What PCI Express cards work in the Advanced Dock?

[hans2323]

Hi,

If you have a T60, an Advanced Dock and installed a PCIe graphics card in your dock, can you please share your T60 model number, the brand/chipset/model of the graphics card and your personal experience with using that combination?

Apparently, not all cards work. Please, post only working configurations to this thread.

Thank you!
-Hans

[tvsjr]

Lenovo Thinkpad T60p Widescreen 8741C4U
Advanced Dock
ATI Radeon X1300, 256MB, PCIe

I drive one Dell 2007FP with the internal V5250 via DVI-D, and the other 2007FP through the X1300's DVI-D. I can run up to four monitors by using the VGA on the dock and the VGA on the card, but don't have any reason to do so.

The X1300, though equipped with a fan, is reasonably quiet (the dock fan, on the other hand, gets fuggin loud when you're driving a PCIe card.)

Here are the results of my testing a few cards until I found one that worked:

PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB PCIe, DVI-I + VGA. Runs fine... one DVI-D monitor to the dock connector (onboard V5250), the other to the GeForce. Downside - the fan on the PNY card is god-awful loud.

VisionTek/ATI Radeon X1300XT 256MB PCIe, dual DVI-I. Dock/laptop never even sees the card. I expect the card isn't happy with the one lane available on the PCIe bus and is simply refusing to initialize.

VisionTek/ATI Radeon X1300 256MB PCIe, DVI-I + VGA. Runs fine... one DVI-D to the dock, other to the GeForce. It does have a fan on it, but it's not nearly as loud as the existing fans in the dock (which seem to get exceptionally loud when you add a PCIe card in... grumble.)

[Nebelfelsen]

T60 (2007FRG)
Advanced Dock
Matrox Millenium P650 LP PCIe 64 (PCIe x16 Bus, 128 MB, 600 MHz) (standard PCIe-card (also available from Matrox) would fit als well as the low profile card that I have bought)

works fine with 2 IBM P275 CRT-screens with 1600x1200 @ 85 Hz but the fan of the matrox an the additional fan of the advanced dock (the one for the PCIe-compartement) make a lot of noise...