muranb Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Having got Mountain Lion working nicely on the Intel D630 I would love to try the same or Mavericks on the nVidia model as this seems to bring about huge performance improvements. There are a lot of nVidia motherboards available so I am wondering if they are compatible with the Intel model of the D630? i.e. will the board just be a straight replacement or are there other differences preventing the swap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted July 3, 2014 Administrators Share Posted July 3, 2014 The D630 nVidia board is a straight replacement, but watch out for the heatsink which is different between the 2 models: nVidia-based board needs a dual/combined heatsink for CPU + GPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muranb Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 Thanks, would look for one that comes with the heatsink included if I go this route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dornkaat Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Hey Muranb, i have the same intention to replace the intel board in my d630 with a nvidia board, are there any obstacles what i have to think about, is there an how to in what order the board has to be replaced ?? Thanks in advance dornkaat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 30, 2015 Administrators Share Posted January 30, 2015 All the necessary laptop hardware documentation is provided in the Service Manual available at Dell's support web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 30, 2015 Administrators Share Posted January 30, 2015 it goes back together the same way you take it out. it's not too hard... dell made the latitude line with quick field serviceability in mind. unlike other laptops i dreaded working on in the past. hint Apple!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dornkaat Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hello i have finished the rework of changing the nvidia motherbord ! everything works now fine , one problem was the heatsink for the nvidia and the chipset chips i had no pads (like dell uses for the heat transport) i used two polished copper plates (same size as the chips) and thermalpaste , works fine ! the other problem is now to install mavericks ..... the disk from my other intel d630 works oob with the nvidia d630 ... the thermal settings are not well set because the fan is running loud .... but it works .... se ya dornkaat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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