Dell M6800 Quadro p3000 upgrade

[Yaheo R.]

Good morning/ evening 

I have a Dell M6800 with i7-4910MQ, Quadro K5100m, FHD Panel hopefully eDP.

Due to DX12 limitations I'm considering upgrading to Quadro P3000.

I have heard it's a quite complex upgrade needing ES vbios and some sort of heatsink modifications.

I'll be really grateful if someone provided me with the needed vbios along with the roadmap of upgrade.

Thanks 

[Aaron44126]

Please see this thread (especially the later pages).

 

vBIOS images are here.

 

[Yaheo R.]

@Aaron44126

That's more like the best roadmap for the upgrade, thanks a lot❤️

Though I have one question, for Nvidia heatsink what part exactly I need to perform a cut on?

[Aaron44126]

I don't have a good picture for you, but it is a part that hovers above the "top" of the GPU card (the edge furthest away from the connector) where the VRMs are. The VRMs on Maxwell and later GPUs are in a slightly different position than the ones on Kepler cards. You have to cut off a bit that is protruding "downwards" and hits one of the rearranged VRMs, so that the heatsink can fit. If you try to fit the heatsink on the card with this in mind, it will be obvious.

[Yaheo R.]

@Aaron44126

Here's good images for both sides of Nvidia heatsink I'm hoping to get a pinpoint to the area to be cut.

Excuse my English, please as it isn't my first language.

[Aaron44126]

The image on the right is the bottom side of the heastink. The bottom edge there with the blue thermal pads covers the part of the GPU card that is furthest away from the connector edge. There is a protruding bit in the center that will bump into the VRMs on the GPU card. Part of that has to be cut off. You'll have to do a physical inspection holding the card up to it to see which edge needs to be cut and how much. I haven't done this mod myself. You might want to engage with other users who have done the mod, in the thread that I linked above.