Precision M6800 questions and upgrades

[AaronD]

4 hours ago, BoheN said:

does it run very hot?

Idling, no.  The fan stays off.  When it's working, the fan runs as expected.

[BoheN]

On 12/11/2022 at 3:13 AM, Jers6410 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Iam set on getting the P5000 for my M6800, only picture i seen with new thermal pads is this one using AMD heatsink, which pads should i order for the nvidia heatsink? how tall should they be?

[AaronD]

15 hours ago, BoheN said:

which pads should i order for the nvidia heatsink? how tall should they be?

I replaced nVidia with nVidia, and reused the same original pads.  Seems to work just fine.

 

If you're replacing AMD with nVidia, then I wouldn't know.

[BoheN]

57 minutes ago, AaronD said:

I replaced nVidia with nVidia, and reused the same original pads.  Seems to work just fine.

 

If you're replacing AMD with nVidia, then I wouldn't know.

Iam replacing old K3100, i bet these pads are quite not good, i want to have a good heat transfer on the P5000, i was looking at 0.2mm high PTM7950 from Honeywell, they should be alright, right?

[AaronD]

27 minutes ago, BoheN said:

Iam replacing old K3100

I replaced a K5100.  The old pads were just fine.  They don't degrade, unless you've had water in there, or had it apart before and torn them up.  I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Do clean off and replace the grease though, every time that surface separates.