Dell Precision m6700 upgrade-ability?

thanks so much your infor.

 

The SX7100 is a dead end as I bought one last month and not even my m18x r2 would boot it, tried that card in the m6600 and the m17x r2 just be sure and all three machines didn't work. The conclusion that the lvds and edp functionality was disabled as this is a server part rather than a normal mxm card which is a shame as Tesla cards are known to work after modding drivers.

 

Tesla cards only work with graphics switching enabled — the Intel GPU drives the internal display and the Tesla cards can be used for rendering. External outputs (HDMI/DP) do not work.
M6600 and M6700 do not support graphics switching with AMD cards. M6800 does.

 

Just get any 37x0QM or 38x0QM CPU and overclock it by 400MHz, as for gpu, a 980M is a good choice, for ram it will not clock down to 1600MHz, it will use the highest memory frequency available, if your IMC (integrated memory controller) can't handle 2133MHz ram then you need to bought 1866MHz ram or replace the cpu.
For the monitor I would recommand you to stick with the LVDS 1080p as we only have experience with the stock "3D screen" 120Hz and a few 4k monitor but these are expensive.

edit : yeah tesla card can't output video, there are a lot of component missing on the card, it's not a good idea when your laptop come with a DisplayPort output that can be used on any "gaming" monitor to buy a tesla for gaming

 

How does the WX7100 behave in games? it's worth it? on taobao it costs 1,150 yuan (about 180-200 dollars)...
I want to put this card in my 8770w, I see that it is theoretically possible, but ... did someone try to run benchmark tests? I would like to see the results ....

 

Same shader count as the RX480, and more or less same clocks, so, expect around RX480 performance, maybe assume 10% slower.

 

If you could get it working, it would perform as good as a 1060

 

I have been out of the Dell M6700 scene for a few years now. Is there an unlocked BIOS for CPU overclocking now? Can you please provide more info? Thanks.

 

You can modify EFI variables in the BIOS