MSI GT75/73 with AMD RX 5700 advice for Heat Sink

[Rengsey R. H. Jr.]

I have a Sonnet Puck,  RX 5700. It has in the MXM style. It fits perfectly in the MSI GT75/73. The only issue is making a heat sink for it. 

[Tenoroon]

55 minutes ago, Rengsey R. H. Jr. said:

I have a Sonnet Puck,  RX 5700. It has in the MXM style. It fits perfectly in the MSI GT75/73. The only issue is making a heat sink for it. 

The stock "Die heatsink" should fit if the mounting is the same as any other standard MXM card, use that to cool the die.



As for the VRM and VRAM, your best bet would be fabricating something that consists of 2-3 pipes that hit the VRAM and the VRM. I can sketch something up when I get home...

You could always modify the VRM cooling plate to fit on this card, I didn't even know there was a 5700 MXM lol, nice find!

[Reciever]

Ohhhh very interested to see how this pans out! 

 

My GTX 1080 is on its way out, mostly due to my taking things too far lol. Very interested to see how this comes about.

 

For the VRAM, you could like get away with some mosfet heatsinks just to get it up and running for testing, but copper isnt cheap most of the time. Maybe aluminum would be cheaper?

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@Rengsey R. H. Jr.

 

Have you made any progress with this project? Very curious how it turns out. Either pursuing this or the recently uncovered RX 6600 MXM card for my P157SM-A (new to me) 

[ssj92]

Wow that RX6600 MXM card is interesting. Looks close to full MXM 3.0b spec, would be interesting to see which laptops it works in. Couldn't find any place to buy the eGPU package that includes it. 

[Reciever]

15 minutes ago, ssj92 said:

Wow that RX6600 MXM card is interesting. Looks close to full MXM 3.0b spec, would be interesting to see which laptops it works in. Couldn't find any place to buy the eGPU package that includes it. 

closest I got was the manufacturer

 

https://www.sparkle.com.tw/en/Product/Detail/33

[cdoublejj]

700 US bones!  i was looking ato ne for my m17x r4 but, i had no idea there was an RX 5700 as well!!! i wonder how expensive it is!?

 

i wonder if Woodzstack is still around on one of these forums after the NBR buyout/shutdown?

[jaybee83]

6 hours ago, cdoublejj said:

700 US bones!  i was looking ato ne for my m17x r4 but, i had no idea there was an RX 5700 as well!!! i wonder how expensive it is!?

 

i wonder if Woodzstack is still around on one of these forums after the NBR buyout/shutdown?

ah, good ol' woodzstack, always lending a helping hand for us poor chaps looking for parts 🙂

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Not to go off topic too much but I think I saw someone claiming to be woodz on reddit off of the data hoarder subreddit 

[Mtheta]

As I started to look what other options there now are I found this card and according to my investigations it might work as upgrade for MSI GT75/73 laptops. 

 

Link here: EGX-MXM-A4500 | Embedded MXM GPU Modules | ADLINK (adlinktech.com)

 

What do you think? My laptop has RTX 1080 what also could be only MXM 3.0b compatible, but it's hard-to-get info as there are MXM 3.1 compatible RTX 1080s too, but PCI Gen 4 cards should work with PCI Gen 3 slots thought.

 

Some info about MXM ports: MXM Graphics Card Types, Models & MXM GPU List (graphicscardhub.com)

 

Also is there place here where people are sharing latest MSI laptop drivers? There once was this TechnologyGuide forum site where you could easily get latest MSI laptop drivers, but it got closed.

[Reciever]

On 10/5/2022 at 7:00 PM, Mtheta said:

As I started to look what other options there now are I found this card and according to my investigations it might work as upgrade for MSI GT75/73 laptops. 

 

Link here: EGX-MXM-A4500 | Embedded MXM GPU Modules | ADLINK (adlinktech.com)

 

What do you think? My laptop has RTX 1080 what also could be only MXM 3.0b compatible, but it's hard-to-get info as there are MXM 3.1 compatible RTX 1080s too, but PCI Gen 4 cards should work with PCI Gen 3 slots thought.

 

Some info about MXM ports: MXM Graphics Card Types, Models & MXM GPU List (graphicscardhub.com)

 

Also is there place here where people are sharing latest MSI laptop drivers? There once was this TechnologyGuide forum site where you could easily get latest MSI laptop drivers, but it got closed.

That would be Notebookreview, which this forum is the spiritual successor of.

[runix18]

On 10/6/2022 at 3:00 AM, Mtheta said:

As I started to look what other options there now are I found this card and according to my investigations it might work as upgrade for MSI GT75/73 laptops. 

 

Link here: EGX-MXM-A4500 | Embedded MXM GPU Modules | ADLINK (adlinktech.com)

 

What do you think? My laptop has RTX 1080 what also could be only MXM 3.0b compatible, but it's hard-to-get info as there are MXM 3.1 compatible RTX 1080s too, but PCI Gen 4 cards should work with PCI Gen 3 slots thought.

 

Some info about MXM ports: MXM Graphics Card Types, Models & MXM GPU List (graphicscardhub.com)

 

Also is there place here where people are sharing latest MSI laptop drivers? There once was this TechnologyGuide forum site where you could easily get latest MSI laptop drivers, but it got closed.

Aren't those cards without an Edp video output?

[ssj92]

Yes newest A4500 mxm cards do not support eDP. Need to use Optimus 

[runix18]

15 minutes ago, ssj92 said:

Yes newest A4500 mxm cards do not support eDP. Need to use Optimus 

Nice, so no compatibility with pure edp laptops.

[zerokool]

Oh this is nice to see im glad we have a new forum to chat on 🙂 im still running a rtx 4000 in my alienware 17 r1 . got it during the mning craze . its a good gpu but will not boost at all.

[1610ftw]

@Rengsey R. H. Jr. just had to check you are still on the forum, any news about this?

Apart from the missing heatsink did you ever get this to run long enough to see if the GPU would even be properly recognized in that GT75?

 

I would think this is the first step before putting a lot of effort in a cooling solution only to find out that it is not that easy to get the card to run properly in the GT75 that for its later models does not have an iGPU option to fall back on..