My good old m15x

Do you guys think it's worth upgrading? I do love my laptop but it's old.

Can a 920/940 really compete? Paired with a 970m or something? Originally this laptop cost me 3.5k CAD. It would cost me 1k to do what I want to do. 500 more I could get an msi or Asus.

 

Go back and read though the several upgrade threads. There are a few cons on the people that have got the GPU upgraded to a newer card. Little stuff like the video out port wouldn't work. You will have to see if that is worth it to you are not.

 

Honesty I don't feel like reading through pages and pages of nothing. It's not a big deal to make a new thread. I would never use a video port anyways. This m15x has very low mileage

 

Eso es en determinadas tarjetas.
La GTX970 funciona a la perfección.
Si le añades un procesador 920xm y una fuente de alimentación 240w, tienes un portátil espectacular.

Perdón por el idioma. No tengo tiempo de traducir.

 

I popped on a M290X and it's performance is monster, you WILL need a 920XM though.

AMD's driver has more overhead (CPU load) per instruction basically meaning a AMD card will cause more cpu usage than an nvidia card doing the same task. Probably why people here say the 680M delivers "smoother frames" than a M290X or 8970M despite it being faster.
Before I get roasted and told im wrong, here's a video from DigitalFoundry

 

I have another M290X for sale if you want to go the same route as Gofspar

 

Gameplay is smoother but no argument from me that in some instances the 7970M/8970M/M290X is faster, hard to see that in games though where nvidia usually beats AMD to optimise a game.
However the 680M can overclock like a bat out of hell! I was always scared to overclock my 7970M due to excessive temperatures even with a cooling mod.

 

680M is the better card IMO, just holds a price premium.

 

Except of course if you're you, or me! I got a great price too! How's the claim going BTW?

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Idk, KOI just gave me $150 and said he'll deal with the claim.

I'm happy with that I guess since I just threw the card up on Ebay as untested and got $50 for it, so didn't lose anything really.

 

Translated it for you.

"That is under certain cards .
The GTX970 works perfectly .
If you add a 920XM processor and a 240W power supply , you have a spectacular notebook.

Sorry about the language. I have no time to translate." (TRANSLATED BY GOOGLE)

 

That is a good point. I want to know what is happening with that claim too

50 dollars for broken 680M you cheeky boy!

 

Got my 150 dollars back i am a happy boy now too

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That is a big win for everyone here! Will offset new PSUs and mobo a little bit.

 

My new mobo should come tomorrow or thursday.