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Issues with msata slots are pretty much nonexistent so far in my experience, the only gripe is the cost of 2TB but beyond that no physical issues. When there is a lack of msata there is the option of pci-e to nvme however most slots out there are limited to 2242 due to the physical length of the space provided while others no space at all and I've been having trouble with extender cables lately.

Well finally bothered with installing the HP version of the Quadro RTX 3000 and it well well thus far aside from having hell with modding the heatsink between the offset core (news to no one) as well the coils blocking the heatsink. Would have preferred to have an cnc machine as more precise work would have been nice but without having much for tools didn't help. I made no change at all with the fin stack and there is a little room for the heatsink to be slightly offset without causing any real issues with the rest of the machine. Should anyone bother with installing this particular card it would be prudent to have a spare heatsink as it is surprisingly fragile.

The power requirements are pretty much at the limit but having already used an WX7100 with the M6700 being a 150w card I don't see this being an issue upfront so it should work however the real problem is the coils blocking the heatsink.

I would love to have one of those along with a good pcb printer with a pick an place machine to make my own mxm cards but oh well. There is a little bit of the lower body that has to be trimmed where the two heatsinks meet for alignment but only requires some pliers to break off. Other than not having an hot air station I only got one of these cards and having to decide between two machines which is to get this upgrade. The other machine is an top spec 7510 and I would have to remove the ethernet port along with a small header on the board then mod the heatsink however boards for this model aren't as disposable as the 4800 should something go wrong.

I have the card on hand and it will fit however it does require some real effort though the display cable isn't going to be a problem aside from removing the clip. What will suck ass is having to remove one of the rear ports and heavily modding the heatsink.

It will work but you will quickly realize that it is a furnace, the 2860qm is the same chip at stock just 10w less and noticeably cooler however overclocking that is limited to just tinkering with the turbo. I don't remember what the vrm limits are but pretty sure its the same as the M6600 just with a lot less cooling.

I didn't do extensive testing as the temps were not great at stock but would have expected at least 3.2 give or take.

Options are limited beyond the M2200M and they're fairly expensive while requiring some modding. The Quadro T1000 and T2000 are known to work including the HP versions but the heatsink is lacking. I do believe that it is possible to get an RTX 3000 from HP for the Z2 Mini however this is an 80w card and you'll have to mod the heatsink as well desolder one of the rear ports as the card is much wider normal.

Installed a 4TB Kioxia nvme drive (KXG70PN84T09) and it worked without issue. After a few hours of use I have to say the temps are noticeably better at idle than the kbg40znv1t02 (1TB) drive it replaced while at load it was a few degrees higher overall.

Don't remember temps as much beyond that they were not satisfactory though something like honeywell ptm7950 would help. As for the program Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and for the version I got installed is 4.2.0.8 for compatibility reasons.

With an program yes but thermal performance isn't great but regardless Dell sold loads of M4600s with this cpu and got one myself.

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.