HP Elitebook MXM upgrade?

[Adam Young]

Hi all,

I have an Elitebook 8570w (i7 3740QM, 16Gb, 500GB SSD, Quadro 2000m).
I have a Workstation Desktop and am now more in VR than Graphics modeling so have less of a need for my 2000m.
I know I can swap out graphics cards.. But I've heard that there is a white-list due to stability guarantees. And then there are storys of people putting a GTX 680M in and only doing a few registry mods..

Can anyone give me more information about my upgrade options?

 

[R_1]

the whitelist takes far more than registry mods to get around. your system may have the RSA signed BIOS in which case there is nothing you can do but buy a card from HP. the BIOS, upon booting, checks the hardware against its list. if the parts report the wrong numbers then the system will not boot. the registry is in windows many steps further down the boot trail. if your BIOS is not RSA signed then maybe you can find someone to modify the BIOS file for you, allowing the use of the card you want to use.

The whitelist has nothing to do with stability, it is about locking you into only getting parts from them at higher than market prices.
if you buy a card on the whitelist, it may not be the approved HP model in cases of cards with many revisions. with the whitelist the only path is through HP and then only the parts they tell you you need. too much like apple for me.

 

[Adam Young]

Thanks for the quick response!

I think it's rather stupid that a PC with an MXM slot is restricted to 3 GPUs! I agree that it's appleish.. 4000$ PC that you can't modify...