jeamn Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 I recently upgraded the GPU of my 7720 and was pleasantly surprised how easily it went. I already had a P3000 GPU in the laptop and to be honest, it was perfectly fine for what I typically do with the laptop. But, well, you know how it goes.... I shopped around on ebay for MXM upgrade cards. I thought about trying one of the non-standard MXM cards but ended up settling on a $280 P4000. The card itself looks basically identical for my current p3000. It does appear to be coated with some sort of epoxy over all the surface mount components, including the VRMs. Hopefully that doesn't impact thermals (More on that later). I have done some board repairs on both GPUs and motherboards in the past. Clearly that's not an option with this card. In typical Dell Precision fashion, disassembly to get to the GPU was pretty easy and straight forward. After removing the heatsink, it was clear the thermal compound was ready to be replaced anyway, it was quite dried out. The card did not come with a heat sink x-bracket, so I had to pop that loose from the existing card and install it on the new one. It took a fair amount of pressure, both to remove it from the old GPU and to install it on the new one. After reassembly, I booted the laptop and immediately got a BSOD when I logged into windows. The error code was "VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGMENT_INTERNAL However, it cleared up on the next reboot. I had not uninstalled drivers before swapping video cards, which is what I believed caused the BSOD. After running through some games and benchmarks, I'm pretty happy. Performance was improved about 20-25% over the P3000. I actually believe this is the Max-Q variant of a P4000. I'm happy with the performance, but it's a little less than what other people have benchmarked. Although it seems to boost a little bit higher than the stock specs, it seems to max TDP at about 60W (with a few spikes higher) rather than the spec'ed 100W of a P4000. I'm actually OK with that. During gaming and benchmarking, the card runs exceptionally cool (<60C usually, with hardly any fans running) and the laptop still has excellent battery life I am currently running the card with Optimus enabled and the thunderbolt/HDMI ports directy connected to the GPU. I typically run the laptop connected to a thunderbolt dock connected to a 32:9 1440p monitor. Using the BIOS option to directly connect external display output to the GPU was necessary to enable high refresh rates on my monitor. (That was also the case for my P3000) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldarxt Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Hey jeamn, Look in Gpuz at the bus interface and make sure it reads PCIe x 16 3.0 @ x 16 3.0 and not x8 3.0. I recently put that card in my m17x r4 and got similar scores as you but then noticed Gpuz bus interface x8 3.0. I so I removed and cleaned the contacts of the card and got even worse numbers so I went back in just loosened the screws and applied pressure to the card to fully seat in the socket, tighened it up and got the PCIe x 16 3.0 @ x 16 3.0 reading and my scores went up ! Real happy with this card I bought a 2nd one and put it in m18xr2 now I want to put one in Precision M6700, but not till I get something more powerful for one of the Alienwares. I thought it was a great deal at $280 also. Am still tempted to buy another but hoping for RTX mxm to show up. Hope this helps 2 Clevo P870DM3-G i9-9900k-32.0GB 2667mhz-RTX3080+GTX1080 Alienware M18x R2 i7-3920xm-32GB DDR3-RTX 3000 Alienware M17x R4 i7-3940XM-16GB DDR3-RTX 3000 Alienware M17x R4 i7-3940XM 20GB DDR3-P4000 120hz 3D Precision m6700 i7-3840QM-16GB DDR3-GTX 970M Precision m4700 i7-3840QM-16GB DDR3-T2000M HP ZBook 17 G6 i7 9850H-32GB DDR4-RTX4000maxQ GOBOXX SLM G2721-i7-10875H RTX 3000-32GB ddr4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron44126 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 If you did want to raise the power limit it would probably just require flashing a different vBIOS on there... If you could find the "official Dell" vBIOS for this GPU then that would be ideal. It's hard to get to the point of a temperature problem with these beefy NVIDIA GPU chips that are intended to run in desktops at higher power levels. When I tried P5000 in the M6700, it would pull around 110W and I was still never able to get it anywhere near thermal throttling. I have noted that it leveled off at around 76 °C when I put it under an extended load. (That was with the fan running full tilt, though.) Also, doesn't matter to you since you are done already, but to anyone else: the X-bracket is easier to get off if you apply some heat (heat gun or hair dryer). 