Dell M6600. 4000M to GTX 680M Upgrade

- Anyone knows 680m Dell P/No?

- How do you state the difference between a clevo/msi/dell and an ES?

 

I'll answer myself to the 2nd Q: it seems ES have "QUAL SAMPLE" on the GPU (like this one: http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com...ia-GTX680M-in-Famous-GT70-Gaming-Notebook.jpg).
You'll be able to state Subvendor ID (correct me if I'm wrong) only with GPU-Z.

Also, Dell ones seem to have 2G Hynix GDDR5.

Now my 2nd question becomes:
- will you be able to use Dell 680m without any driver mods?

 

Guys what should i do, to make my card work?)

 

This is normal... The BIOS won't identify cards that don't ordinarily ship with the system. If Windows still boots and you can install the driver and everything else is working, don't worry about it.

 

When you said it wasn't working, i thought you meant that it didn't go into Windows. You can forget what i said about Kepler and Fermi obviously.

As Aaron said, if everything is working.

 

Yes, but i cannot install drivers - theres no GTX 680M in my device list. And nvidia drivers say that there is no nvidia card

And my card is Clevo

 

If i remember correctly, Clevo cards don't play too nice with Alienwares either, you could look into whether flashing the Dell 680m vbios is possible on the Clevo card, it was for the 6970m, but things change. You could try forcing the drivers to install through the device manage. The driver installer probably unpacked in C:\NVIDIA and the .inf file is there somewhere.

In any case, i would do a quick check of the m17x and m18x Alienware forums to see if anyone experienced the same problems as you.

 

Yes, ive checked and found this one - could anyone please download it for me? I do not have enough privileges [MOBILE] nVidia Geforce 306.23 WHQL + Clevo 680M modded INF for M18x-R1 attached

But i'm still feeling strange because it shows my gtx 680m as standard vga adapter

 

That's normal Windows behavior — that's what shows when it has loaded the "generic" drivers for your card (because no specific drivers are installed).

The link you posted looks promising but I don't have permission to download the file either.

 

Yeap, the same)
800 bucks card and cannot get drivers due to 5 posts