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Zbook 17 G5 potential mods


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Hello all!  Just asking what people have done to their newer G5s, if anyone has modded anything.  These are 17" workstations with up to a P5200 GPU and mobile Xeon, so they can pack a heck of a wallop even nowadays.

 

One thing offhand I can think of is an upgraded panel, because the 1080p screen installed is only 60hz and cannot be overclocked (to my knowledge) without extreme visual glitches.  Even manual OC to a new profile at 62hz causes severe distortion.  But I think the panel is a weird 30pin eDP panel, and there are virtually no 30pin high refresh rate 1080p panels that I could find.

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I never thought of such mod haha. HRR is most often used for playing games, right? Personally, most of the time I spend playing games I do at home, on my desk, using a monitor.

 

I would be more interested in knowing whether these systems can take a more recent RTX card.

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On 3/3/2022 at 11:06 PM, pixelado_92 said:

I never thought of such mod haha. HRR is most often used for playing games, right? Personally, most of the time I spend playing games I do at home, on my desk, using a monitor.

 

I would be more interested in knowing whether these systems can take a more recent RTX card.

 

Yeah, that would be a great mod/upgrade too.  Sadly most of the Nvidia 2k, 3k, or A-series MXM boards are fully proprietary size and shape, with offset mounting screws, and sometimes fully proprietary connectors.  And there are zero AMD mxms (that I am aware of) since the e9550, which is essentially a RX480m...  And also very hard to get, and very expensive for only RX480 level performance.  Shame too, because a 67/6800m mxm would be a great addition to the mxm world.

 

I've seen a rotated-core 2060m mxm that is standard form factor, but only its datasheet.  Kinda the same situation as the 115w 8GB A4500, its specs are out but I haven't found any kind of vendor for it.  I've now seen some bio-med companies speccing out machines with that card (A4500 mxm) but again, no prices.  The image on the available datasheet shows it as a standard mounting and size, but who knows?

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