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    Alienware M17x R3 Upgrade?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Shere, Sep 16, 2015.

  1. Shere

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    Hello guys,
    I was wondering if you could help me since I'm not really familiar with all the upgrading and understanding of softwares.
    This laptop as you probably know is 4 years old and since the games have higher and higher requirements It cannot keep up. Last week I bought few games for example AC: Unity (yep kind of late but I didn't have much time to play last 1 and half year) and I cannot run the games. So I was wondering if you could tell me whether it's possible to upgrade such laptop with better Graphic card or processor (or anything else?). And if yes, what exactly would be best to buy (if possible please tell me the reason)
    PS: I'm traveling a lot and desktop PC is not an option.

    Any opinion helps,
    Thank you.
     
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    First of all...

    What are your current specs?
     
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  3. Shere

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    GPU: GeForce GTX 560M
    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
    RAM: 8,00 GB

    Do you need anything else?
     
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    I've seen 780m's working on this machine. If you added that you would get 1-2 years more. Buying a new one would give you more than that for sure.
     
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    Thank you very much. I will consider it.
    Buying new one is not possible neither, my funds are quite low for new one :)
     
    Shere, Sep 16, 2015
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