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    Eurocom 680M for sale, $790 (ebay link)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Mobius 1, Jul 4, 2012.

  1. Mobius 1

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    For those who wants a GTX 680M 4GB

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M (Kepler); 4GB DDR5;1344 CUDA Cores; MXM 3.0b; VGA MODULE | eBay

    $790 isn't bad, take a look at laptopmonkey, they ask for $1200

    EDIT: 5482741 found the cheaper 680M directly trough eurocom's website

    http://web.eurocom.com/EC/ecu_model_config1(1,225,0)



    A word though, I don't know if a Eurocom card is a CLEVO card. Some alienware users have trouble with eurocom cards and didn't have problems with CLEVO cards.

    If somebody have somehow managed to do this in a MS-16F3 (NOT GT-60), please post here.
     
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    It's $725 with cheaper shipping on Eurocom's site.
     
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    Mind giving a link? I can't find the page on eurocom's website
     
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    Quadro K5000M which essentially is a GTX 680M:
    $2695

    Holy Moly :eek:
     
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    eurocom always overprice everything. but they do negotiate prices and do price matching IF YOU ASK.
     
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    I wonder if you can just flash the 680M into a K5000M, since it's the same?


    Nice I will put this up in OP
     
    Mobius 1, Jul 5, 2012
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    After the Geforce 6k series, they introduced hardware differences that prevented using the Quadro drivers. Some have managed to bypass that (you can find people on google claiming to have done so). By hardware, I do not mean in the GPU itself. The GPU, as has been stated here, is the exact same. I am not sure what nv did that prevents Quadro drivers from being installed. I do not have any experience myself - all my information is from reading this on forums a few months ago when I was curious about this exact same thing.
     
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    its more than just preventing drivers from installing...consumer kepler cards have been redesigned to be a pure gaming card. Nvidia has removed most of the gpgpu performance from them and pushed that onto the Quadros. These are hardware changes, not software. So even if you were able to turn the 680m into a quadro through drivers, the performance would be horrid for pro apps
     
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    nVIDIA, good way to scam people on quadro cards >_>
     
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    what you mean would be ..... IT IS! horrid in pro apps :mad:

    I dont have a 680m but do have a gtx680 desktop card. dont get me started on OpenCL speed for CS6 etc or worst of all fp64 performance for some rendering apps.
     
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    I wonder what makes the GTX series crap in pro apps, drivers maybe? Or is it hardware related (ECC memory, etc?)
     
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    it seems to be nothing more than the kepler architecture and possibly die modifications ( cutting specific lanes was common to stop gf-quadro mods a few years ago ) . in OpenCL even a 580 is 30-40% up, ok to be fair a 470 beats it.

    Im reading the k series quadros are a bit different die overall too but still lagging in fp64 and some apps. once work gets a unit with a k5000 i will know better

    cant be drivers we have modded quadro drivers that show and run. but same crappy performance.
     
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    Errr quite simply it's FP64 performance is 1/24th of its FP32 performance.
     
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    SmallLUX and many CAD type apps have nothing to do with fp64. it seems to be an overall dumbing down of GPGPU performance to add extra gaming performance.
     
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    Probably because of the overclock thread they saw here :D :D
     
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    $800 is very overpriced. since parts have limited availability the resellers take advantage of that.
    imo that card costs like $500 maximum to the reseller.
    I bet in a few months, if not weeks. the price will drop.
     
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