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HP Zbook 15 G2 GPU Upgrade

cfyt01

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I have a HP Zbook 15 G2 Laptop
BIOS L70 01.07 (01/10/2014)
GPU MXM-A
NVIDIA Quadro K1100M

Do you know if an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 MXM-A would work on my Laptop?
 
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The ultimate spec of your laptop would have come with a NVIDIA Quadro K2100M. Anything outside of that is not guaranteed to work due to HP locking down their bioses and only allowing verified and very specific hardware to run.

Even if it did support the 1050. It would need one with a HP bios to be able to run on their laptops.
 

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There are threads where people successfully swapped to Quadro P-series (also Pascal-based). So, 1050 MXM should work as well.
One dude even swapped to P3000 after tinkering with SATA ODD slot ( so it'll fit Type-B MXM).
I'd say - go for it.
 
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