1 Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) • Dell Precision 7560 (work) • Full specs in spoiler block below Info posts (Windows) — Turbo boost toggle • The problem with Windows 11 • About Windows 10/11 LTSC Spoiler Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) M2 Max 4 efficiency cores 8 performance cores 38-core Apple GPU 96GB LPDDR5-6400 8TB SSD macOS 15 "Sequoia" 16.2" 3456×2234 120 Hz mini-LED ProMotion display Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3 99.6Wh battery 1080p webcam Fingerprint reader Also — iPhone 12 Pro 512GB, Apple Watch Series 8 Dell Precision 7560 (work) Intel Xeon W-11955M ("Tiger Lake") 8×2.6 GHz base, 5.0 GHz turbo, hyperthreading ("Willow Cove") 64GB DDR4-3200 ECC NVIDIA RTX A2000 4GB Storage: 512GB system drive (Micron 2300) 4TB additional storage (Sabrent Rocket Q4) Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 15.6" 3940×2160 IPS display Intel Wi-Fi AX210 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3) 95Wh battery 720p IR webcam Fingerprint reader Previous Dell Precision 7770, 7530, 7510, M4800, M6700 Dell Latitude E6520 Dell Inspiron 1720, 5150 Dell Latitude CPi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldarxt Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Hey Aaron4412, These Quadro P4000's seem to be locked, I wish there was a way to flash an unlocked vbios on them I would not hesitate but searched around found nothing and ssj92 on this forum said they are locked vbios and wish there was a way around it. Its a good card and the mxm's are hard to find above this performance level, was looking at P5000 but if I go for a higher price might as well go for higher performance at least RTX 3000 but nothing in sight and rumors of RTX A4000 so I trying my patience hoping to keep these MXM laptops alive 1 Clevo P870DM3-G i9-9900k-32.0GB 2667mhz-RTX3080+GTX1080 Alienware M18x R2 i7-3920xm-32GB DDR3-RTX 3000 Alienware M17x R4 i7-3940XM-16GB DDR3-RTX 3000 Alienware M17x R4 i7-3940XM 20GB DDR3-P4000 120hz 3D Precision m6700 i7-3840QM-16GB DDR3-GTX 970M Precision m4700 i7-3840QM-16GB DDR3-T2000M HP ZBook 17 G6 i7 9850H-32GB DDR4-RTX4000maxQ GOBOXX SLM G2721-i7-10875H RTX 3000-32GB ddr4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron44126 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 30 minutes ago, aldarxt said: Hey Aaron4412, These Quadro P4000's seem to be locked Hmm, interesting, I didn't realize that this was a thing. Regarding high-end GPUs, HP does make some Quadro RTX (Turing) MXM cards. The layout is off a bit but RTX 3000 has been demonstrated working in the M6700 (by drilling new holes through the GPU heatsink). It doesn't even have the vBIOS/BSOD issue the Pascal cards have in the M6700/M6800. RTX 5000 has the same layout so it should also work. I'd think that these cards would also work in other systems, if they physically fit (and with a heatsink mod). https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-precision-m6700-nvidia-turing-rtx-card-discussion-thread.833140/index.html (Sorry you can't really see the pictures. Still need to fix attachments in NBRCHIVE.) I also haven't heard a whisper about the possibility of Ampere MXM GPUs. You would think RTX A1000/A2000/A3000 at least would be possible on a regular card. 2 Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) • Dell Precision 7560 (work) • Full specs in spoiler block below Info posts (Windows) — Turbo boost toggle • The problem with Windows 11 • About Windows 10/11 LTSC Spoiler Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) M2 Max 4 efficiency cores 8 performance cores 38-core Apple GPU 96GB LPDDR5-6400 8TB SSD macOS 15 "Sequoia" 16.2" 3456×2234 120 Hz mini-LED ProMotion display Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3 99.6Wh battery 1080p webcam Fingerprint reader Also — iPhone 12 Pro 512GB, Apple Watch Series 8 Dell Precision 7560 (work) Intel Xeon W-11955M ("Tiger Lake") 8×2.6 GHz base, 5.0 GHz turbo, hyperthreading ("Willow Cove") 64GB DDR4-3200 ECC NVIDIA RTX A2000 4GB Storage: 512GB system drive (Micron 2300) 4TB additional storage (Sabrent Rocket Q4) Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 15.6" 3940×2160 IPS display Intel Wi-Fi AX210 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3) 95Wh battery 720p IR webcam Fingerprint reader Previous Dell Precision 7770, 7530, 7510, M4800, M6700 Dell Latitude E6520 Dell Inspiron 1720, 5150 Dell Latitude CPi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeamn Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 I think you need a specific nvflash to flash a different bios with a different device id from a different vendor. But this particular card does have a bios chip (as do all Dell MXMs, iirc) and you can flash whatever the heck you want to on an MXM card with a ch341a programmer. There was even a tool on the old forum where you could do some small modifications to the bios and update the checksum to get it to pass validation: https://github.com/LaneLyng/MobilePascalTDPTweaker You can get P4200 MXM cards on ebay with the same layout. I seriously thought about trying that, but had some reservations about the power draw. