I feel your pain bro, i have had an m17x r4 with 675m (which is a rebranded 580m) and i've had 3 of those infernal cards fry as well, and i was looking for a solution, upgrading to 680m was one of them, but it was expensive and came with a **** warranty.
So what i did was request an extended warranty (paid), but dell couldn't fix the laptop (after a few attempts to do so), so they offered me a swap, my m17x r4 for a brand new AW 17 R3 (16gb ram, i7 6700hq, gtx 965m, win 10 64-bit), which is what i have now.
First thing you should try is repaste the card and clean the heatsink, uninstall all nvidia software and install the one issued through dell support site.
In short, the 580m/675m are known for their unusual failure rates, a 680m is a good plug'n'play option, but if you're up to it you can attempt to put in a 780m (no more 3d though) or even a 980m [edit: 980m incompatible], though you'll need some software tweaks to get them working, a cheaper and more long term safe option is to try get an extended warranty (your laptop needs to be less than 5 years old starting from the time of purchase, and the damaged component mustn't have any signs of burns or breaks or other superficial signs of damage) and then just sell the thing later on when the warranty is 1-2 months from expiration (or attempt upgrading, but at this point it's better to get a more modern laptop)
All this is assuming the first solution doesn't work.
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