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Dell M6600. 4000M to GTX 680M Upgrade

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by Extremal, Aug 27, 2012.

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  1. ninja2000

    ninja2000 Mash IT

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    I am the 670m owner :) optimus works fine still, temps and fan profiles are also the same as the quadro 3000 it replaced.
    As soon as the 680m price is more sensible I will upgrade from the 670m
     
    ninja2000, Sep 14, 2012
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    TMastPrecision Notebook Guru

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    I'm thinkin about swapping my M8900 fire pro with a 670m or 675m so I can have optimus. The M8900 does not have any memory chips on the bottom side. I know the Nvidia cards do. My question is: Does the 4000m or any of the other nvidia cards have thermal pads or something for those bottom side mem chips that face the mobo? or are they just open to the air?
     
    TMastPrecision, Sep 16, 2012
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  3. Extremal

    Extremal Notebook Guru

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    A PROBLEM HAS OCCURED

    I've installed a gtx680m but system does not recognize it. However in Bios i see that it has 4gb of vram but it says that "unknown video card"
     
    Extremal, Sep 17, 2012
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    Wild guess: 680m is Kepler, the 670m is Fermi.
     
    tijo, Sep 17, 2012
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    iieeann Notebook Evangelist

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    omg... i just ordered a 680m last week, supposed to received in this few days. The system refuses to work or just the GPU is not recognized in the bios?

    Are you moving from AMD -> nvidia or nvidia -> nvidia?
     
    iieeann, Sep 18, 2012
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    what brand of 680M card did you guys use: Dell or Clevo?
     
    Red Line, Sep 18, 2012
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  7. Extremal

    Extremal Notebook Guru

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    No, i had quadro 4000m installed
    So i cant use Kepler cards? I have an MXM 3.0b
    Dunno but definitely not dell.
     
    Extremal, Sep 18, 2012
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    iieeann Notebook Evangelist

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    Is it a engineering sample or released card?

    the system can't work at all or just not recognized in bios only?

    I hope it is not kepler/fermi issue, anyway i am doing this on M6700 with M6000, so by end of month only can tell. M6700 just placed order before this reply.
     
    iieeann, Sep 18, 2012
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  9. Extremal

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    Yes, its released card
    The system works and loading fine. Its also see the total amount of video memory in bios(4gb) and the chipmaker (nvidia) in dxdiag.
     
    Extremal, Sep 18, 2012
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    That is a good news. I just hope the heatsinks are the same for AMD/NVIDIA, i have x-bracket for 680m.
     
    iieeann, Sep 18, 2012
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