behaines70 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I see in other posts the MSI GX740 getting an AMD 6970M, 7970M and an AMD 8970 upgrade. I'm a bit late to the GPU upgrade party, and can't really swing a new gaming laptop for a few years. All that being said, has anyone tried the AMD FirePro line in the MSI GX740? Looking at the specs/benchmarks the AMD FirePro m6000 would produce the same fps as the 6970 at a lower TDP (28nm VS 40nm). And the AMD FirePro M6100 is slightly faster than an AMD 7970m.Ebay is showing a FirePro M6000 ~70, so it looks like a fairly inexpensive upgrade to my severely aging laptop. Can anyone see an issue with this GPU upgrade?Thanks!B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debianik Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 m6000 its like 5870m -not 6970m and m6000 from dell (probably only one available) works with 1gen/2gen msi GT m61000 (in my case ) not works in msi 1gen gt and its slower than 7970m for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
behaines70 Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Since the site is back up I'll post the followup. I pulled the card and performance information from NoteBookcheck.net. And you're right Debianik, most of the benchmarks go to the 7970. The Firepro 6100 is 25W lower TDP though, and a lower price tag on ebay. So the short answer is the AMD FirePro m6100 worked just fine in the MSI GX740. I still can't run Fallout 4 at full HD in Ultra...or even high detail at 60fps, but it is playable at slightly lower resolution and higher quality settings. I did grab a 180W power supply just in case. For a 6 year old machine I think this upgrade bought me a few more years of use. My CPU is probably a huge limiting factor at this point as it's an i7 720QM. I could put in an 940XM, but it would probably be better to just save the money and upgrade the whole thing in 2 years. (If anyone has a i7 920XM or 940XM laying about let me know. ; ) After installation Win 10 said it was a AMD Firepro 6100, after I installed the Firepro drivers it said it was an AMD Radeon HD 8950, and on any given day the name displayed by GPU-Z.0.8.6 seems to vary. It runs well after burn in. Cleaned up all the heat sinks, reapplied thermal grease, tightened down the heat sink and did a burn in. First few hours of FO4 it ran a bit hot (92 C.), but it's come down, and is running about 84 to 86, so I'm pretty comfortable with the cooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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