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    7970m to 680m

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by caima48, Jul 23, 2012.

  1. caima48

    caima48 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hello guy
    I'm thinking of upgrading from 7970m to 680m. and I have some doubts

    what I play more is battlefield3, will be better with the gtx 680?

    If I call dell for change the graphics card, I have to send the pc or they send someone to do it?

    sorry for my english
     
    caima48, Jul 23, 2012
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  2. trooper1414

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    honestly 7970m is a great card ....you dont really need to make the jump ...but even if you decide to ...DELL will charge an astonishing amount for the change....and they send a technician home to change it for you .....which they will say is "free" as part of the deal....but trust me they would overprice it enough ...for a 20 min installation service.
     
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  3. bigtonyman

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    probably gonna cost over $1000 like the 580m did :no:
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 23, 2012
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    i agree...i called up a week back for the 6990M and was given a pricing of 695 :mad:
     
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    if you want one your better off just buying one off ebay or the NBR marketplace im afraid. :(
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 23, 2012
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    caima48 Notebook Enthusiast

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    joder . soooo if the 6990m cost 695 the gtx 680m is 300 more that the 7970m arround 1000 , how much for the 7970??????
     
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    $700 Is what several people were quoted I believe.
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 23, 2012
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    stay with the ati and upgrade in a year when 680M gets ugraded ;)
    now the 10% fps increase is not worth the money..
     
    Xenn0X, Jul 23, 2012
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    If you have not gotten the pricing information you can do so by sending an e-mail to [email protected] and we will take care of it. By the way DELL is not selling the 680m yet as a spare part as we are giving prio to the new laptops at the moment. As soon as we have them available we'll start selling them.
     
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  10. GeoCake

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    The 680M is £700 on eBay... I can buy x2 7970M for this lol

    It's only more of a beast when overvolted and tweaked a great deal AND you have to get a good sample for it to perform well
     
    GeoCake, Jul 23, 2012
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  11. SlickDude80

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    the average overclock that most people will achieve on the 680m's will only be slightly faster than the average overclock on the 7970's. the highly oc'ed and overvolted samples that you see running faster than stock desktop 680's will not last...these cards will fry if you try running them like that in the longterm

    Sent from my SGH-T989D using Tapatalk 2
     
    SlickDude80, Jul 23, 2012
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