Dell Precision M6700, NVIDIA Quadro P5000 GPU upgrade

Thanks, it worked, I tought I just have to replace one entry.
For the vbios I flashed this one using CH341A with 1.8v adapter (much less expensive than buying a M6800) :
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...o-p5200m-and-gtx-1070m-on-m6700.827595/page-4
(thanks a lot @RMSMajestic )
The thing is the card run at a very low frequency (1250MHz) and it is locked, it seems to be a max-q variant, what is the best way to ask prema a modded vbios ? in a thread or by pm ?
For now I have no BSOD related to the GPU

The card was "stolen" from this listing (I got a 50GBP discount) :
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/Nvidia-Quad...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

 

Also you absolutely need to do this in order to have the GPU working (with optimus) :
https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/manage-graphics-performance-per-app-windows-10/

 

Eh, if it is locked at that frequency, it is less interesting to me. I just looked at the specs, and P4000 has 1792 CUDA cores vs M5000M's 1536, but my M5000M is also able to hit around 1.2 GHz. So, P4000 (locked) would not be that much faster than my M5000M, I think. (Currently pretty set on replacing this system with something brand new in about two years anyway... It's getting to the point where I think I'll just wait it out.)

I am under the understanding that modded vBIOS's for Pascal cards (and newer) are not a thing. Nearly all cards have a check in place that will reject non-signed vBIOS'es. This means that you can flash signed vBIOS'es taken from other cards, but you cannot modify them because that will break the signature (causing the card to not boot). This restriction is newly added with Pascal. Maybe there is some trick to get around this that has been discovered... I haven't looked around that much.

There are also options in the NVIDIA control panel to do per-app GPU selection, which is the way that I have been doing it, seems to work fine (with K5000M, M5000M, and P5000). By default the NVIDIA driver will automatically take over rendering for certain apps/games (seems like they have a list of common apps included in the driver) but you will need to manually set it for some less-common apps.

 

Is your old quadro P5000 can be overclocked ?

Maybe there is something with my windows installation, my GTX970M couldn't be overclocked (even no boost) except with auto-updated drivers from 2015 installed by windows

 

When I had the P5000 it would run higher than the boost clock, hitting over 1.6 GHz with GPU-Z showing that it was power-throttling (maybe undervolting would allow it to run even faster). I didn't use any overclocking tool to push the frequency up that high, it's just what the card wanted to do.

 

My first issue so far is the crazy contrast when I woke the computer (was in standy). Yesterday I let the computer run for about 45min on furmark with no issue and the gpu below 65°c with a pretty silent cooling

 

For exemple here is a run of superposition benchmark, with the card at 1250MHz, maximum power consumption reported is 65w, so there is a huge improvment when comparing with your M5000M for a very small power consumption.
I'm trying to unlock overclocking and I think that at 1550+MHz the card will be on the same level as the P5000.


edit : I still have some trouble (like on 3dmark) to run the load on the P4000 because there is a launcher and the real "benchmark" is not the same .exe, maybe it's time to get an eDP lcd in order to disable optimus

 

You can run the 3dMark benchmarks... You just need to find the actual benchmark EXE and enable the dGPU for that. Run it in window mode and you can easily identify it in Task Manager.

 

So I tried another OS (windows 7) and the frequency is still locked, I attached the FireStrike result

 

Yeah it's slower but look at the crazy efficiency, I'm trying to find someone that can unlock the vbios
And for the price I get it, it's like 50€/£/$ from a GTX980M and 100€/£/$ from a GTX970M, I guess you could sell the M5000M for around 300€/£/$ and buy this P4000 for nothing.
Sadly the seller does not have any P4000 left