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Not sure why that was the case with that one user but anyway for the two that I got they both work as expected ie at the full 150w during normal load. As for the rest I've never used those ports. By the way just a quick question are you using the stock x bracket?

The TDP goes up to 150w with the two copies that I have and no performance issues in that regard. As for the pads I just use what I can salvage though I am careful but have mainly been using the stock pads for the vram. For the VRM I've been using some generic crap bought off eBay for the top side while reusing the one large pad including with M6800s that had a stock Quadro which does the job pretty well so no crazy temps.

Yes but for regular gaming I do prefer to run the fans manually given how rare this card is and want it to last. I looked up the smbios mine has and it is version 2.7 Not sure how to flash the card with your current machine having this issue and the last time I flashed a gpu was way back in the early 2010s.

Well here is the vbios from mine, it was in an M6700 for good part of a year then later for a year and change in my current M6800 both of which are in daily use. Not sure what to post about my M6800 though. Ellesmere.rom

The AMD heatsink is the only one that works with this card and the nvidia heatsink doesn't work at all due to there not being any contact with the gpu. From what you've posted it has to be the thermalpads not being placed correctly resulting in poor contact.

The only time where I had anything like this at all happen is when I forgot the thermal compound on a cpu so try it again to be sure that it wasn't an contact issue between the gpu and the heatsink. If that doesn't work try the card in another machine if that is available if all else return the card.

Fitting a 2280 isn't hard though requires a complete teardown and do some metal work but beyond that it works pretty well. Will need to tuck the cmos battery and will want some thermal pads to help with cooling.

Good luck as finding nicer panels that aren't 40 pin EDP are a real challenge and if yours is an LVDS then your options are likely even more limited. The EDP version of the M6800 is 30 pin only and from what I've seen online adapting 40 pin has mixed results with some releasing the forbidden smoke.

I think it is due to the number of nand modules as it 8 and and is double sided. I've seen the issue turn up once before with Linus reviewed one of the 8TB models which didn't work in a much newer Asus laptop but beyond that no issue at all in the 7710. Still I am the only one who has done an 2280 in the M6800 thus far without sacrificing the mxm.

Just gave one of those 2280 2TB Sabrent drives a try and no dice though it worked without issue in the 7710.

Got the E3-1575m in my 7710 though this is after a board swap and yes the extra cache does make a difference in games.

Interesting it didn't work in two laptops but still not bad compatibility wise. I'll keep this in mind if more copies find their way to market someday.

Yea back when this available on eBay years back it didn't take long at all to figure that the T440p just wasn't a viable platform though the M6800 wasn't exactly cheap back then so I didn't buy one. I did manage to collect a couple examples of the Xeon 1575m V5 (7510 and 7710) and was pretty happy with the results but looked back and had to wonder what I may have missed out on other than worse thermals.

I have to wonder if anyone has given one of those rare converted i7 4980HQ a try with this machine and how were the thermals like. Also is there is a reliable source as I am interested in at least collecting one.

That is very strange, I've used this in both the M6700 and M6800 without that issue however the driver acts up once in a while beyond that it is well behaved. I got a another in an 7710 as well and no issue there. For the m6800 and 7710 I do have it where the IGP is active for non gaming tasks. If your M6800 has an edp screen you can disable the IGP if needed as for thermals you can use hwinfo 64 and manually set the fans if needed.

Dell WX7100 mxm as it is drop in and just works without much of a fuss.

If anyone is wondering Starfield is playable on the M6800 with fairly reasonable settings at 1080p with 100% up scaling using FSR2.

Just finish the mod and it worked well thus far but fair warning it is a tight fit as the adapter adds some height. I strongly recommend doing a full disassembly as magnesium makes a lot of dust as I just learned while grinding away also wear an n95 dust mask. At least the bottom panel doubles as a heatsink. Will take another look at my other Precision laptops but pretty sure they're limited to just 30 and 42mm drives and to get an 80mm drive in the M6800 I had to grind away at the bottom pan close to the dock connector leaving an small hole but otherwise it works. Did have to shorten the adapter as it wouldn't fit otherwise. Edit: I got out an M4800 and all you'll get is a single 30mm nvme drive, to get it installed you'll be left with a small hole but beyond that any metal work should only be done with the board along with everything else removed as magnesium dust will cause shorts. The other slot is the usual msata wwan slot and haven't bothered with the slot used for the wifi card.

The mini pcie slots are good for 2230 and 2242 nvme drives as extra storage but yea the lack of usb comes no surprise because it is pcie after all. Going to mod an m6800 sometime next week to accept an 2280 drive though I have to do a fair bit of metal work. For the M4800 you get a 42mm slot with ease while there is another slot however there isn't much room to work with

I am not likely to give coreboot a try at least not for a long while but anyway the gpu not only works well it is well behaved and is essentially a RX580 with 8gb of downclocked vram. Going on vacation next week (thank God) and going to see if I can mod the body so I can use an 80mm nvme drive via an adapter.

I used the nvidia heatsink with my M5000M and had to perform the mod, you'll grind a fair bit of that off otherwise it won't seat correctly due to one of the inductors being blocked by that bit of copper. I had to grind all the way into the aluminum.

When I installed my M5000M into my spare M6800 I had to grind part of the heatsink with a dremel due to one of the inductors being blocked beyond that it fitted fine afterwards. As for the drivers admittedly have taken care of partly due to having a six day work week and mental fatigue.

If you go with AMD then you'll need the heatsink as I've already tried that and the nvidia heatsink doesn't seat correctly on AMD cards.

For my daily I've been using the WX7100 and it holds up very well but I haven't kept up with the latest titles with the exception to Hogwarts legacy. I'd say the wx7100 which is a good part of two thirds faster than the M5000M and likewise the W7170m/SX7100 so it would be around the performance if I had to guess that of a P4000 mobile give or take 5-10%. I did go looking through my bookmarks for a link to a google drive where someone had some fixed roms for the Pascal generation but it was deleted.