New 1080's or 1070's

Who am I kidding, 1080's. lol With my laptop now being around 3 years old, i'm happily surprised to say it still runs most games maxed out nicely. My question is hypothetical, although we are allowed to dream. lol.

If it becomes possible to install and run two 1080's in SLI (which a certain few on this board will def attempt to do) would the alienware 18 from 2013 be able to utilize them without too much bottlenecking?

Specifically would my 4930 be able to keep up , to provide enough work for the 1080's to do without them sitting around waiting for the CPU? I don't have it running at the promised alienware 4.3ghz like most guys and gals here, i run it at 4103mhz. To be honest I haven't been following the mobile hardware supply and other then the 4940MX am not even sure what came after that .

 

It will not utilize them because it's not compatible

 

If you could point me to the article or video saying the intel 4930MX is in compatible with the GTX 1080 I would appreciated it. I would highly doubt the processor is incompatible with any video card red or green.

If your talking about the alienware 18, I did say hypothetical, and lets not forget the 980 was incompatible, it just took the bios and a few other modifications and then it worked. Even then the 980's first began working on the older model alienware 18's, I believe the R2's? but i could be wrong on that one.

Having said all that, is the 4930MX in my laptop capable of pushing 1080's (when the 1080's are able to be installed if alienware chooses to ) I had the oportunity to get my hands on a 4940MX but it just didn't seem worth the swap out.

 

Listen. Any laptop prior to pascal release is INCOMPATIBLE with new cards. They will require EC voltage control and they aren't same size. You can only wait for MSI cards as they promised to make upgrades possible but I wouldn't be too optimistic if it works in AW.

 

I forgot about MSI's promise, not that corporations dont break them on the daily, especially if there is no pecuniary disincentive; I'm skeptical Pascal will be produced in the M form factor period.

 

Forget EC control, there is no LVDS code in the Pascal vBIOS, so all M18x and Alienware 18 systems are officially depreciated. 980M is the highest the R2/A18 will go, and the 880M is the highest the R1 will go. No LVDS code = no future at all. Not to mention larger, custom designed PCB which has no chance of fitting in the M18x/A18

 

From all the info we have this is pretty much correct. The new 1080 series will use larger boards so they wont physically fit into the laptop. 980m is the highest card for alienwares sadly. Basically anyone looking for new 1080s will NEED an entirely new laptop like eurocoms sky x9e2. This year is shaping up to be the year to buy a new system if not next year for certain.

 

How about the GT80S Anniversary Edition when MSI managed to fit 2 Desktop Class GTX 980s in the titan, while maybe, a slight bulge?

 

Maybe MSI will release some cards to upgrade GT80 but Clevo models will surely won't fit and even if fit it won't work.

 

Realistically the M18x and A18 are basically at the upper limit of adaptability with the 980m series. It shouldn't be a suprise at this point to anyone since you can only go so far with upgrades with laptops. Even so the machines themselves with those GPU's are more than capable of handling anything that will come out for at least another 2 or 3 years.

Besides at some point we all have to move on to newer tech eventually its the way of things. At least we got a damn good run with the parts we could upgrade.

 

I guess you guys should follow these ones, as this thread is lacking info by a far margin like the Alienware M17x subforum thread for pascal.
Clevo / Pascal refresh
Pascal MXM upgrades & Poll
MXM 3.0b thread

Very sad future right now, Just make sure you vote against this greed !!

 

What about the 4930MX? I lost interest in my alienware after they screwed us, so I really don't even know which is the top mobile processor out right now. At that time it was the 4930/4940, what would you consider the top performing mobile processor out right now?

 

4930MX is a powerful CPU, a bit hot but still powerful. You should be happy with it, just use good thermal paste.

The top mobile cpu doesn't exist now as all Skylake gen chips are BGA, soldered to the motherboard. There is some 6820HK but it throttles as far as I know. Clevo now gives desktop CPUs in DTRs as all mobiles are soldered. We are getting screwed by all manufacturers except Clevo and probably MSI. They offered some buyback because GT80 is not compatible with Pascal but they aren't offering desktop CPU at all.