Dell Precision M4800 - Can GPU be upgraded?

OK so how do you put a MXM-B Card (length 105mm) into a MXM-A slot (length 70mm) ?

Quote from Wikipedia:

MXM Type Width Length
MXM-A 82mm 70mm
MXM-B 82mm 105mm

 

You can't. The GTX965 is available in both type B and type A form factors, so it can potentially be used in the M4800.

 

Whoops - as you point out, I had it backwards. As I said, you can fit the smaller form factor into a mobo that fits the larger form.

Sorry for the confusion/mistake.

 

Depending on what's in the way of fitting an mxm-b card you might be able to remove obstructions

 

It's not just the obstructions. You will need a heatsink that covers the entire card and that will be more difficult to fit in than just the larger card.

 

Some on HPs have continued to use the original heatsink and just added extra cooling.

I plan on taking it a step further by replacing the stock heatsink mount with an mxm-b mount soldering that onto the stock heatpipe and adding additional heatpipes to link that mount to heatsink/s and fan stored in the dvd drive slot. I have almost all of the parts already

I can't say that the same thing can be done on this dell but I thought I would put the idea out there

 

Is HDMI port work properly? Is m2000m working with optimus disabled?

 

Is there any update on this? I would like to see if this setup works!

 

Well, I replaced K2100M with M2000M in my M4800. I have modified inf file, restarted with driver signature disabled. Driver installation goes on but fails in the end. If I go to Device Manager and do manual driver update from the folder then I got failed with "Code 28". Tried 362.13 and 377.48 nVidia drivers. Stuck here so far ((

 

Hi, I also consider buying M2000M for my Dell M4800. Currently I have K2100m card. I have a question if it is possible to install unmodified drivers for Quadro for M2000M (after physical installation of M200M) ? Will it work without modification? For example I use Win 8.1/x64 and available Quadro driver is 382.05 (R381 U2) - for M2000M on nVidia's website.