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    M15x GPU possibility?

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Blackvoid, Nov 7, 2011.

  1. Blackvoid

    Blackvoid Notebook Consultant

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    Hello.

    My 9800GT is finally gone and I feel like buying new m14x, but I'd like to give my old M15x to my friend as a gift for xmass so I'm trying to figure out if there is any cheaper GPU I could buy to it. I'd rather get ati as I believe it will last longer, but I never had ati in this laptop before so I have no clue what are my options and what would be roughly price for one of those.

    Could anyone please give me an idea?

    Thank you
     
    Blackvoid, Nov 7, 2011
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    benfclark Notebook Guru

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    See if you can get a hold of a Mobility 3870, it's a reliable card which will take the latest drivers available.

    The catch is that it won't fit with the nVidia heatsink, so you'll either have to get the ATI one, or physically modify your existing one.
     
    benfclark, Nov 9, 2011
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    dandi83 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone! after much research I found in this post I may have what it takes to me ....
    I have assembled a m15x-R1 with a X9000 CPU, 8GB DDR2, 60GB SSD.
    The PC with the integrated intel video card to boot, but if I insert the fx3600m PC starts for few seconds and then goes
    Stand by pulsing with alienhead ......... how I can solve? thanks for the help
    My bios version of the video card (fx3600) is 62.92.27.00.09 (techPowerUp! :: VGA Bios Collection: HP Quadro FX 3600M 512 MB );
    I discovered that there is a bios 62.92.27.00.05 (techPowerUp GPU-Z Validation g7ud5 ) which should make the card compatible with the Alienware m15x, so I ask anyone to post the bios 00.05 or otherwise who has the video card running on Alienware m15x to save the bios of the video card and maybe send it ....... Thank you!
     
    dandi83, Jan 12, 2012
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