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Dell Precision M6600 Graphics Card Upgrade
Edited for accuracy :
This is for anyone that thought about going from any of the Nvidia Quadro 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, or 5010M cards to the Nvidia GTX 680M.
After hours and hours of trying different methods, and messing with and modding the inf file of the installer, I finally got the Nvidia drivers to work to make use of my GTX 680M..
Make sure your GTX 680M is a Dell part or the graphics bios would need to be modified via a flashing process as well, and that is a process not for the faint of heart.
Mine was a Dell part, all i needed to do was update the system bios to the latest offering, download the latest drivers from Nvidia, extract and add support for my video card and OS (Windows 10 Pro 64bit for me) to the inf file of the installer via this method(where it says at the bottom to add the device ID in the OS section of the inf file, you must add it to all three locations), disable automatic driver downloads on Windows 10, boot into Safe Mode and use DisplayDriverUninstaller to clean the system of previously installed display drivers, disable Signed Driver Enforcement via this method, reboot with SDE disabled and turn off wifi, then right click on the exe file in the extracted Nvidia driver file that contains the modified inf file and select "Run As Administrator". I did a custom install of only the Nvidia display driver.
Then when its done installing, reboot..
Hopefully this works for someone else wanting to go this route with a Precision M6600.
Unfortunately I have yet to get Optimus to work correctly, but I will keep trying and add that to my findings here if and when i am successful, and possibly make a more clear post to help others looking to do the same.
JLopez1979
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July 6th, 2019 00:00
Update: I still have yet to get Optimus to work with my new setup, but I have had success in some other test areas.
I have been successful in overclocking my GTX 680M 4Gb card from the stock 720Mhz to 800Mhz with relatively decent results.
Starting results for Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 were as follows:
FPS : 45.1
Score : 1135
Min FPS : 7.9
Max FPS : 91.5
Max GPU Temp : 68°C
Max CPU Temp : 74°C
Ending Results :
FPS : 47.7
Score : 1201
Min FPS : 21.7
Max FPS : 101.0
Max GPU Temp : 71°C
Max CPU Temp : 75°C
Games Tested So Far : Far Cry Primal on Max Settings, The Crew2 on High Settings, Galactic Conquest on High Settings, Need For Speed Undercover on Max Settings (All with no stutter). Not the best lineup, but enough to put this GPU to the test.
Still trying to get Optimus to work. I'll continue to update here with the results of that.
Olderlaptops01
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March 29th, 2023 09:00
There are actually some really good AMD gpus that you could upgrade to like mentioned above there's the AMD FirePro m6100, but a much more powerful option is the AMD Radeon HD 7970m is probably the best gpu this laptop you could handle. Though, this card having only 2 gigs of vram if all you want is more vram nvidia cards will be the way to go (keep in mind that the Nvidia cards that have 4gb of vram aren't very close to being as powerful as the 7970m)