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    anyone stumble upon the 3 pin 100w heatsink for AW 17 yet?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Billyxq, Oct 27, 2014.

  1. Billyxq

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    Hi guys, has anyone found any site that sells the elusive YP26V (3 pin 100w) heatsink? I am having troubles finding this particular part because almost every seller that I stumble upon would not have it in stock. I have tried ordering from dell as well in which they have failed to provide me with the price quotation even after making numerous calls to them.
     
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    Can be hard to find, but i just kept regulary checked Ebay and one eventualy came up.
     
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    Most of these links either have their supplies depleted or charges absurd shipping fees to my location. But it's all good :D managed to buy them off dell after calling them a few more times.

    edit: another interesting that I would like to add is that despite the 6-8 weeks delivery time that I was told by dell, today approximately 2 days after I placed my order, my heatsink arrived in mint condition
     
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    How much did Dell charge?
     
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    Dell charged me 100 dollars for the heatsink itself with an additional 10 dollars tax. No shipping fees.
     
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    What is the benefit of this heatsink?
     
    okron1k, Nov 2, 2014
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    Normally the 2012 versions of AW17 which had GTX765M and 2014's GTX860M are 75watt GPUs have 2 pipe heatsink they have & 100W heatsink is a 3 pipe for the GPUs with 100W TDP like GTX780M, 880M (flawed card) and the newly released GTX980M. Consider these as upgrades from the low tdp cards.
     
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    Right on, thanks. I have a 780M so I should already have the 100w heat sink.

    Why is the 880M flawed? Isn't it just a 780M with higher clocks and more memory? I was just trying to look into if it's possible to convert my 780M to an 880M with a bios flash or something.
     
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    Yes, 100w heatsink & about the 880M from the forum posts I can say that card is a failure in many cases as it throttles very badly, your 780M is a lot better than that crap. If you really want to get more out of it you might need vBios mod from Techinferno but if are not good at overclocking stuff better keep it stock.
     
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    How much did you get the 860M for )?
     
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    Why would you need an 860M ?, If you are considering any upgrade better wait for the 900M series mods then go for 970M/960M the 75W or 980M the 100W variant.
     
    Ashtrix, Nov 4, 2014
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