M17X r4 - gpu upgrade Quadro RTX 5000

[SuperMG]

1 minute ago, Ollie87 said:

Ok the divers 528.24 allow me to change the watts but only in power shell it runs stable on 90w and also 100w, I don't have to adjust the core clock speed now, I'll investigate how to set MSI afterburner so I don't need to do this.

 

Looking good so far 

MSI afterburner has the same power functionality as the the shell smi one. 

[Ollie87]

MSI is working all good, was me being a fool, ive ordered the edp cable for the m17x r4 - i will investigate the screen next, doesnt arrive till the end of the month 

[SuperMG]

26 minutes ago, Ollie87 said:

MSI is working all good, was me being a fool, ive ordered the edp cable for the m17x r4 - i will investigate the screen next, doesnt arrive till the end of the month 

Me and one guy weren't able to get the RTX 3000 from HP to work with the M17X R4 eDP. In LEGACY and in UEFI. It's a 8 beeps.

 

However with a M6700 eDP, the RTX 3000 from HP works in both LEGACY and in UEFI.

 

Also you have the ADLINK version of the RTX 5000 which means your card lacks the backlight pins.

[Ollie87]

I still seem to have an issue with power, it managed to complete a GPU test on 90 watts, any higher wattage causes crashes, so far the best thing I've been able to do is limit the core MHz and not tamper with the power.

 

I have the screen and got a edp cable coming I'll keep the current screen on and boot the bios and throw it into PEG mode and try the other screen out, it's worth a go to see if by chance I can get it to work, should I be looking at changing it to muxless or keep it on fixed and full 

[SuperMG]

53 minutes ago, Ollie87 said:

I still seem to have an issue with power, it managed to complete a GPU test on 90 watts, any higher wattage causes crashes, so far the best thing I've been able to do is limit the core MHz and not tamper with the power.

 

I have the screen and got a edp cable coming I'll keep the current screen on and boot the bios and throw it into PEG mode and try the other screen out, it's worth a go to see if by chance I can get it to work, should I be looking at changing it to muxless or keep it on fixed and full 

90W no issues. So anything above 100W = issue.

 

Are your VRM/Coils cooled? Thermal pads touching the heatsink?

 

You should try with the RTX 5000 HP variant and see the results. It's a 110W to 115W max TDP card and see if the TDP issue persists or not. HP is better because the GPU has the backlight pins integrated in the circuit board.

[Ollie87]

I get crashes from around 95 watts onwards in-game, vrms are all covered i used silicon paste on them instead of pads as was worried they weren't touching the copper heatsink, I've seen your post on the backlight pin modification, I will check this out further.

 

The only way it works better is setting the core clock to lower MHz, it's stable with my maximum on 1350mhz, I'm going to tinker tonight with the settings and see what I can do with the voltage unlock.

 

Can't afford to buy the hp version they are very expensive around £800 

[ssj92]

On 3/5/2026 at 4:43 AM, SuperMG said:

Me and one guy weren't able to get the RTX 3000 from HP to work with the M17X R4 eDP. In LEGACY and in UEFI. It's a 8 beeps.

 

However with a M6700 eDP, the RTX 3000 from HP works in both LEGACY and in UEFI.

 

Also you have the ADLINK version of the RTX 5000 which means your card lacks the backlight pins.

So even with backlight cable you cannot get rtx 3000 to work in m17x r4?

 

 

[SuperMG]

2 minutes ago, ssj92 said:

So even with backlight cable you cannot get rtx 3000 to work in m17x r4?

 

 

No. We tried the HP RTX 3000 with 120Hz 3D in UEFI and legacy, not work. Tested in 2 different Alienware laptops.

 

Maybe we did something wrong? I don't know.

 

Only the M6700 and M6800 can accept HP RTX 3000/5000 with LEGACY BIOS and UEFI BIOS.

 

Newer Ampère and Ada cards need UEFI and Legacy OPROM disabled to work and display in the Internal screen. Got +240FPS in heaven benchmark with the M6800 eDP, RTX 4080 MXM and a bad heatsink.