Full specs: Dell Precision M4700
CPU: Intel i7 3940QM @ 2.70 GHz
GPU: Intel Graphics 4000 + Nvidia Quadro M2000M
RAM: 24gb(2x8gb) (2x4gb) DDR3
Storage: 256GB Cruical SSD CT250MX500SSD
OS: Windows 11 Pro.
-USING A EXTERNAL COOLING FAN FOR GPU HIGH LOAD TEMPS.
The HDD was upgraded to a 256gb SSD.
The Ram was Upgraded to 24gb.
For MXM type A 3.0, i had my sights set on two cards to replace my amd firepro 4000 1GB GPU… That was the M2200 (~90$), and M2000M ($40). Both are 4GB GPU cards, there is minimal difference in preformance, but double the price. I went with the M2000M for the M4700.
Since i did not want to remove the laptop from its casing for the cooling under high loads, I am using an external air conditioning fan, that is mounted about an inch below the laptop on the laptop stand.
I used Artic-MX6 thermal paste for this M2000M.
It keeps my GPU @ 35°c idle with fan on, 50°c idle with no fan on.
Games were getting the temp to 92°-93°C at Max load before i used my external fan.
After the fan, i have been seen consistant temps of 75°-85° during full load. (Pubg, Hogwarts Legacy, Baulders Gate 3) Not any temp recorded over 85 yet.
Pictures of my machine
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12OvjzektVfkD8yaMTQQp27ZBittTmm25
Thanks for checking out my low budget gaming Laptop
If you are interested in the exact file for the M2000M driver, i will have a download link below for your M4700. I had the biggest trouble with Nvidia Auto installer, as well as manually retrying driver after driver after driver. I believe it could be because i’m on Win 11, im unsure. Here is the driver from my computer exported working on Win 11 after countless attempts to get it to work on mine.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12dNqArQRy1lA4JQwPXdF39wvkdLtO-mR/view?usp=drivesdk
Congrats you followed a tutorial on NotebookReview forums.
I have a ZBook 17 G2 (K610M originally) that I put a P4200 in, you’re not special.
Thanks for your contribution! Instead of being a dick, you can actually research that MXM gpu replacements are not a guarantee when replaced. It can be a bios error, or there can also be that there is no onboard graphics, to display the screen image between card swaps. Thanks for coming by. Im over here uploading drivers for a old card for win 11, and you gotta be a dick. This is the only tutorial like mine, what an ass you are.
Instead of being a dick, you can actually research that MXM gpu replacements are not a guarantee when replaced.
Yes, I know, I’ve been doing this longer than you have.
I had an M4000M and 980M in my EliteBook 8770W and put an M2200M in my 8540p.
It can be a bios error, or there can also be that there is no onboard graphics, to display the screen image between card swaps.
The BIOS “errors” are actually whitelists put in place by the manufacturer and can be bypassed with an EEPROM programmer.
Lack of onboard graphics can be fixed by getting a laptop with eDP as LVDS requires iGPU and a mux.
Im over here uploading drivers for a old card for win 11, and you gotta be a dick.
I’ve had 342.xx on my Mediafire for 7 years for the 8540p GPU swap. Like I said, you’re not special, quit acting like you are, people know more about this than you do. Kindly fuck off.
This is the only tutorial like mine, what an ass you are.
Wrong on so many levels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSM66zC3r-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFTHO8pyIKc
You.
Aren’t.
Fucking.
Special.