Graphics Card upgrade for M6800 ?

Hello everyone, I sold my trusty m15x and bought an m6800, when selling my m6100 I noticed that there is a 1060 locally for cheap but I don't know it will work. If it can be of any help it's out of a santech g49 and it looks like

now I am comfortable with a little modding like soldering but would it work?

 

The 1060 won't work........... the Quadro P5000 can be made to work (I just mine back after reballing and life is good) but has, at best, a 50% success rate..............the M5000m looks to me to be a great performer and it will work every time......

 

980M performs the same as M5000M (or just a tad better), unless you specifically need the Quadro features for something, and it is cheaper.

There is a BIOS/vBIOS issue that prevents any Pascal cards from working, except P4000 and P5000, which will work if you flash specific vBIOS images on them. (Theoretically other Pascal cards could work with an appropriate vBIOS but no one has found one.)

 

btw Aaron do you mind telling me what inf mods you use to make the M5000m work in optimus on your machine? I don't fully trust the reballing of my P5000 and I have an M5000m on hand (From another project that isn't going well) so that might well be handy info to have indeed ......... I know how to do the mods to make one work solo....but not Optimus

Edit I did a search and found your post about all this so it appears optimus wont work after all......so lets hope my nervous fears are mislaid

 

Optimus works fine, I had it working with both the M5000M and P5000. I have Optimus on right now and I was gaming last night. I did have trouble getting it to work initially. You might have found one of my old posts.

In this post I describe my INF mod. It is only one find/replace.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...0-owners-thread.820539/page-254#post-10937563

 

Thanks. With the run of bad luck I've been having it seems to me the more info (and spare parts ) I have.... the better ......

 

Do other oses like linux work with the pascal cards (gtx 1060, 1070 and 1080)?
Would coreboot solve the issue?

 

I seem to remember a 1070 worked fine in linux .......The guy was using Windows in a VM ,........

Here it is ... If that solution meets your needs go for it....

Edit I should point out ..... Even modest overclocks on a 980m give you 1060-esque numbers ......

 

Precision M6800 = Pascal cards work fine in Linux without mucking with the vBIOS. (Confirmed by users in this thread with both GeForce 1070 and Quadro P5000.) The issue is only with Windows. I don't think anyone makes a GeForce 1080 that is standard MXM size?
(Do note that you will need the eDP version of the M6800. Pascal cards do not support LVDS.)

Precision M6700 = Pascal cards do not work at all unless you have a working vBIOS for them and get them flashed on a different machine (or with a hardware flasher).

 

Maybe on an M6700, but coreboot doesn't support haswell that I know of...