years and I had to replace it. I passed that system down to my dad when I moved up to the m6600 and the gpu in that m90 still works like a charm. When I bought the m6600 I upgraded the ram to 32gigs, removed the cd and dropped in an extra hard drive. I plan to get myself another second hand gpu, I will try the 5010m this time since it has an additional 2 gigs of vram.
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
Can we replace Intel celeron processor to direct i7 is it possible 🤔 anyway it's just a question but I loved all you work 😍😁
He used the celeron just for testing purposes, seen the heatpipes that laptop probably had an high end cpu at the origin.
@@fporcelli2009 ok I thought the laptop comes with celeron..thanks for clearing my query😀
Hello Andrew! Nice video as always. What about a general video about how to change cpu in laptop (get to know which socket und which cpu is running) and finally the mechanical part. Would be very helpful!!! 😁
one of the best video on the internet
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 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 have these notebooks. I upgraded to a AMD R9 M290X 4GB (HD8970M) and it works great.
Great restoration, those M6600s and other older Dell Precisions are still sought after because of how modular and upgradable they are. I'm sure this is the 3rd Dell Precision you have upgraded.
Only thing I'd have done differently is maxed out the RAM (you can never have too much RAM - especially when you can get 8GB modules quite cheaply) and maxed out the storage (by adding a second SSD or HDD).
I love your videos! can't stop watching
Great video Andrew
Thank you for an amazing video as always! and it's so satisfying to see that GPU being nice and shiny :D
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.
It looks amazing after your refurb! On the video drivers, couldn't you just use device manager and roll back the drivers? I've found that to work for me on these older Dells with Windows 10 unsupported
Hi, I really Like your videos. Could you help me with Dell N5010 upgrade ? Can you recommend CPU for N5010 & Let me know whether I can keep HDD as Data disk and Install OS in SSD or not ?
Another perfect one! Well done Bro! :)
bro are you here !!!!
@@benjaminandradeosses5209 Big fan of Andrew! :)
Yeah thanks
I was waiting for your video from 1 month