SuperMG3

Hello. The Quadro K3000M arrived but... It's not the K3000M. It was the K3100M instead. Not compatible as it's a newer Kepler card... The listing was for a K3000M 2GB. I'm so unlucky. 3rd GPU that's not working in a row!

Bruh. I bought dual PSUs for nothing then and Quadro k3000m 75W... Didn't test them yet

Hello, thanks for commenting. What TDP max is your RTX 5000? Did you try AMD for the first slot? Any PSU upgrades or vBIOS mods to the target TDP? I still haven't try with AMD HD 6XXX and Quadro K3000M as master cards yet...

@sliderfra @Clamibot Hello, sorry to disturb you. Do you know how to get 100W average for my case?

Hello. I have a clevo X7200 laptop with a X58 desktop chipset and a Xeon W3680 This laptop has two MXM slots, both can deliver 100W with 100W heatsinks as well. Officially this laptop works with the GTX 680M as the best MXM GPU. It does work with GTX Fermi as stock and AMD 5000-6000. Many in the past tried a GTX 780M, 980M but there was nothing on display. But none of them tested the next combo of: putting a Kepler based GTX 670/680/K3000M GPU in the master slot and GTX 780M/980M in the slave slot. So I tried to put a Quadro P5200 in the first slot, not work. But If I do a GTX 680M for display + Quadro P5200 for 3d rendering, the laptop boots. Detects both GPU as Nvidia Graphics Card in the BIOS. So what I did is having a GTX 680 2GB DELL card in the first slot (master) and a Quadro P5200 in the second slot (slave). So yes, you can add a much recent card in the Clevo X7200 only if you have a compatible GPU for display in the master slot. I do have one issue. My GPU is performing worse. Like it's averaging 70W in 3dmark and heaven benchmark. In FurMark I did get 84W spike at best. The GPU has a 110W vBIOS. My temps seems to be good (below 80C on 3d benchmarking), I added thermal paste and thermal pads on VRAMs and VRMs. @triturbowho sold me the card was able to achieve 110W average with an HP 8740W with an Intel Core i7 740QM and PCIE at 2.0 x16. My laptop does pull PCIE 2.0 x16 speed for both MXM slots. I get 3400 points on 3dmark TimeSpy instead of 5700. There is no thermal throttling, GPU is being used at 100% according to GPU-Z. My AC Adapter is a 300W 20V one and I have a 2024 Nvidia Quadro driver (modded .INF for both GTX 680M and P5200). How can I achieve 100W average when benchmarking/stress testing, am I power limited? Does the vbios has a bad reading for the target power limit? (Temps sensor work, I hear fan speeding up when doing some benchmarks).

You know what. I made a new thread in Graphics Card. I don't know if that's the right place to put it in.

Later for the thread. Because I didn't test the Quadro K3000M + dual PSUs

CPU is good

And I'll upgrade my CPU to a Xeon W3680 too. Imagine the GPU gets dropped

From the outlet. The PSU is a 300W. I did see some people doing SLI GTX 680M With only one 300W brick... Maybe SLI and non-sli is different ? (I don't have enough ressources, maybe they used 2 PSUs?) The 680M isn't using a whole power, it's in idle.

On 3d benchmarking? 180-190W. I edited the existing bios file from the card itself so no worries, right.

Same for 3dmark. TimeSpy: 3400, 77W max FireStrike: 10500, 84W max. Should I just edit my VBIOS and thinker with the TDP? Like 95W or 125W instead of 110W? Should I get a quadro K3000M (75W) for the master mxm instead of GTX 680M?

This is FurMark, look at gpu-z graph.

Temps are all good. Otherwise I'll get a thermal throttle warning in GPU-Z. Below 75C in benchmarking GPU is being used at 100% in 3dmark, heaven Benchmark, Passmark, yes. The card is a 100W version with a 110W vBIOS. My max wattage was 84W in FireStrike and for triturbo it was 127W! Triturbo was using a CPU way slower than mine and he got greater results with the same card, so no, no CPU bottlenecks.

Also the laptop always start with 100% fan on CPU and GPUs. Even with a single GTX 485M, it's normal to be loud at the start. How can I fix low wattage? I want to get atleast 90W average on benchmarks. Slave MXM slot can do 100W max.