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    Area 51-m 7700 upgrade

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Travalon, Jun 11, 2009.

  1. Travalon

    Travalon Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am planning on sending my 7700 to Ztronics soon. I figured as long as it was getting an attitude adjustment I would up grade the best I can. They have a D900t v 6.1 board I was thinking about but they don't have the GeForce 7950 gtx 512mb card I want. Does anyone know where I can get a NEW one? I found some used ones on e-bay but I'm not sure if they are even the right one. Here's a link to one of them:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Alienware-M9700-NVidia-Go-7950-GTX-512MB-Video-Card-Dtr_W0QQitemZ370209959981QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Video_TV_Cards?hash=item56323bb02d&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262&_trkparms=|301%3A0|293%3A2|294%3A30

    Or, as long as I'm throwing money at this thing, any suggestions to max out what I can stuff in this chassis would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Travalon, Jun 11, 2009
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  2. RideRome

    RideRome Notebook Consultant

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    Which 7700 revision do you have? Intel pentium based?
     
    RideRome, Jun 11, 2009
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  3. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Area-51 is the Intel Pentium 4 based (Clevo D900T)
    Aurora is the AMD Athlon X2 based (Clevo D900K).

    your system cannot support that videocard that you linked.... since that is only for Arima systems (M9700 and M9750)

    during that time, Clevo was not using MXM modules, so you are stuck with the usually high-priced Clevo modules
     
    Gophn, Jun 11, 2009
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I know a guy who has a 7950GTX with very low usage on it. Send me a PM and I will give you his contact information.
    By the way his card was pulled from a D900K, so it will be compatible with yours as long as you have the 220 watt power brick (20V at 11Amps)

    The 180 watt power brick will not be able to power the 7950GTX

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jun 11, 2009
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