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    Alienware m17xR3 owners!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by dilliios, Apr 21, 2012.

  1. dilliios

    dilliios Newbie

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    Hello
    I have been looking around on the internet and foundout that the 675m will be relased for laptops, and what i can see the 675m is identical to my 580m card.
    But the 680m will be a real kepler card, but does anyone know if the card will be "plug and play" in my m17xr3?

    Or will a new revison of alienware be relased only because of the card?
    I know these questions are kind of early in the process but would be nice to know =)
     
    dilliios, Apr 21, 2012
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  2. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    the next gen m17x has already been released though it has pretty much current specs as the r3 systems. Only difference will be some minor things such as M-SATA and ivy bridge. 680m "should" play nice with the r3, but nobody will know till its actually put into an r3. ;)
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 22, 2012
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  3. Toledano

    Toledano Notebook Evangelist

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    (Me) I have the 460m and I'd like to upgrade my GPU.

    (Dell Rep) "...As for the video card, I'm afraid upgrade is not possible for it on this system."

    (me) "...I can't upgrade my GPU???"

    (Dell Rep) "Yes that is correct. The upgrades are only available at point of purchase as the hard wares on the system is configured that to work with the motherboard and other components."

    She/He was wrong... right? And sorry for posting it here, but its related to this thread :)
     
    Toledano, Apr 22, 2012
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  4. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    Toledano, I am afraid you hit the worst rep in Dell history, couldn't have been worse :D yeah upgrade through dell is very possible
     
    maxheap, Apr 22, 2012
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  5. Toledano

    Toledano Notebook Evangelist

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    HAHA, good thing cuz I was really hating that i couldn't upgrade my GPU. Thank you Graz'zt :D
     
    Toledano, Apr 22, 2012
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  6. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    You are welcome man! I was also waiting for 680m, but couldn't resist 7970m anymore :D This card is THE beast :)
     
    maxheap, Apr 22, 2012
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  7. bigtonyman

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    yea it's possible to upgrade, but sadly I doubt dell will sell you any of the next gen cards because they aren't officially supported in the R3. :( Gonna have to find one from either here on NBR or Ebay.
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 22, 2012
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    Ammo7 Notebook Consultant

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    the rep info is totaly bogus: I upgraded from the 460M to the 580M over A month ago and have not had any problems so far. new thermal pads and repasted temps stay maxed with furmark around 62C.
     
    Ammo7, Apr 23, 2012
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