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeamn Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 2 hours ago, aldarxt said: Look in Gpuz at the bus interface and make sure it reads PCIe x 16 3.0 @ x 16 3.0 and not x8 3.0. Thanks for the tip. I did check this and it's reporting as x16 3.0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuentincc Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Hi, I ended up getting a 7720 for cheap (7700HQ/P3000 + a 7710 for 340...), I was thinking of getting a GTX 1070 for this laptop, I already have a standard Aetina that I need to fix but I also have a MSI 1070 but it doesn't fit the heatsink, does 7710 and 7720 share the same heatsink ? I was thinking of modding the 7710 heatsink to handle this MSI card. Do someone know how much power allow the 7720 to go through the MXM slot ? Thanks you Desktop / I7 12700K @5/4GHz 1.24v / MSI Z690 Edge Wifi DDR4 / 32GB DDR4 B-die @4000c15 / RTX 3080 EVGA XC3 Ultra / Triple 27" 4k120 + 2*4k60 XPS 9500 / I7 10750H @3.2GHz all-core / 32GB DDR4 2400MHz / GTX 1650Ti 4GB (upgrade to 8GB planned) @50W / 15.6" UHD / NVME / 86Wh XPS 9570 / I7 8750H @3.2GHz all-core / 32GB DDR4 2666MHz / GTX 1050 Ti 4GB @50W / 15.6" UHD touch / NVME / 97Wh Precision 7550 / I9 10885H @4.6GHz all-core / 32GB DDR4 2933MHz / Quadro RTX3000 6GB (upgrade to RTX5000 core + 16GB planned) @80W / 15.6" FHD IPS 500nits / NVME / 95Wh I was the one that run an overclocked I7 3920XM @4.2GHz all-core in a M6700 with 32GB 2133MHz DDR3L, a Quadro P4000 and a 4k eDP display (also did dual LVDS/eDP internal display) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron44126 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 hours ago, TheQuentincc said: Hi, I ended up getting a 7720 for cheap (7700HQ/P3000 + a 7710 for 340...), I was thinking of getting a GTX 1070 for this laptop, I already have a standard Aetina that I need to fix but I also have a MSI 1070 but it doesn't fit the heatsink, does 7710 and 7720 share the same heatsink ? I was thinking of modding the 7710 heatsink to handle this MSI card. Do someone know how much power allow the 7720 to go through the MXM slot ? Can only sort-of answer this. 7X10 and 7X20 are compatible enough in terms of chassis to the point that you can upgrade a 7X10 to 7X20 by just swapping out the motherboard. So, I think that it is likely that the heatsinks will be cross-compatible. Some comparisons of the photos in the service manual should be able to confirm this with reasonable certainty. 7X20 shipped with P5000 GPU which could draw around 110W through MXM, IIRC. (I tried a P5000 in my M6700 but ended up having to get rid of it due to stability reasons... but it definitely passed the normal 100W cap, under high load it would draw extra power and end up causing the CPU to throttle due to being power-starved.) 1 Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) • Dell Precision 7560 (work) • Full specs in spoiler block below Info posts (Windows) — Turbo boost toggle • The problem with Windows 11 • About Windows 10/11 LTSC Spoiler Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) M2 Max 4 efficiency cores 8 performance cores 38-core Apple GPU 96GB LPDDR5-6400 8TB SSD macOS 15 "Sequoia" 16.2" 3456×2234 120 Hz mini-LED ProMotion display Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3 99.6Wh battery 1080p webcam Fingerprint reader Also — iPhone 12 Pro 512GB, Apple Watch Series 8 Dell Precision 7560 (work) Intel Xeon W-11955M ("Tiger Lake") 8×2.6 GHz base, 5.0 GHz turbo, hyperthreading ("Willow Cove") 64GB DDR4-3200 ECC NVIDIA RTX A2000 4GB Storage: 512GB system drive (Micron 2300) 4TB additional storage (Sabrent Rocket Q4) Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 15.6" 3940×2160 IPS display Intel Wi-Fi AX210 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3) 95Wh battery 720p IR webcam Fingerprint reader Previous Dell Precision 7770, 7530, 7510, M4800, M6700 Dell Latitude E6520 Dell Inspiron 1720, 5150 Dell Latitude CPi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeamn Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 Well, I finally figured out why my P4000 was not utilizing it's full TDP. It was actually a driver issue. When I upgraded from the P3000, I had simply re-installed the drivers. However, after I cleaned everything out with DDU and re-installed the drivers via safe-mode, the card was using it's full TDP when running games/benchmarks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Fox Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 I don't really see a thread where this would fit, so I will put this here since it relates to the same model. I replaced the lid and palmrest last weekend with new ones from PartsPeople. Since it is a full teardown, it might be useful to someone wanting to upgrade their GPU. I think Brother @Recieveris going to enjoy some of the elevator music choices I selected. 