Some Questions about the Thinkpad Advanced Dock

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applecookie · #1 Post by **applecookie** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:50 am

Hello.

I today got a refurb lenovo advanced dock for my T60. Now I have two questions about it. Of course, I used the search-function, but
there are so much old infos, that I wonder, if they are already up to date, or if there are newer ones and experiences from users:

1. which one is the drive slot in the advanced dock - ultrabay slim or ultrabay enhanced??? I heard and read different infos.
2. is there a way to get a blueray drive working in the slot?
3. which of the now available graphics cards would work in the pci slot? I read some threads about it and most of the cards there
are not available anymore and some are from very different manufacturers - for example the ati hd5450 is from ati itself, msi, sapphire...
which active and passive cooling...
I need an advice, what to buy!

Regards
applecookie

Radioguy · #2 Post by **Radioguy** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:49 am

1. Enhanced: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... MIGR-61232
2. Yes: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product ... MIGR-69014
3. Well, I'll let others answer there. There are cards out there that probably haven't even been tried, but may work.

applecookie · #3 Post by **applecookie** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:45 pm

Hi.
Thanks for your post.
But I'm a little bit confused.

Ultrabay Enhanced for device expansion - Supports the following bay options:

ThinkPad Ultrabay Slim DVD Burner - Parallel ATA (41N5643)
ThinkPad CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Ultrabay Enhanced Drive (73P3275)
ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter (40Y8725)

Ultrabay Slim DVD Burner, but Ultrabay Enhanced Drive... ???

Regards
applecookie

Radioguy · #4 Post by **Radioguy** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:54 pm

Look at the compatibility matrix half way down:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ultrabay

applecookie · #5 Post by **applecookie** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:20 pm

Ok. Thank you!

applecookie · #6 Post by **applecookie** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:19 am

Any ideas about the graphics card?

Wesley · #7 Post by **Wesley** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:35 pm

applecookie wrote:Any ideas about the graphics card?

check the last few pages. i got my Nvidia 520 to work on it from Zotac. Some others got Radeon HD 5450, Radeon HD 6570 to work on their system. I'm sure there's others, just have to try and see. It has to be <50 Watt consumption. if not it won't work. gluck

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... &start=240

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