Successful MXM GPU Upgraded Laptops

Enterprise version of RX480.

Announced over two years ago. I have never seen one for sale anywhere, ever.

 

If you are interested https://world.taobao.com/item/540561542301.htm?spm=a312a.7700714.0.0.E5CKoe#detail

Edit:

It appears those two cards are the ones linked in almost every post about it hahaha

 

MSI GT72VR with Quadro P5000
https://twitter.com/EurocomTech/status/956202374770692096

 

A little over 1k for extras with it not bad

 

would this produce more FPS per $ than a 1070m? does it draw more power than a 1070m?

 

I think the 1070m would definitely draw more. The cards are configured with more speed.

 

Can anyone here explain me somethings!

MXM was not only meant to make repairs easier, but also to male upgrades easier(atleast from msi and eurocom), then why in the hell world are these cards so expensive??

I mean they are more then double thecprice of full pciex16 cards!

Just why?

@Papusan @Mr. Fox @Eurocom Support

 

Supply and demand basically.

There's a lower volume sold, meaning higher development costs per board sold. And sales volume is continually dropping with the rise of BGA soldered stuff all the way up to the halo 1080sli products like the GX800 and P21X.

The boards are made by OEMs (who can control pricing and availability), not independents. Cross brand compatibility is not engineered into the boards because the OEMs only need to care about compatibility with their own laptops. Which is silly, because the micro STX form factor is all but dead because of the unavailability of affordable MXM GPUs, none of them obviously want to bother selling single GPUs.

10 series saw nvidia drop the reference board design so OEMs designed their own, which meant compatibility went through the floor, and with 1080s they raced to outdo each other by cramming more power circuitry onto PCBs which needed to be bigger to fit it all. Up til then Clevo MXM GPUs were like the "universal donor" - they would go in anything. Now because of the bigger pcb size they fit in nothing else, not even their own earlier models

... Although, with the crypto stupidity driving up the cost of desktop GPUs, at the moment MXM prices actually aren't looking as bad as usual.

 

P170EM

upgraded my eurocom 980m 8gb to eurocom/msi 1060 6gb

 

to upgrade to the p170em gtx 1060,what you need?

 

see my 1060 P170EM thread soon.


preliminary thread document:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...nstall-mods-nvidia-inf-mod-with-photo.813384/

 

Hello? I'd like to upgrad my Surfuss Book GPewww
/s

 

Hi guys ! I just bought a new P5000 dissassembly from Zbook G4 . I am running a Covet M6700 with M5000M + windows 10 , and it run just perfertly
Last night , i tried to assembly it ( P5000 ) but my M6700 refused to detect it . The power was on , the fan is rolled but nothing happen !
Here is my Vbios P5000 :" 86.04.3A.00.15"
My question is , how to make it work now guys !? Plz help me !
Have I must flash it to ES bios ?
Can anyone give me the vbios that able to run on my M6700 Covet ?!

P/s : Thks to read my asking ^^

 

what panel display?

 

Premere colour , ips RGB bro

 

could you use aida64extreme? that shows exactly your panel ID

 

I am outside now . I will do it later and post it here soon . Thx for helping me

 

you are welcome!

 

I sold my AW 17 R5 even though the laptop was good with my GTX 970M for 725$ that I bought and upgraded before but I just bought EVGA SC17 with 1070 and new everything with 2 year warranty for only 1100$ with no tax for 400$ upgrade its worth it.

I think buying new GPUs for old laptops is not worth it at all a MXM Geforce 1070 will cost you 750$ that will also cost you time and the need to always mod the drivers is not worth it .

Rip LGA everything we are going to miss you

F BGA man

 

You got a great deal there helped by strong resale on the AW and a cheap sc17.

For many, the driver mod is very quick if not already done by j95, and changeover cost (assuming a swap not a dead GPU replacement) is not that high due to strong resale of MXM boards.

 

Yep , you are right I got lucky with selling my laptop.

And again with buying the new one .

Man I just hate BGA at least desktops still aren't thank God

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thanks!


AW M5550




Fujitsu Amilo M3438G


Amilo Pi 1536

 

Clevo P370EM with 2x MSI 1070 in SLI works.