1 2 1 Wraith // Z790 Apex | 14900KS | 4090 Suprim X+Byksi Block | 48GB DDR5-8600 | Toughpower GF3 1650W | MO-RA3 360 | Hailea HC-500A || O11D XL EVO Banshee // Z790 Apex Encore | 14900KF | 4090 Gaming OC+Alphacool Block | 48GB DDR5-8600 | RM1200x SHIFT | XT45 1080 Nova || Antec C8 Spectre // Z790i Edge | 13900KS | 3090 Ti FTW3 | 48GB DDR5-8200 | RM1000e | EK Nucleus CR360 Direct Die || Prime A21 Raptor // Z690 PG Velocita | 13900KS | 2080 Ti | 32GB DDR5-6400 | RM1200x SHIFT | EK Nucleus CR360 Dark || Praxis Wetbench Half-Breed // Dell Precision 7720 | BGA CPU Filth+MXM Quadro P5000 | 4K Display | Sub-$500 Grade A Refurb | Nothing to Write Home About Mr. Fox YouTube Channel | Mr. Fox @ HWBOT The average response time for a 911 call is 10 minutes. The response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowan Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Question. Is the precision 7720 a 30 pin or 40 pin edp? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Fox Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 24 minutes ago, Nowan said: Question. Is the precision 7720 a 30 pin or 40 pin edp? Don't quote me on it because I haven't looked to verify, but I believe the FHD 1080p and lower resolution are 30-pin and the 4K is 40-pin. The best way to verify that is to look at a replacement eDP cable online (like eBay) and zoom in to count the connections. 2 Wraith // Z790 Apex | 14900KS | 4090 Suprim X+Byksi Block | 48GB DDR5-8600 | Toughpower GF3 1650W | MO-RA3 360 | Hailea HC-500A || O11D XL EVO Banshee // Z790 Apex Encore | 14900KF | 4090 Gaming OC+Alphacool Block | 48GB DDR5-8600 | RM1200x SHIFT | XT45 1080 Nova || Antec C8 Spectre // Z790i Edge | 13900KS | 3090 Ti FTW3 | 48GB DDR5-8200 | RM1000e | EK Nucleus CR360 Direct Die || Prime A21 Raptor // Z690 PG Velocita | 13900KS | 2080 Ti | 32GB DDR5-6400 | RM1200x SHIFT | EK Nucleus CR360 Dark || Praxis Wetbench Half-Breed // Dell Precision 7720 | BGA CPU Filth+MXM Quadro P5000 | 4K Display | Sub-$500 Grade A Refurb | Nothing to Write Home About Mr. Fox YouTube Channel | Mr. Fox @ HWBOT The average response time for a 911 call is 10 minutes. The response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron44126 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 55 minutes ago, Nowan said: Question. Is the precision 7720 a 30 pin or 40 pin edp? 28 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said: Don't quote me on it because I haven't looked to verify, but I believe the FHD 1080p and lower resolution are 30-pin and the 4K is 40-pin. The best way to verify that is to look at a replacement eDP cable online (like eBay) and zoom in to count the connections. I believe that this is the case, too. I don't remember the details for each model, but 30-pin for low-res and 40-pin for high-res is common for Dell to do (with the same system/motherboard). If you want to "upgrade" the display panel then you will probably have to swap out the display cable as well. You could possibly use a 30-pin panel with a 40-pin cable, with an adapter, but not the other way around. ...Around this era, they also had a tendency to stuff the webcam cable in with the display cable so that it uses a single connector on the motherboard and splits off inside the display enclosure. 1 1 Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) • Dell Precision 7560 (work) • Full specs in spoiler block below Info posts (Windows) — Turbo boost toggle • The problem with Windows 11 • About Windows 10/11 LTSC Spoiler Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) M2 Max 4 efficiency cores 8 performance cores 38-core Apple GPU 96GB LPDDR5-6400 8TB SSD macOS 15 "Sequoia" 16.2" 3456×2234 120 Hz mini-LED ProMotion display Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3 99.6Wh battery 1080p webcam Fingerprint reader Also — iPhone 12 Pro 512GB, Apple Watch Series 8 Dell Precision 7560 (work) Intel Xeon W-11955M ("Tiger Lake") 8×2.6 GHz base, 5.0 GHz turbo, hyperthreading ("Willow Cove") 64GB DDR4-3200 ECC NVIDIA RTX A2000 4GB Storage: 512GB system drive (Micron 2300) 4TB additional storage (Sabrent Rocket Q4) Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 15.6" 3940×2160 IPS display Intel Wi-Fi AX210 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3) 95Wh battery 720p IR webcam Fingerprint reader Previous Dell Precision 7770, 7530, 7510, M4800, M6700 Dell Latitude E6520 Dell Inspiron 1720, 5150 Dell Latitude CPi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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