About to so something drastic with my Alienwares, require thoughts

Okay here's what happened. I recently bought an AW M18x R1 for 900 and it has a GTX 580M. I am hoping to pull out the 7970m from my current R4 and put it into the m18x r2. Is this a wise decision? How is the build quality differences between the two monsters. Also, weight is not a concern at all as I love lugging around a big system for some reason. Fits my physique well.


The R4 has a 3610 processor while the AW m18x r1 has a 2670m.

Laptop arrives tomorrow. I cant wait as the thing is presently under warranty too and has had a new motherboard installed into it. Added to that, theres also 6 months of warranty left on it too

 

awsome deal. I'd am a AMD/Ati fan so I like the idea of a 7970m. I just have read that crossfire will keep burning up on you. But because you have a M18x you could overclock a single 7970m to very high values. You'd have a single gpu beast

 

How about i sold my 7970m for a GTX 680m and use the GTX 580m as a Physx card? Will that be possible?

 

Why would you even use the 580M if you have the 680M I'm confused? You cannot have two different cards running in the machine .. Well two different nvidias or 1 Nividia and 1 AMD the set up is for one master card and one slave

 

Hey Hackintosh, allow me to rephrase my statement so that it makes more sense. I dont have the 680m yet. I am hoping to sell my 7970m and buy a GTX 680m with the money I have saved. I am also hoping to leave the 580m that came with it as a Physx card so it wont really be an SLi system per se. it will only use the GTX 680m for rendering and the 580m as a dedicated PPU

 

Hmmm, yes that does make more sense. But again I'm not all to sure that that will work. But that would be a question for owners of the M18x to tell you. But what I have researched, the other card simply wont function as a standalone it has to be in sli config.

 

In the M18x I'm not sure taking a hit on the 7970M sale and buying a 680m is worth it.

 

Do you personally feel that CFX 7970m will be a better investment? I am trying to get the best bang for my buck just as everyone else

 

AMD CFX is apparently buggy. I'd try to go for the 680m sli. A single 7970m over a 680m is not worth is unless you plan to get a second gpu. I would be interested in your 7970m if you end up selling it.

 

GTX 680M literally runs circles around 7970M in every measure except GPUGPU compute, and as an added bonus it's a more reliable product with better driver support.