MRichartz

I found your write up on that after I messaged here. Got a little lost later on on the various coding, but can probably decipher it when it's time, and probably will see noticeably where the heatsink would be an issue. Based on what you were saying there, it does sound like this might be the better option. I got one of the programs you suggested and ran it on my monitor, a LGD02DA (at least remotely as I login to my laptop from work), which looking that up is showing LVDS. There was some new card configuration that I remember reading last year was needed for Adobe to run properly and somewhere it said the 7710s on up had it. If it's the card, looking the M5000M up, I think I saw it was in the 7710, so this could solve that problem. I guess there is one way to find out...off to eBay. 🙂 Does this correct model number I would need for the card: Nvidia Quadro M5000M 8GB DDR5 256Bit Video Card 1JY2V Dell Precision 7710 7720

What is the major difference between my GPU and the M5000M? Years ago, I was told it was RAM I needed on the card that helped to process, and why I was happy that I now had 8GB vs the 4GB I had before. But looking briefly at the specs, they have the same, only mine is DDR3 (Kepler card?) vs DDR5 (Maxwell?). Will that make a big difference? I also saw someplace reference to the eDP MBs and needing a matching screen then, which allowed more options and I think is what Adobe now looks for. Is there an easy way of knowing what my system has without pulling it apart and looking up the part numbers? I have CPU-Z to find out most of the system, but what designated that it's eDP?

Hi everyone. New guy to the forum here, but I've had an M6800 for the last 4 years and have loved it and just stumbled on this thread doing a search on options to extend it's usefulness. Prior to that I used an M6600, I still have it, for many years and upgraded the I7 CPU to an Extreme, RAM, camera, finger scan, etc to trick it out as much as I could from searches I did back then. Before that I think I had the M6400 (I do miss the jog shuttle trackpad). I started getting these when I read they were the best option so I could do the video editing, but was always buying a few years prior due to budget when I saw a bargain I could afford. All had Quadro cards which I also read was the best option for editing. I love my M6800 and it's gone through a lot the last few years, but I've hit two limitations that have caused me to debate if I need to start looking for a newer model. Adobe has been giving me warnings about the graphics cards (Quadro and Intel) not being supported since 2019, and when they did a forced upgrade from their 2021 version I was using a few month back into 2022, it bricked their program on my 6800. Couldn't get 2022 to run most of the time, and if it finally did, couldn't open any edits. I reinstalled the 2021 version, and now it's working again with the usual card warnings, but something still isn't quite up to par from before. When I talked to their tech support last year when I was first looking into the card issue, they said it was Nvidia's fault for not making a current driver and had me install a generic Windows driver from 2005. Talking with Nvidia tech, they said never use a driver that old or generic. They made sure I had the latest from them (about two weeks old) and then told me it was Adobe not supporting the card anymore. After that I did read it seems to be Adobe's common practice to make any system a few years old obsolete for their software. I've been on the verge of getting rid of Adobe and learning new editing software, but I've used it now for the last 10 years or so. But it seems it's that, or consider a more expensive, less expandable Precision because eventually Adobe will remove their 2021 version as an option. The card in question is the K5100M. This was an amazing upgrade from the 6600 I wanted to upgrade the GPU on until I found this 6800 for just a little more than the card would have cost for the 6600. Current configuration of my 6800 has the 4900MQ 2.8 I7, 32GB RAM, the K5100M and every bay filled with HDs (including the DVDs replaced with a tray and small mSATA). Most of these drives I've just been transferring from one Precision to the next, if I didn't buy a larger one eventually. I've not really done any upgrades other than the HDs and a wifi card (although now thinking of the one mentioned earlier). It's taken just about everything I've thrown at it, even when it comes to games I play, like Borderlands, Gears of War, etc. Sure my friends Alienware desktop displays better graphics, but it's never stopped me from gaming...until the latest Tiny Tina Borderlands spinoff I got the other day and I have to run it at the lowest settings just to keep around 45 fps and not drop below 30. That's the second thought of why I'm wondering if it's time to watch for a deal on a newer unit, has it reached the end of it's gaming life for me too? I know the Quadro isn't a gaming card, but up until now, it hasn't seemed to matter. Seeing the posts here it seems many have a good idea of upgrades that can be done to these machines beyond what most lists online show the machine is built for. I thought I'd join and follow this thread for "out of the box" options. I thought I was more or less maxed out until now. But is it worth looking into the P5000 card, faster RAM, and the i7-4940mx to let my machine serve a few more years better than most newer laptops could, or will Adobe still leave me with a more expensive modified brick when it comes to editing? I'll put a few hundred in this machine to make it better, versus that same money into a newer basic model of specs and then needing to slowly buy upgrades since it seems they are totally different inside, if even possible to upgrade the M7710-40. Like the original poster, thoughts on maxing this out, which I love tinkering and doing, but will help me when it comes to editing or some of the newer games where even low settings now challenge my system? Thanks for reading the long ramble of questions and concerned thoughts. Mike