Best GPU option for M570RU?

hey guys,

I was a pretty frequent poster for awhile but have been too distracted with other things for quite awhile, so I'm out of touch on the latest and greatest for the not so latest Clevo/Sager

I've got a modded M570RU (I've put in an X9000 and the new backpanel, and updated to an 8800M-GTX and the new heat pipe), so my machine is a couple years old but still humming along great.

I recall from back in the day that the 280 and so on nv cards were physically okay for the M570RU (ie: MXM slot was okay and the thermal budget was okay), but just Clevo/Sager weren't releasing a BIOS for the machine that would support that card.. they wanted you to get a newer laptop.

Is that still the case?

I've got the 8800M-GTX, and the 9800 wasn't really a worthy upgrade. Is there a newer GPU I can use, to get significant graphical performance improvement?

Thank you for your advice.

jeff

 

I believe that is still the case yes.

However, one card that we have found to work that has upwards of the 96 shaders in the 8800/9800 is the quadro fx 3700m. This card has the same amount of shaders as the 280m and it does have bios support.

So this means that potentially if you have a gt 280m or 260m, if you flash it to use a 3700m vbios it will work, and although gpu-z will say it is 65nm it will actually be 55nm, and you can overclock it quite a bit over stock 3700m clocks.
Also you can just install the 260m/280m driver. I know, really circular and counter intuitive. But I'm really sure this can be done.

 

I want to see someone try a amd card, but the fx 3700m is the safe route.