Dell 6700 - GPU and CPU Upgrade

Hello Forum!
I need your knowledge and your expertise.
I‘m owner of a Dell 6700 with AMD FirePro M6000 graphics card.

I want to upgrade CPU and GPU.
GPU:
The easiest way to upgrade the GPU is to buy a Nvidia K5000M - correct?
What i also need is a Heatsink for NVIDIA - correct?

Additional adaptions not necessary (like BIOS upgrade or whatever).
M6700 —> Upgrade to K5000M is plug and play, or?

GPU 2:
If I want to upgrade to GTX980M - a new Heatsink is also necessary and what else?
M6700 —> Upgrade to GTX980M — isn‘t plug and play. Bios adaptions necessary?
Summary: It isn‘t easy to install this, many issues possible, not plug and play, there are some problems with this configuration?!

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CPU:
Current System = i7-3720QM
Upgrade to 3940XM is possible —> plug and play, or?

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Did anybody bought at Ali*****s a CPU or GPU?

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,
Chris

 

If you have an AMD GPU, you will need to purchase the NVIDIA version of the GPU heatsink, whether you get K5000M or 980M.
K5000M is plug-and-play (with the heatsink). 980M will require modification of the NVIDIA driver INF file.
Upgrading to 3940XM should be fine. There is a two-heatpipe version of the CPU heatsink that you should look into. It is intended to be used with the XM CPUs.
Of course, clean off old thermal paste and apply new paste when you swap out these parts.

 

Hello!

Thank you for your answer.

1. Is there online a list available, where i can see all spareparts?
2. My problem is, i don't know the GPU heatsink and CPU heatsink number....

3. And for GTX980M - the only thing what i have to do is to adapt the INF file? Nothing more like flash the BIOS or something else?

4. Is it allowed to add in the post a link to an online webshop to share with you what i want to buy?
Br, Chris

 

1. I don’t know if such a list.
3. That is correct. You don’t need to mess with the BIOS or vBIOS.
4. Yes, you can post a link to a shop for something that you are considering to buy, just don’t try to sell your own stuff without going through the marketplace forum.

 

Hello!
Thank you for your answer.

Link to a webshop:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32829109794.html?spm=a2g0x.search0104.3.1.5f5249e1gVnJk0&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0%2Csearchweb201602_2_10065_10068_10547_319_317_10548_10696_10084_453_10083_454_10618_10304_10307_10820_10821_537_10302_536_10843_10059_10884_10887_321_322_10103%2Csearchweb201603_52%2CppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=2160f412-f18b-42dd-9ec7-d4e5e3d50670-0&algo_pvid=2160f412-f18b-42dd-9ec7-d4e5e3d50670
Does anybody have experience with Aliexpress and Computer hardware or CPUs?

Br, Chris

 

Hello!
As Aaron44126 mentioned - for the biggest CPU I7-3940XM is it neceassary to use a heatsink with two heatpipes.
I checked via Dell tool my hardware and i figured out, that i already have a heatsink which is called CRYV5.
https://images.app.goo.gl/SJXYMducg76v7rrSA
What i know is, that this heatsink can handle CPUs up to 65Watts.

Is my information correct?

Br, Chris

 

That is the "better" version of the CPU heatsink, correct. If you want to confirm then you can just pop the keyboard out. There is a cutout in the plastic below that allows you to see the CPU heatsink heatpipes so you can see if there are one or two.

 

I did some pictures....and i think the two heatpipes in the middle are from the CPU heatsink, or?

 

Yes, that right in the middle is the CPU heatsink, you have the two-heatpipe version which is good.