Gtx 980m 8gb non gsync in aw 17 ranger?

Hello,

can someone tell me if that graphic card will work in my alienware 17 r1 without issues? before i have 880m with 3pipe heatsink, but its burned right now One of my friends have gtx 980m 8gb from MSI gt80 for sale, so i think about something to replace old one

p.s - that copper backplate from clevo let me go down some celsius?

 

Yes , 980m will work fine.

 

and how about that backplate do you know is worth the money?

 

I think it will be worth it if you have a fan that blows on it. Otherwise , I don't how it would get cooled since it's underneath the gpu. And the gpu fan is blowing towards the fins to cool top of gpu.

 

As far as I had read, the backplate won't fit at all, due to lack of space.
But never tested that myself, altghough I had a card and backplate from Clevo, but was just too lazy

 

It should fit as the AW 17 has no obstruction where the card is installed. I have plenty of them. I can try and pop it on a 880m and verify.

 

The backplate isn't really worth it. The main thing you have to worry about on the 980m is cooling the VRMS

 

im living in switzerland and temps in summer inside my room are 37C thats why my 880m died, need to go down with temps cuz sometimes after 2-3h playing WoW they are 93c( i dont check it all the time while playing), so maybe i try fan mod with bigger CFM + that copper backplate, what do you think about it?

@Rengsey R. H. Jr.

yes if you can check it would be great, and one more question thermo pads are exactly the same or i need another one?

 

Pop in the m17x r4 GPU fan, that is much superior over that of the 17.
It is something like 12 or 13 cfm.

 

^ if you want to cool your gpu, get the 5 pipe heatsink off ebay and also the m17x r4 gpu fan, then get some thermal grizzly kryonaught and some good thermal pads. My 980m never got over 65C after doing all this in my r4 and that was only with the 3 pipe heatsink

 

thanks for reply guys, i bought fans with bigger cfm + custom heatpipes(cpu + gpu) and that copper backplate from clevo, when everyhing come we will see how it works

 

can any1 send me a correct(unlocked if possible) vbios for gtx 980m 8gb (sli non gsync) version?

it wont work, give 8 beeps :/ think due to that msi gt80 vbios

@ got prema bios, same 8 beeps (intel graphic work fine)

 

I always used a 980m in edp mode. I guess some people have gotten it to work in lvds mode. Do you have windows 8/10 installed?

 

Works fine in LVDS mode - Most likely your card is broken if it is not showing up in device manager/bios or you dont have the right BIOS. Make sure you have a UEFI GPT installation of windows and your BIOS is set to UEFI mode. Enable "always enable Peg" and if you are using optimus make sure to enable a muxless dynamic and fixed mode is turned on in the bios.

 

Got win 7 and win 10, but its in legacy mode i think, card not broken i see it in device manager and drivers installed without problem, yesterday i did unlocked bios today will try install fresh system with full uefi

@ its working fine now, but which drivers i should install? from nvidia site works, but they are not so good, i did 7k pts in 3dmark :/

 

@up any sugestions?

 

its working, without uefi wont work(you must have it!), custom drivers from techinferno and 980m did 12k in 3dmark, thanks for help