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    anyone link me? to installing.. M17x R3 GPU

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Ch0bo42, Jul 14, 2011.

  1. Ch0bo42

    Ch0bo42 Notebook Guru

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    AMD 6970m video card into m17x R3... and I read some stuff about heat sink do I need that?

    I originally had 460m and installing 6970m and would like a instruction or guideline I could follow to do this successfully.. I know there is one in the owners manual, but I would like to get it from here.
     
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    its pretty straight forward, open up bottom panel. then removed the gpu fan and unscrew the heatsink off the card. then removed card. clean heatsink and add paste to gpu then put back.
     
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    ok so I do not have to get another heat sink or anything? I thought I read that somewhere, but it was for R2 or something wasn't sure.
     
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    yes you use the same heatsink.
     
    inap, Jul 15, 2011
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    i installed it, but what else do i do now? driver? or whatever?
     
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    run driver sweeper to clean up all the old nvidia drivers, and ccleaner to clean up the registry. then download the ati driver from the dell site.

    Drivers & Downloads
     
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    hopefully this works :)
     
    Ch0bo42, Jul 15, 2011
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