Hello,
I have been using my Dell Precision M6600 for the last 4 years now. for both gaming and render work (I'm an architecture student). Since a couple week my laptop started to crash, always referring to the graphic driver (nvlddmkm.sys, stop code 0x116) as the reason behind the crashes. After some testing and trying to solve the problem (drivers/memtest/hard-drive tests etc.), it seems to be an hardware problem; the graphic card is dying.
Gladly the graphic card in my laptop is not soldered to the motherboard, so i only have to replace the graphic card. I'm out of warranty and the graphic card i was using (Nivida quadro 3000m) isn't the best anymore, so I was looking for an upgrade, since the graphic card was always the worst part of my laptop.
But here stops my knowledge about upgrading a laptop GPU. I know its upgradable (there are a couple topics about people that putted gtx 670m/gtx 680m in their machine), but they said they had to flash their BIOS and that they were running in some problems.
So my question is if you guys got some tips for me in to looking for an upgrade? I mainly render some small simple things with this laptop (use the uni's pcs for larger/detailed renders). The games I currently play can all be played on medium/high settings with the quadro 3000m, but some games that will be released soon (sc2;legacy of the void and xcom2) might have some problems running on this old card.
So what card would you advise me? Stick with the quadro 3000m, because it will 100% work with my current setup, or upgrade to a new quadro one (don't know if that will create some problems) or upgrade to a GTX, considering i don't render that much. My budget is around 250 euro's.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
My laptop specs
- Dell Precision M6600
- Windows 10
- Bios Version 15
- Nvidia Quadro 3000m
- Intel I7-2920XM
- 16GB RAM
I have been using my Dell Precision M6600 for the last 4 years now. for both gaming and render work (I'm an architecture student). Since a couple week my laptop started to crash, always referring to the graphic driver (nvlddmkm.sys, stop code 0x116) as the reason behind the crashes. After some testing and trying to solve the problem (drivers/memtest/hard-drive tests etc.), it seems to be an hardware problem; the graphic card is dying.
Gladly the graphic card in my laptop is not soldered to the motherboard, so i only have to replace the graphic card. I'm out of warranty and the graphic card i was using (Nivida quadro 3000m) isn't the best anymore, so I was looking for an upgrade, since the graphic card was always the worst part of my laptop.
But here stops my knowledge about upgrading a laptop GPU. I know its upgradable (there are a couple topics about people that putted gtx 670m/gtx 680m in their machine), but they said they had to flash their BIOS and that they were running in some problems.
So my question is if you guys got some tips for me in to looking for an upgrade? I mainly render some small simple things with this laptop (use the uni's pcs for larger/detailed renders). The games I currently play can all be played on medium/high settings with the quadro 3000m, but some games that will be released soon (sc2;legacy of the void and xcom2) might have some problems running on this old card.
So what card would you advise me? Stick with the quadro 3000m, because it will 100% work with my current setup, or upgrade to a new quadro one (don't know if that will create some problems) or upgrade to a GTX, considering i don't render that much. My budget is around 250 euro's.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
My laptop specs
- Dell Precision M6600
- Windows 10
- Bios Version 15
- Nvidia Quadro 3000m
- Intel I7-2920XM
- 16GB RAM