Mr.Toolbox Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Hello i'm considering upgrading my msi 683 which has a 560m card to a 675m. I want to make sure that its going to work properly, so im asking; will it work? Is there something i need to do for it to work or do i simply plug it in? I found a few 675 cards in the uk but there are a few different versions; one with 4gb and one with 2gb and i dont know which one to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedexultra Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 The 16F2/680(3) have been confirmed to work with: nVidia: 460/560/570/580/670/675MAMD: 5870/6970/6990/7970M 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xonar Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 @Mr.Toolbox True -- Sandy Bridge MSI's don't have Optimus, so high-end Fermi is as good as it gets with Nvidia. Best upgrade for GT683 is 7970m with a modified heatsink. @Fedexultra I remember seeing that somewhere... haha, oh wait that was me! Good quote though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simonius007 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 @Mr.Toolbox True -- Sandy Bridge MSI's don't have Optimus, so high-end Fermi is as good as it gets with Nvidia. Best upgrade for GT683 is 7970m with a modified heatsink. @Fedexultra I remember seeing that somewhere... haha, oh wait that was me! Good quote though. But why we can not use GTX680m in MSI GT683?? I can not find any answer all over the internet(( Is it matter of BIOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xonar Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 But why we can not use GTX680m in MSI GT683?? I can not find any answer all over the internet((Is it matter of BIOS?Partially BIOS support. It's a matter of not having Optimus. You get AMD support instead though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooleRnax Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 And what about GT780DX? Can i upgrade GPU there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inches Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Probably going to be very similar. There aren't many differences in the GT680 and GT780. Only main difference that I know of are minor difference on the board, one of which being support for backlit keyboards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omega939 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The 16F2/680(3) have been confirmed to work with: nVidia: 460/560/570/580/670/675MAMD: 5870/6970/6990/7970M<!-- google_ad_section_end -->Can you show me the link? Because according to this forum it's the opposite of what you said.MSI GT683R + Clevo GTX670M = blank screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismo Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 It will work. take it with 2 gigs of memory. You may have to update the BIOS on the video card. I have a MSI GT 680 and I upgraded to the GTX 560m GPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omega939 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 i mean the 670m gpu not the 560m card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xonar Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 670M = 570M = Fermi = non-Optimus. It works. People have even flashed their 570M's into 670M's for kicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moka Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 nvidia 675m - works great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kero8 Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Hi. Does anyone have 680m? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xonar Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Hi. Does anyone have 680m?Won't work in the GT683. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Toolbox Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 ok so a nvidia 675m will work great, but no card combined with optimus? two questions; do you know if the the price for nvidia 675 will drop more when the 700 series comes out? and why does the price differ so much when it comes from the same seller on ebay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czasemwlesie1 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm curious if these cards: amd radeon 6990m Dell Alienware M18x ATI AMD Radeon 6990m 2GB (2954407861) - Allegro.pl - Wi (sorry for giving page in polish language), geforce gtx 580m GTX580m 2GB DDR5 (2958359755) - Allegro.pl - Wi , and amd radeon 6970m from dell alienware m17x ATI RADEON AMD 6970M 2GB ! DELL ALIENWARE M17X !! (2960035350) - Allegro.pl - Wi will work in my msi gt683? I'm really sorry for giving those pages in polish, and for my poor english but i'm tryin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xonar Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm curious if these cards: amd radeon 6990m Dell Alienware M18x ATI AMD Radeon 6990m 2GB (2954407861) - Allegro.pl - Wi (sorry for giving page in polish language), geforce gtx 580m GTX580m 2GB DDR5 (2958359755) - Allegro.pl - Wi , and amd radeon 6970m from dell alienware m17x ATI RADEON AMD 6970M 2GB ! DELL ALIENWARE M17X !! (2960035350) - Allegro.pl - Wi will work in my msi gt683? I'm really sorry for giving those pages in polish, and for my poor english but i'm tryin. All 3 should work. I have a Dell 6990M in my MSI 16F2 right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czasemwlesie1 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 If I want to change my graphic card from gtx 560m to gtx 580m, would I have to modify heatsink and other cooling aparature in my laptop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debianik Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 compare card 580m to your - probably need but im not sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czasemwlesie1 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Well, you say propably but that's not satisfying me. Is here someone who had done that modification and could tell me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majster msi Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 There is method to disable optimus in bios gtx680m after that it should work. Nvidia quadro k5000 works with msi 16F2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soeh Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 If it's any help, I have a GT780DX and just installed a Dell GTX675m (no bios flash required at all) after cleaning out previous drivers through Add/Remove programs and DriverSweeper and installing proper drivers for the current card and it works exactly as intended, throttling and all. x.x Only real problem I've run into is that now my HDMI port pretends that it doesn't exist. I still haven't found a solution from that, but I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blablabla1600 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 7970m works on both 16F1 (gx660/gt680) and 16F2/1761 (GT683/GT780DX) motherboards. Tested by me on gx660 and gt780dx msi's. The gx660 accepts a 570m too. I tried changing cards once just for curiosity. For 16F1 models the highest you can go is 7970m performance wise. A 675m does work too but keep an eye on temps also some vbioses enable hdmi but create problems with drivers (crashes/bsod) and others disable hdmi and work pretty stable. You'll have to sacrifice something.. For 16F2/1761 the 675m issues remain valid. Regarding the 7970m, it works great. However, in-game, turbofan must be used as the EC doesn't read the gpu temp. The fan spins up only if the cpu gets stressed. Kepler based cards need support from bios which older models don't provide. As majster said, you will have to disable optimus on the vbios and upgrade the Intel MEI firmware on the bios itself (it's not so easy). Reverse engineering the bios and integrating the code from scratch..too much work. Debbuging comes next too..not worth the time in my opinion. If performance is needed stick to a 7970m and you'll be fine for a while save the money for a new system with haswell and maxwell!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoDe Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Hi all...I own a MSI GT680 and I would like to upgrade the GPU.My questions are:Does the 7970m and GTX675m (2 or 4 GB) works with this notebook model?Which graphic card is better in terms of performance and issues for this notebook model - 7970m or GTX675m?Do I have to buy a new heat sink or does the stock one from GTX460m fit both of these cards (7970m or GTX675m)?Do I have to upgrade the vbios in these cards in order to make them work on this notebook?Thanks for your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoDe Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Hi all... I own a MSI GT680 and I would like to upgrade the GPU. My questions are: Does the 7970m and GTX675m (2 or 4 GB) works with this notebook model? Which graphic card is better in terms of performance and issues for this notebook model - 7970m or GTX675m? Do I have to buy a new heat sink or does the stock one from GTX460m fit both of these cards (7970m or GTX675m)? Do I have to upgrade the vbios in these cards in order to make them work on this notebook? The original PSU is 150W. Do I have to buy a new PSU with 180W or 220W? Thanks for your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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