M6600 - Should I Swap Nvidia 4000M with AMD 6990M?

Hello,

I have AMD 6990M card that I can use for the M6600. Now When I get maximum overclock, the performance of 4000M becomes the same as 6990M. But less stable in the long run of course. And the 6990M has 20% overclockability as well.

I do not do any CAD specific work. I do editing, but just adobe, video, and audio work. So I will not be benefitting from the unique quadro drivers.

Also the raw power of 6990M sounds very tempting.

Has anyone tried to swap in a consumer grade gpu into any precisions? I am not sure if the bios will support. Last thing I want is to repaste the whole thing over again..

Thanks for your reply in advance!

 

Guessing that your Alienware has a pair of AMD 6990M video cards and you want to swap one into the M6600 for fun?

 

Let me know what you want for the 4000M card. I'd like to have a spare lying around

 

haha yeah I want to see what can happen. I like the reliability of nvidia but 6990 has the raw power. I will check it out and let you know!

But do we know if there is any restriction in the bios?

 

I would go for the real longshot. Put the 4000M in your Alienware to be used as your Physx processor alongside your other AMD 6990M

Actually I would not do that. I would worry about something blowing up.

 

I'd love to know if this works. Personally I would swap it

Edit: If it doesn't recognize it you could always try and flash it to an M8900. You would still have the benefit of all the extra power, it would just see it as an M8900.

 

I wonder if you could get two 4000M's working in an Alienware MX18 in SLI mode?

Talk about a rendering beast.

THAT would be cool to see work.

 

Yes.

I "swapped" a 580m in place of my m8900. The only problems I encountered was the bracket on the back of the card that the heat sink screws into is different for nvida and amd cards. It's not as big of a problem for nvida->amd as it is for amd->nvidia.

Also when I had the 580m installed, my cpu was throttled down by about 50% and the battery was constantly draining while running benchmarks. (The bios update for the 5010 may have corrected this but I haven't checked.)

 

Thank you for the reply. So I guess the bios does not fully suppport these high end cards yet? Cause the psu is really more than enough.. Do you know if 580M still works?

jmthomas: I have seen pics about 4000M dell cards used for M6600. Unfortunately, the card does not have the physical sli cable adaptor thing, hence cannot connect the two with sli cable. I dont know if any nvidia driver supports dual professional cards and no OEM offers it.

 

Well, a person can't help wishing, right?

I am seriously looking at getting either a Lenovo M-520 or a Dell M6600 for CAD work + some RTS and FPS gaming.

Just haven't decided what video card I want.