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Bulwyf

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August 27th, 2020 22:00

Precision m4800 GPU Upgrade

I still have my old Precision m4800 as a daily use laptop, i just love it, i have done some upgrades to it as well, mine came with a 4k screen and the core i7 4940mx, i upgraded the ram sticks to 32gb at 2133mhz without any issue, and i upgraded the GPU to a Quadro M2200, as far as i'm concerned, to install drivers on a laptop with an upgraded gpu, the drivers must be modified first or they won't install, but this wasn't my case, i got the M2200 from ebay, and literally the upgrade was plug and play, no driver mod requiered and it's working flawlessly. 

Is there a way to know why it was so easy to upgrade? Perhaps the latest bios added support for GPU upgrade? as far as i'm concerned, the M2200 is the best possible upgrade for this model, but i wonder if a more powerful gpu can be installed. 

 

Any info regarding this will be much appreciated! 

  • JamesJAB1

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    Posted August 27th, 2020 23:00

    The M2200 is the most powerful Dell MXM-A card.  To go more powerful you would need to roll the dice and try for a HP Pascal or Turing card (Newer HP Nvidia cards do not have the Vbios on the MXM card)

    Same thing happened when i stuck an Alienware GTX 980M in my old Precision M6700.  Drivers installed with no mod needed.  When I went to upgrade to newer drivers they needed modding.

  • AdrianoA3

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    Posted October 21st, 2020 11:00

    @Bulwyf  Dell's official documentation shows M4800 supports ram clock up to 1866MHz.
    Could you confirm through any software if your ram set runs at 2133MHz?

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    Posted December 9th, 2020 19:00

    Thanks for the reply, since the GPU upgrade i have done several driver upgrades and a couple of new windows instalations, still the drivers work flawlessly with no inf mods. I got lucky i guess lol 

  • jb111

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    Posted December 9th, 2020 19:00

    Hi.  I also have a m4800 (only i7-4810MQ processor though).  May I ask what you paid for the video upgrade?  I'm seeing around $300 (which is more than I paid for this refurbished system)  Is the M2200 a motherboard thing or a card you slide into a slot?  Recently my system has been a challenge with games and anything video intensive.  I really wonder if loading the latest drivers/BIOS A26 contributed to this problem.  Thank you 

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    Posted December 9th, 2020 19:00

    My m2200 cost me $200 in ebay, had to ship it all the way to Chile lol, i got it cheap tho, i had to wait a couple of months searching this GPU until i found a good price for it since is kinda expensive, and no, is not soldered to the motherboard, is modular, so is like replacing your ram sticks, you just have to put it in the pci slot in your laptop. 

  • Bulwyf

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    Posted December 9th, 2020 19:00

    i'm sorry for the late reply, indeed the official DDR speed supported by the m4800 is 1866Mhz (only using 16gb) but that is probably due to the hardware limitations of that time, i'm currently running 32GB Kingston Hyper X RAM Kit at 2133Mhz with no issues

    Hope this screenshots of CPU-Z and task manager helps! 

    ramspd.pngramspd2.png

  • Shawn09345

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    Posted September 22nd, 2022 12:00

    I have installed the Quadro m2200 card into my Dell Precision m4800 and it shows in device manager. Only problem is it shows that it has reported problems (error code 43). I have Win11 but also tried 10 with the same result.

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    I have verified the card is good as I ran Linux with it and Linux was happy, also ran a render test on the web in linux. The fan kicked on and I could feel the heat coming from the gpu cooler, telling me the gpu was working. Kinda stumped because I thought this was just supposed to work

  • _Hegazy_

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    Posted October 16th, 2022 20:00

    now u r win or linux ?
    and did the gpu run good ?

  • Shawn09345

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    Posted October 17th, 2022 07:00

    I was having issues as well. My solution was using regular thermal paste, as I was attempting to use liquid metal. Once I replaced it traditional thermal paste it fired right up after driver install. You want to download the drivers on NVIDIA's website, dells driver installer encountered issues. It is under Quadro/RTX mobile in the driver install page. Hope this helps!

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