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    Clevo P150HM with NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by piranha22, May 27, 2014.

  1. piranha22

    piranha22 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone!

    When I "baked" the AMD Radeon HD 6970M of my Clevo notebook for the second time, it didn't come back to life but died completely instead. Now I have to find another GPU to bring my notebook back to life.

    I wrote to all Clevo resellers in Germany and searched a lot through this forum. I came to the result that the following GPUs should definitely work in the Clevo P150HM:

    • AMD Radeon HD 6970M
    • AMD Radeon HD 6990M
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

    Additionally, I found the following entry in the notebook's Owner's Lounge:
    Can anyone confirm that the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M works in this notebook?
    Would I have to flash the VBIOS (or something similar) if I buy one that is described as made for Lenovo, DELL or HP? For instance, I stumbled upon this one on eBay – it says it's made for HP, but it looks really similar to my old AMD Radeon HD 6970M on the pictures.
    Furthermore, does this GPU also require special heatsink units? Or could I just use the ones I already have?

    Thank you very much in advance.

    Cheers!
     
    piranha22, May 27, 2014
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    You need to make sure yet he pads cool the inductors and vrms, the card used must be from a sager/clevo machine to work.
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 27, 2014
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    piranha22 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Okay, and what's about the heatsinks? Are they universal for ATI and NVIDIA cards so I can use the ones from my old AMD Radeon HD 6970M?
     
    piranha22, May 28, 2014
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    You would want to get a heatsink from the latest series as they are better than the old ones and still fit.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 2, 2014
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    piranha22 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I ordered a new 2800M via eBay from Spain. It arrived last week. After I built it into my notebook, adjusted the thermal pads and applied some thermal paste, everything works great again!

    The card I ordered was declared as “made for HP” but works Plug-and-Play in the Clevo notebook – perfect! I use the standard driver for the 2800M supplied on NVIDIA’s website.

    Can someone suggest a website to me that shows the common idle temperature of this specific GPU? For me, it’s around 50 degrees celcius at the moment.
     
    piranha22, Jun 19, 2014
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    What are the load temperatures?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 20, 2014
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    I ran FurMark 1.12.0 after installing the new GPU. In the 15 minutes of the test, the temperature didn’t get above 89 degrees celsius.
     
    piranha22, Jun 20, 2014
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    That's fine. Just be careful with furmark on mobile hardware.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 20, 2014
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    am at your situation right now, i have a Clevo P150hm and the 6990m got fried.

    i got a deal of Quadro FX2800M for $85, my questions are:

    how yours performing, any issues ?

    how it performs at games (i play Dota 2)?

    anything i need to know ?

    thanks a lot
     
    masamra, Jun 20, 2015
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