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    Is there any way or work around P870DMG

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Damin, Jun 2, 2019.

  1. Damin

    Damin Notebook Consultant

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    So I was wondering if there is a work around to get the larger GTX 1060 ( The one work with the power connection ) in the P870DMG
     

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    Fitting it is not the issue (for a single card) iirc, it's the power connector.
     
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    The wiring is the easiest part. May also need a BIOS mod. The P870DM-G would not boot with the 1080 until @Prema added support for Pascal to the P870DM-G BIOS.

    The hardest part is building a heat sink that fits and works well enough to cool the GPU. The 1080 really needs a vapor chamber to run cool enough to perform properly, and the P870DM3 vapor chamber cannot be modded to fit the P870DM-G chassis. You need the T-shaped 1080 heat sink to start with (which never actually cooled a 1080 well enough to be happy with in the machine it was engineered for) and mod it by desoldering the heat pipes from the cold plate, reshaping them to fit the P870DM-G chassis, then soldering them back onto the cold plate. This was real pain in the butt and I would never go to the trouble again since the heat sink wasn't effective enough before modding. It was a fun experiment as an exercise in novelty to demonstrate what Clevo could have easily done if they were not so hell bent on screwing their customers out of simple GPU upgrades. But, in all honesty, you'd be way better off just selling it to someone content with Maxwell performance and buying a nice used machine made for the newer GPU.
     
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