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    M17 Video card question

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by flawed, Jul 9, 2010.

  1. flawed

    flawed Notebook Guru

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    I have a 9800 GTX video card, MXM 2.1 from a Clevo D900, will this card work in a M17? Thanks!
     
    flawed, Jul 9, 2010
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  2. DHC

    DHC Notebook Evangelist

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    DHC, Jul 9, 2010
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  3. simonmpoulton

    simonmpoulton Notebook Deity

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    Should work but you will probably need to flash the OCZ bios on your machine as I doubt the Alienware one has support for it.
     
    simonmpoulton, Jul 10, 2010
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  4. EviLCorsaiR

    EviLCorsaiR Asura

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    Yeah it should work, might need to update the BIOS to a non-AW revision.

    However do note that you will never be able to add a second 9800 GTX into the machine and run it in SLi. You'll have to be fine with the single card.
     
    EviLCorsaiR, Jul 11, 2010
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    aral3005 Notebook Geek

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    Why?cant do sli?
     
    aral3005, Jul 15, 2010
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  6. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    because sli require an aditional chip to be integrated to the motherboard and as the m17 was made for ATI it does not include that chip wich require you to use a nvidia chipset
     
    granyte, Jul 15, 2010
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