touchy with warranty's?

im going to be ordering my m17 in around a week (just holding out to see if there introducing anything new at E3). now im going for almost max in every aspect. but i can bring myself to pay over $1000 for the 920xm when i can get a 940xm on ebay (same supplier as joker) for just over $700. now i can't find it in anyway clear on there site, nor over the phone to alienware. if I just purchase mine with a 720qm, and buy a 940xm off ebay. Am i able to put it in myself and not completly void my warranty?.........what exactly is the situation here?

 

Thats exactly what I and many other members are doing. I've done it with systems in the past. Dell will not cover damage done by the user during CPU replacement, or damage caused by the CPU. But, if there are any issues and the system needs to be serviced, than just swap in your stock processor beforehand. I went with the i5 since it's cheaper. I currently have a 940XM on the way, and a 920XM in my possession so I'll be benching both, along with the i5 520. Just to see how much differant they are. Just don't sell your stock CPU.

Also, all the 940XM CPUs on ebay are engineering samples or qualification samples and are not backed by a warranty under intel.

 

but is there any reason to beleive that they will fail, since you have ordered one yourself?

 

Not particularly, just gotta take your chances on them. You can find resellers that offer a warranty. I think some of the ones on ebay do.

 

cheers for the insight. looking a moo's tutorial it doesnt look very hard. also its gonna save me about $500 to buy it with a i7 720, and replace it with a 940xm rather then opt for alienware's 920qm. other then replacing the cpu/thermal compound. is there anything else specific I have to do in the bios?

 

Not really, pretty much plug and play. If you order the 940XM QS from lappymonkey on ebay, the chip comes from the UK, but the seller also offers a 1 year warranty on the product through himself and not intel. Thats who I ordered mine from.

 

cheers, all this info is very helpfull. I'm going to go look him up on ebay, most likely place an order at the same time as my m17x. 1 year warranty is better then no warranty.

 

Here is where I got my 940XM QS

 

I know a few guys that have purchased from Lee from Laptopmonkey .All good he is very helpful also.Plus the 1 year warranty for £20 is unbeatable in my opinion

 

quick, buy more 940xm's so the 920xm price will drop moar!


($450 average price on ebay)