Other than cutting the frame to fit the odd shaped cards and me having to work around not having an internal display (no LVDS out with Pascal) - it was almost too easy.

 

Nice glad to finally have some company.

The panel and eDP cable from the 3D version P370EM3 plug right in. The panel is the same as was in some Asus 3D models at the time (G53SW or G54 or something) so searching for those yielded more/better results in ebay; also the 3D display cable from the P170HM works if you can't find stock of the P370EM3 cable

And let me know how you go with drivers

 

I "upgraded" my eos15s-3 clevo p157sm to a 7970m the other day.

System specs:windows 10 pro
8gb crucial

 

Clevo GTX 1080 MXM for 695 euros

https://www.ebay.it/itm/CLEVO-GTX-1...299790?hash=item5907f0a14e:g:-1YAAOSwJtdaRXhj

 

This wouldnt work on a zbook would it

 

NVIDIA Quadro p5000 ✔ n17e-q5 MXM ✔ 16gb V-RAM ✔ HP ✔ Dell ✔ Clevo ✔ FUJITSU Lenovo ✔ for 1475 euros
https://www.ebay.it/itm/382386218513?ViewItem=&item=382386218513

 

Clevo P377SMA upgraded with Nvidia Quadro P5000
https://twitter.com/EurocomTech/status/966409649258926080

 

Um what? Even a 980M scores over 14K, at higher settings no less (Ultra instead of High quality):

Spoiler

And basically tied in Valley:

Spoiler

So either that Quadro P5000 (full GP104 chip!) is throttling like a mofo. Or Unigine really is that much slower in OpenGL than in D3D11?

On the other hand, shouldn't Quadro drivers be optimized for higher OpenGL performance than typical GeForce drivers?

 

https://twitter.com/EurocomTech/status/967093173129482246
quadro cards are made for software like solidworks or nx, they are more reliable than geforces


here a gtx1080

what score for your 980m?

 

This doesn't answer my question...

 

Quadro card are "optimized" (supposedly) for CAD and "professional" application (and crippled for games). Geforce card are purposely crippled in order to sell overpriced professional GPU...
But in the end, aren't we talking about the same architecture and raw power ?

 

Some years years ago HP produced a unique laptop, the HP HDX 9000 series (the "Dragon"), which has a 20.1 inch fully articulated, adjustable display, amazing speakers, and a great keyboard. The design weakness was the underpowered Nvidia 8800M GTS, which has a tendency to fail after three years or so, due to heat. It should have been recalled along with the defective 8400-8600 series, as the defect is the same.

After many attempts to upgrade the MXM card, a technician figured out that the LVDS cable was inverted relative to the typical laptop layout. By reversing it he installed an Nvidia Quadro 3700M into, and it works. It processes video as it should, but the WUXGA screen, which is an 8-bit panel, appears dimmer, or less intense than it should, giving the screen a dull appearance, and it's been established that the 3700M is only putting out 6 Bits to the screen, which would give it the symptoms described. The Quadro is capable of outputting 8 bit and above. A lower than required bit output is a plausible explanation for the dim screen.

I was unsuccessful in
reaching a laptop guru/modder from the Thinkpad forum in South Korea and a similar Chinese website who knows how to change the bit output on this card, but I recently found out from a technician at a large PC company that the LVDS cable may still be the culprit, with one or more pairs of wires in the LVDS reversed, reversing signal and return. This would definitely drop the bit output, which, again, would cause the dull screen.

Yet another recent observation is that one of the pins in the Quadro 3700M is getting 2.4 V charge when implemented in both the Thinkpad W700 and HP Elitebok 8730, but receives no charge in the Dragon.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Being 90% there still isn't being there.

MA

 

Clevo P150SM-A upgraded with Quadro P5000
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/quadro-p5000-with-clevo-p150sm-a-lvds.814127/

 

No inventive MXMers out there with ideas about this?

 

It seems a fairly difficult question. Just up for the most erudites and experienced out here. I'm not one of them sorry :')

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Phoa! 16lbs laptop with a swivel top. Just looking at the reviews and info about it. I would modify the **** out of it and put a zbook motherboard into it. Try looking for a 4k matt screen too that size

 

Thanks for replying, guys. I just had to convince myself I wasn't on a deserted atoll.

