Alienware 17 haswell Pascal upgrade

[Csupati]

Hi, im able to get an AW17 with a 765m , and lvds screen. If i want to upgrade it with a P3000 . Im gonna need an edp display and unlocked bios , or its simply works in optimus and lvds? Other solution is, if i recieve a wrecked m6800 , ill put the k5100m to it , its not the best choice but it will give more gpu performance . 

[Maxware79]

The P3000 should install just like a 10 series card. It will work best on the eDP display but it should also work fine on the LVDS display by piggybacking off the Intel graphics. You will usually find a small performance drop with this though. 

I haven't tried a P3000 myself so maybe someone else can confirm this. 

[Csupati]

21 hours ago, Maxware79 said:

The P3000 should install just like a 10 series card. It will work best on the eDP display but it should also work fine on the LVDS display by piggybacking off the Intel graphics. You will usually find a small performance drop with this though. 

I haven't tried a P3000 myself so maybe someone else can confirm this. 

thank you, ive have some strange thing going on with the 765m pics attached, its idle. Maybe the laptop is turning off the dgpu or its somehow faulty? its claims that if the card is present the fans are going 100% but its not going .

[Csupati]

NVM if i put load on it its working as it shoud be boosting to 901 mhz instead of 863mhz in valley windowed

[Maxware79]

If you're having weird fan behaviour then make sure you don't have Support Assist installed and remove/disable all the Dell Vault services. 

[Csupati]

After a fresh win 10 install,  still showing 100% fan at gpu z , but the bios  is handle them  correctly.

[Csupati]

Finally today arrived the p3000 , pair with intel hd in optimus the card work A08 stock bios and lvds