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    R-2 owners - anyone upgraded their own CPU or GPU?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Docsteel, Dec 29, 2010.

  1. Docsteel

    Docsteel Vast Alien Conspiracy

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    Since the R-2 is more upgradeable than the R-1, who here has actually done their own CPU or GPU upgrade? How much overhead is there on power?
     
    Docsteel, Dec 29, 2010
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    TalonH Notebook Evangelist

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    Good luck because it's soldered to the board.
     
    TalonH, Dec 29, 2010
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    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    The R2 has the same restrictions to upgrading either the CPU or GPU as the R1.
     
    slickie88, Dec 29, 2010
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    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    Short of someone with a reflow station, and a line on i7 mobile chips that have the pads of a 1288 contact BGA connection...
     
    jeremyshaw, Dec 29, 2010
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    Docsteel Vast Alien Conspiracy

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    Ah my mistake, I thought for some reason the R-2's were socketed, not soldered!
     
    Docsteel, Dec 30, 2010
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