MODDER1

Hi! That's interesting, it makes sense. We definitely have some limits with these machine. That would be great. I forgot about this. What are the solutions on the 980? using PTM7950 with another copper plate...or maybe not install it at all ahah.

Happy to hear from you @Daedalus! Truuue, mine is also going faster (booting, lauching app, etc). Yep! I was thinking about doing a modded heatsink with a copper plate (5mm), and then soldering the stock copper heatpipes on it , for better cooling on these type B cards. exactly, with the DC being a rare pokemon, i was also thinking about installing a new standard eDP screen on my 8570w, but i know its still not fully resolved on the forum (modded cable vs nvidia drivers vs screen whitelist vs etc, ahah), and then go for and test the newest RTX cards.

Hello All, crazy stuff on this thread and tremendous work by everybody, insane amount of informations, so a big thank you first! Second, i'm very new (n00b) to modding, and i got a 8570w also (gift) since 2-3 years, and from what i read, we can do a lot of upgrade with this elitebook, and since day one, i really wanted to push this beast to a build with a lot of potential. For now, i just updated the stockage to a SSD kingston, replace the heatsink (the laptop was overheating everytime with slightiest use) by the a spare one, and still dealing with the original cpu and gpu (quadro k2000m). I will definitly upgrade the CPU with the Core i7-3940XM (pretty simple task) but then come the gpu part, and all the mods il will have to do. I saw that @Daedalus had the same desire regarding his 8570w, did you manage to finally install a 980m on it ?