M4700 Owners Thread

Also forgot to ask wether the heat sink originally fitted with the k1000m would suffice?

And from reading I note my cpu is of the lower spectrum, so wandering if that would limit the 2200m gpu in anyway.

cheers

 

Not sure about the heatsink. I think it would be fine. Find some pictures of the two cards to compare... There was trouble with Kepler to Maxwell upgrades in the M6800 because the VRMs are in different positions, for example.

Regarding the CPU, that totally depends on the CPU/GPU load incurred by the game which varies by title. You can easily swap in a new CPU as well, though... They were still socketed back then.

 

Hey everyone. I just got my M4700 a couple months back, a slight upgrade to the M4600 I'd had before (both rescued from the garbage at my former employer, basically).

My main question should be simple enough I think. I've got the crappy ol' 1366x768 display. The other day I was able to get my hands on a junk M4600 which just happened to have the 1080p display. Thinking this would be a simple swap, I tore into it this morning but when I plugged the 1080p panel in, the backlight comes on but nothing is seen on the display. I did remember that the M4600's display cable looked different than mine, but I had chalked it up initially to being a 4600 vs 4700 thing since the two panels have the same 40-pin connection. I don't have the donor 4600 at my disposal currently unfortunately or I'd just try it and see, but before I go to the trouble of hunting it back down, does this sound correct so far, that I would need the alternate cable? And my other question is, assuming I do, does the 4600 have the same motherboard connection type as the 4700?

Here's the info on my two panels, if it helps. The 4700's original 1366x768 panel is Dell P/N 0GC4HY and is a Samsung LTN156AT24 (or maybe 23, I don't have it handy). My proposed replacement 1080 panel is Dell P/N 0JHNX6 and is a Samsung LTN156HT01.

And one more, I've got the FirePro M4000 in this and it does what I need it to really, but what's the easiest upgrade option without getting a new heatsink and all that? And is it even a big enough difference to justify the hassle? If it matters, I've got the i7-3840QM in this machine.

Thanks in advance

 

Well, I got impatient and answered my own question in regards to that

 

Just a data pointed managed to upgrade the K1000m with the M2200. Currently appears to be Working well.
Slight issues; cannot disable optimus and will boot on black screen so have had to reset bios. Anybody here any issues similar?

Cheers,

 

If I'm not mistaken, M2200 is only compatible with eDP screens, so you'll have to leave optimus on if you have a LVDs screen (which was the common on M4700 builds).

 

M2200 is Maxwell so it's compatible with LVDS and eDP, only Pascal card like 1050Ti/quadro equivalent mxm support only eDP

 

another question! noticed the Vrams are larger on the M2200 then the K1000m so looking for replacements for the Thermal pads (not in a great condition regardless) any examples or ideas of which pads to use, ordered the artic 1mm and they are way too thin. I have also ordered 1.5mm so will see how that goes when I receive them.

 

sorry about the smiley.

chrome wouldn't let me type anything

I have an m4700 with a k1000m

I'm looking to upgrade.

So far I've seen the following cards

firepro
m5100
m4000

nvidia
k2000m
quadro 2000m

I'm worried about tdp. The m5100 is for the m6700 which uses a beefier gpu heatsink. Does anyone know if I can buy the heatsink and if it will fit in an m4700? Else I'm going with the m4000

 

M4700 uses MXM 3.0a and M6700 uses MXM 3.0b. You cannot install MXM 3.0b cards in the M4700.