Nvidia Quadro K5100m in Precision m6700?

Hi Kingarthur86,

Thanks for the post, the K5100m card has only been validated by our engineers to work in the M6800 system I’m afraid, so I’m not sure how stable it would be if installed in an M6700. For cards compatible with this system you can check those with available drivers on the support site :  http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/precision-m6700/drivers  

nVIDIA Quadro 1000M/2000M/3000M/4000M/5010M/K1000M/K2000M/K4000M/K5000M Graphics 

AMD FirePro M4000/M6000 Graphics

If replacing the Video card in the M6700 you would need to remove the:

a. battery

b. base cover

c. keyboard trim

d. keyboard

e. optical drive

f. primary and secondary hard drive

g. palm rest

h. video-card fan

i. video-card heat sink

j. heatsink

Then remove the screws that secure the video card to the chassis allowing it to be interchanged.

For full details of the process check out the service manual here : http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_precision_mobile/precision-m6700_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf

Hope it helps!

Thank you for answer,

Like you said k5100m was validated only with precision m6700, but I've already read about few users who successfully installed k5000m on precision m6600. I guess quadro k5000m was only validated with dell m6700, but it works with m6600 as well. Obviously you have to do some software updates, usually bios.
I would appreciate answers from users who upgraded their GPU like that and information how it works/how hard was that. I've got an occasion to buy k5100m for a good price, so it's really important for me. Especially if I plan next upgrade 5 years later.

EDIT:

I have decided to don't start with k5100m. So, now I would like to upgrade my laptop to k5000m and I have few questions. At the moment I have AMD FirePro m6000 in my laptop and I read that there is a dedicated heatsink to k5000m. Can anyone confirm this information? Is there any difference between these two heatsinks? I know there are two different heatsinks for CPU - one of them has two pipes(for XM cpus) and another one has only one pipe, but i couldn't find any information about gpu heatsinks.

I have also a question about thermal paste and how to put in on k5000m. Unlike the firepro m6000, there is a chip and a square around it(picture below):

Where do I have to put thermal paste? Only on the chip in the middle or on that square around as well? What about those chips around gpu processor? What do you think about gelid extreme thermal paste?

You can upgrade your m6700 graphics card to the k5100m, I have tried that before and the performance achieved is similar to that of the default m6800. However, you first have to make sure your processor is not an intel extreme edition ( e.g i7 3920xm or i7 3940xm -- I had a very bad experience while co-using the i7-3940xm with the k5100m until i changed the processor to i7-3740qm). Secondly, you have to modify the .inf file of the k5100m driver package since the pci bridge reference of the m6700 is not listed in the k5100m driver info file.

It works like magic possibly if you're having the following processors ----> i7 3630qm, i7 3720qm, i7 3740qm, i7 3820qm and i7 3840qm

hope you will try.

Thank You for this post,

I decided to install k5000m some time ago. According to Your reply I couldn't install k5100m, because i have 3920xm processor. Very helpful information anyway.

To SIRWATT. Thank you for posting this information. That was exactly what I was looking for. I just recently purchased Dell k5100m for my second m6700, I have two processors to use with it, I was thinking of putting 3920xm in it, but after reading your post will make it 3720qm (that's the other one I have), also good to know that 3840qm could work with k5100m also. My question to you is about the driver you've used with k5100m on m6700. Would you be so generous to share that modified driver you've used, or give me a step by step instruction on how to do it myself (have no previous experience of modifying drivers). Thanks for your time and info.

For the case of you processor i7 3920xm, you can use it with the k5100m if you're cool with excessive noise (from the fan) and heat. The processor may occasionally throttle (perhaps due to excessive heat or inadequate power supply) , even with that the performance of the processor will be within range of an i7 3720qm to an i7 3820qm. So if you're cool with noise and heat, it will be fine.

NB: wattage difference between i7 (3720qm, 3740qm, 3820qm, 3840qm) and i7 (3920xm,3940xm) = 55-45 = 10 watt 

Put K5100m in my m6700 Covet that has 3940XM in it. Modified original driver as it was kindly directed by SiRWaTT and the card works like a charm, temperature stays low. Thanks again to SiRWaTT for all his time and effort he made to make this card work in m6700. 

Do you think the k5100m would work in the Dell m6600

? I currently have the 3000m, but want to upgrade it and this video card was one of the cards I was looking at.  I'm just wandering about my cpu  i7(2860qm): would I run into problems? It is close to the 3720 in performance, but I don't know what else to look at.

I've tried GTX780m in my m6600 about a year and a half ago  with 4 Gb memory made for DELL which is close to K5100m on it's specs. All in all wasn't able to go beyond bios with it, even though it was passing all the tests in BIOS,instant blue screens on the windows start up, brought it to the local computer repair store, where they tried to use modified drivers to make it work, with no success after a week of trying and failing. So I ended up with Quadro 5010m in it. I've read that some of the guys have success in using K5000m in m6600, I have K5000m in one of my m6700, never tried in my m6600 though.

I believe the generational gap between your laptop (with intel i7 2860qm) and the Nvidia quadro K5100m is too big. For instance, chipset requirements (ou physical PCI bridge technology) might be overwhelmingly different from the one needed for the k5100m for an optimal performance. Example the chipset requirements of your laptop or the expansion option of the intel i7 2860qm) is a PCI Express Revision 2 whilst the one recommended for the k5100m is PCI Express Revision 3--the same one Dell's previous and latest mobile workstations are having or at least any 3rd and 4th generation intel i7 processor fully supports by default).

Even though the K5100m can work on a PCI Express Revision 2 system, the trade off does not worth it: it's more expedient to use a k5000m which bridges the two (can work effectively in a PCI 2 and/or effectively in a PCI 3).

If you still want to use a k5100m despite the trade offs, you can still go ahead. You can use the second method of how to transmogrify genuine dell k5100m driver (it may work fine but expect not too excellent performance due to chipset or pci technology limitations)

Try Transmogrification method 2; You may get lucky.

And oh! don't forget, in case you wanna try, get a 240watt dell adapter

Hope it works

I had an M6700 and currently have an m6800.  Both have or had the K5100 without problems based on the card.  However, make sure you only try the Dell nVidia driver.  The one from nVidia will give you tons of problems.

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