Graphics Card upgrade for M6800 ?

Yeah... in 3 years, P5000M will be much cheaper.
AMD M5100 MXM card was over $200 when It first came out. Now it sells for only $30 on ebay.

 

The AMD M6100 mxm outperforms a gtx 860m and I have have seen them going for like 35 bucks on ebay. If someone wanted to set up a gaming PC on the cheap a precision M6600 or M6700 could be gotten along with the M6100 and run any modern game just fine........probably costing in the vicinity of $300.00 total .....

 

Well it looks (a lot) like the p5000 I bought had been rebaked....it has developed a black screen problem which is typical of solder joint cracks with Nvidia cards (In fact it is almost *always* the issue).
So right now my options are ........ rebake it again and get another 3- 12 months out of the card (this is a roll of the dice but it's free and if it fails I'm no worse off.) Get a gtx 980m or a m5000m . Hope to find another reasonable P5000. Give up and get a new laptop ..........

 

After extensive researche it looks like the P5000, even if it costs 900, is the best way financially to go. The RTX 2060 Q and the RTX 2070 Q (Which are the only ones you can really get for lees than 4000 in a laptop ) and rtx 2080 q are *slower* than the GTx 1070m due ri *really* cur down clock speeds.

 

Fwiw, I eventually gave up on my M6800/1070 combo. It was _just_ unstable enough to be irritating and the last straw was that I blew a VRM on the motherboard and it wouldn't boot with any MXM card after that. I replaced the MB and reverted back to my 980m, then decided to sell everything off and get a different laptop.

I went through a couple of supposedly refurbed laptops. I bought a Lenovo with a 2080 Q that went back because I received one with a 2070 Q. Then I picked up a Dell 7730 with a P4200, which went back because it had a bad fan. I finally settled on a Clevo with a full 2070.

But the moral of the story is that all of those were much faster than my 1070m.

Here's a comparison of my own Time Spy results for those laptops:

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/7615936/spy/7463892/spy/5987462/spy/6662346/spy/7268458

 

So, no M6700/M6800 configs out there with a (fully functional) Pascal card except for @DynamiteZerg at this point?
I'm sticking with M5000M and have given up any notion of another GPU upgrade. Saving up for a full refresh in 2021 (hello Precision 7760 / NVIDIA Ampere).

 

well my failure was due to (I'm convinced) an unscrupulous seller providing me with a baked card....it operated flawlessly until the black screens.....which I've seen time and time again in end of life Nvidia cards. That said.....I too have a toaster oven and I'll rebake again hoping it lasts long enough to save the the money for an Asus ROG Strix Scar II which is the only machine I've found that arrives complete as opposed to bare bones with the actual RTX 2070. I'd like to stick with Dell but all I'm seeing are Max Q cards in their products.

 

Wow... fingers crossed for my system then! I hope it holds out until I have saved enough for a replacement...

 

Well, ive officially read this entire thread looking for the solution for my dire problems. Heres a brief rundown,

GTX970M is fully functional, BUT im stuck on driver version 353.82 from over 2 years ago, and Gears of war 4 doesnt like anything below 400.xx Ive tried adding "%NVIDIA_DEV.13D8.05CD.1028% = Section0092, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D8&SUBSYS_05CD1028" to my nvdmi . inf file. on several drivers and none work. on the 352.62 version It failed before completing, and on 46x.xx it says its not compatible with my OS and doesnt find compatible card. If theres any more information that im going to realize i forgot to add the second you ask about it, Ill have it handy.

 

Well purists may cringe but once I was having trouble doing the INF mod for a GTX 965m in an HP 8740w in the NVBLI.inf. What worked for me was to add the card (in the proper format) to the very bottom section and then in that slightly different format to every single OS specific section of the inf. After that I disabled driver signing at at boot and the drivers installed properly. I can't recall the exact version number but it was above 400 ....... edit I went ahead and did an edit to the nvdmi.inf file. If i can successfully attach it it "should* load for you and will install your card as the Quadro M4000m (Basically the same card as yours) and yield the same performance ..... you can download the file here

This machine (If they ever get it back in stock, they claim it will be in three weeks) looks awfully good. TRACER III 17R XTREME. The P5000 is working fine again after a date with my toaster oven, but I realize I am on borrowed time with it.