Jers6410

Hello there everyone! It's been a while since the last post here. I feel really thankful with the people here because without your help I wouldn't have been able to move forward with the upgrade plans for my machine. So this is what I have right now: CPU: Intel Core i7-4910MQ GPU: NVIDIA Quadro P4000 RAM: 16 Gb (8x2) HyperX DDR3L-2133 Display: LG 1920x1080 LVDS Big upgrades where achieved! I also want to share my experience with the Quadro P4000 on this machine... It actually works really well! Is an amazing GPU considering it is a Pascal gen. To make this GPU work on this Precision M6800 a little of hard work was needed... Things to consider: 1. An specific BIOS is needed for this GPU 2. Since this machine came with an AMD GPU in the first place, modding the heatsink was necessary but, if someone else find this useful, it is completely possible. 3. The thermal pads sizes are completely different from the stock ones. With the first point of that list I have to say a big thank you to the people who was able to get the BIOS for this card to work, if someone else wants to try a Quadro P4000 on a Precision M6800 you can find the bios on this link: And of course please say thank as well to the people who managed to get the files. With this post I want to say thanks once again to those people! The second point of that list wasn't so hard as I though, here a share with you some pictures of the heatsink before and after the mod: Before After As you may noticed a cut to the copper part of the the heatsink was needed here (red square) specifically it was an area of 3mm. This was made with the help of a mini rotary tool and some hard work from my brother (thanks man!). The third point of the list was a bit tricky... To get correct size for the thermal pads a little try and failure was necessary, the method I used was to put some thermal paste on the GPU die and then put the the pads that may or may not be the correct for this card and heatsink. After a lot of hard work the correct sizes was something like this: Why this sizes? Well that's because the AMD heatsink seems to be of a different height compared to NVIDIA one... And the GPU die was far taller than my previous FirePro M6100 so this was the sizes that worked for me. If someone else find a better sizes for this kind of project please make the corresponding corrections to this post. The thermal pads you see in the picture are Gelid Ultimate. The temps for this card where actually pretty interesting... HWinfo shows a maximum temp of 65.3 degrees and sometimes I was able to see a 68 degrees temp under high load (after gaming or rendering a video) and a maximum "GPU Hot Spot Temperature" of 76.3 degrees (don't kwon what this value refers to). This are the results after a benchmark: Well this was my experience with this project, I'm really happy with this machine! Almost forgot to mention that the drivers for this card where installed with the help of nvclean install tool with this settings (no need of disabling driver signature verification): I hope that someone find this useful in the future. Best regards to the community!

This is a really useful info! Now you opened up new possibilities for me! I found a P4000 for 280$ listed as P/N 900-6G418-0000-000, I don't have that much money right now but now I'm seriously considering that GPU. Using optimus is not a problem for me but if I get that card and it works without problems the new goal will be updating the mainboard to the eDP version. What do you think? Should I start making savings for the P4000? Flashing the bios will be the only downside for me because I don't have any experience doing so and to be honest it makes me feel a bit nervous... Does the P4000 works without problems? And thanks a lot for this info I'll take your advice!

Can anyone confirm that those pad sizes are correct?

Is this correct for Precision M6800 if I use the modified AMD heatsink?

I need help with something... In a few months I'm planning to buy new thermal pads for this Precision M6800 GPU and CPU. Does anyone know the pads thickness I should get? Gelid solutions 12 W/mK are the ones I want to get.

Ok when the time comes I will check that! Thanks for your help!

That's great! Do you have a picture or something like that to see which part needs to be removed?

Really? If that's so then I can forget to buy the Nvidia heatsink!

I see... That second vrm makes things different. Well, it can be difficult but I still want to try to get the Maxwell heatsink. Right now I'm not able to buy the NVIDIA GPU but even so I want to get the Maxwell heatsink... Maybe someone in the community can sell one to me, in that case we can talk. Thanks for the info @Aaron44126 I really appreciate it!

Hello everyone! I'm back here to give some updates of my machine progress! With the great help of @jaybee83 now I can confirm a few things about this Precision M6800! 2133 Mhz ram works! And Intel AX200 works too! HyperX 16 Gb 8x2 ram works and AX200 are both compatible for this machine. For the AX200 I attached a picture with a red circle showing the port I installed the card with the adapter, but because the port is msata full size and the adapter is half size I just put a piece of card to keep down the adapter on the place it should while I get something more stylish for that purpose. I also have to mention that the cables used for this to work were the same cables of the old wifi card, I just redirected them to the needed place. Thanks to everyone here for giving me some of your time again! Next plans are: Get an I7-4910MQ Get another pair of HyperX 8 Gb 2133 ram to complete the 32 Gb set Get the Nvidia Maxwell edition heatsink for this machine Get a Nvidia GTX 980M And of course I also want to say thanks to @jaybee83 again! I hope this experience can help someone else around here.

I found this in NBR, is referring to bios unlock. https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/guide-dell-precision-m6800-m4800-sbios-mod.788481/index.html What do everyone think? Sounds like a safe process? Will be worth the try?

Thanks! This makes me feel more relaxed about the PSU and about the ram is good to kwon the 32 Gb 1866 is possible. May I kwon if your setting is 8x4 or 16x2?

Good to know! I really appreciate this offer.

So the 1866 mhz wouldn't be a big benefit after all... This Precision came with the two pipe heatsink for CPU but the cost for a 4940mx is almost three times compared to a 4810QM... So I guess the 4810QM is a better choice. Thanks for that recommendation! This is the kind of things I need to know.

Hi everyone! I recently owned a Precision M6800, I'm really happy with this workstation and all the possibilities it has even now a days. This post here is to ask for some help... I want to upgrade this workstation to it's max capabilities. For the time I'm written this post the specs I have are the following: CPU: Intel Core i5-4200M GPU: AMD FirePro M6100 RAM: 8Gb (4x2) Crucial DDR3L-1600 DISPLAY: AU Optronics 1600x900 (LVDS) SSD: Crucial MX500 500Gb PSU: Flextronics GA240PE1-00 240W My future plans are upgrade everything as long as possible. I spent some time reading about that and learned that I can upgrade to a GTX 980M, an Intel I7 4940MX and up to 32 Gb RAM. Questions I have are this: Those 32 Gb RAM can be 1866 Mhz (8Gbx4)? or I have to stay with 32 Gb 1600? Also I read somewhere that actually a 2133 Mhz is possible but I wasn't able to find a single seller for this option... Is 4940MX really worth it? Or should I stay with... For example with a 4810MQ. I guess temps will not be a big problem cause I have Delta fans installed. I read somewhere in the web that BIOS unlock is possible but I was wondering if that is safe and if BIOS unlock will bring me some kind of advantage. PSU isn't the original one I know... Should I get the original Dell PSU? Is it worth to get the eDP MoBo? I would like to get a 1920x1080 display but not sure if I should stay LVDS or go straight for an eDP display by changing the MoBo. And this could sound a little crazy but I noticed JEDP port next to the LVDS one... Is it possible to solder an eDP input in that empty port? This workstation will used for both gaming and working on video editing. First thing I would like to try is unlocking the BIOS but not until being completely sure that by doing so I will be able to, for example overclock CPU, GPU and RAM if possible. The merely reason for unlock BIOS is actually to get control over fan speeds if possible but overclock something wouldn't be bad don't you think? From now I will really appreciate all of your help if you can spend some time here. Best regards to everyone.