I agree that a motherboard swap is the ideal solution, with one tech suggesting not a Z Book, but an Asus Ultrabook with a decent CPU and GPU (970?), as the size of the Ultrabook MB is small enough to permit good cooling solutions.

I don;t know if there is a 20.1 4K screen available, 16 x 10. Still, the screen is fully articulated, meaning it can be adjusted distance-wise and in terms of angle.

I just need to find someone that would attempt the MB upgrade,

Help!

 

I dont have one :-( but its such an old unit i dont see why i wouldnt try it if i didnt

 

It may be old, but it's unique, with a full size keyboard and Altec Lansing speakers, including mini-subwoofers.

There's a bunch of people hanging on to theirs, and would be supportive if someone could do the swap. One technician said it was doable, but his business increased...so....

 

I've noticed there's a bit of a community for those old beasts and that's probably where you'll get your answer, from someone who knows the HDX 9000's specific MXM slot schematics or can look them up. Even when there are electrical standards like MXM 3.0b (assuming the HDX isn't something older I have a vague memory the 2600XT was a half size card) OEMs sometimes do their own thing with using extra pins for their own purposes or sometimes just flat out mess things up and choose the hacky cheap fix like putting the other end on backwards as well in two-wrongs-make-it-right style ;p

I think the 4K panel would definitely have an issue with display bandwidth unless you can somehow rig up DP-out processed directly from the card

But given the age of the motherboard I'd be considering something more modern with things like SATA 3/mSATA/M.2, PCIe 3.0, eDP capable of enough lanes for 4K/60hz output, socketed components - I'm guessing an Acer 970M setup is all BGA. Maybe even a desktop mITX with horizontal PCIe riser mount or microSTX, picoPSU, but then hooking up things like the audio and keyboard (and their drivers) might become a problem.

Re the 6-bit/8-bit issue is there a brightness/contrast alteration you can find somewhere like in nvidia control panel to straight up multiply the 0-64 range to 0-256? (Is the backlight is fully lit?)

 

The original technician who manged to get the 3700M working 90% did try all Nvidia controls, to no avail.

Forums have their own unique dynamics, and the concept of a MB swap was of recent origin, and late in the arc of that thread. So actually, taking this up on a new forum, where people can look with fresh eyes is best.

I don't think that 4K is at all necessary...a 20.1 WUXGA laptop screen with a last gen Asus Ultrabook MB, would take the Dragon to a pretty modern era.

It's actually a fully portable desktop.

 

Id love to see it modernized with great specs. If i get a bit of euros extra after bills i will buy one on ebay at the lowest specs because i will put atleast an i7 in it.

 

It would be great if you would join the fray. Changing the motherboard is likely the best approach, because HP likes to fiddle around with non-standard , proprietary approaches with some of its laptops, like this one. People have tried to upgrade the CPU to quadcore and ran into difficulties.

I picked up a mint HP 8740, and everything on it can be upgraded! So HP indulges in schizophrenic behavior.

The WUXGA screen is beautiful at HD res, and having a desktop that you can take anywhere is amazing. The display is also available at WSXGA+, but I wouldn't bother with that screen if you balk at HD.

 

I know a motherboard expert who works with low level diodes and such and will enlist his help. I want to make this a beast. First off time to go looking for the dragon

 

Fantastic! You can get a pristine, top spec one now for little money if you're a good buyer.

Great news!

 

Of course you can get a different 20 inch laptop (the Predatora) for only $9000!!!

The Dragon has the added benefit of having a 16 x 10 display.

 

Haha yeah i seen that and although i love the curved screen on it and configuration. I am not sure i like the option of carrying an extra 10lbs weight with me lol

 

And for $9000 you could stay at every castle in Ireland, study Gaelic on Inishmore, and buy the Blarney Stone (or at least rent it). And yes, I did kiss the Blarney Stone...really.

Plus the Dragon's screen is fully adjustable and ergonomic...the only such design ever implemented except for one n Ultrabook of years gone by. (The Flybook?)