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    I need GTX 980M SLI

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Ansem, Oct 13, 2014.

  1. GTO_PAO11

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    Wait, wasn't this tested on M18x or AW18?
     
    GTO_PAO11, Oct 29, 2014
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    Apparently they offered something for sale that they may not be able to deliver. If Alienware is going all BGA on the laptop GPUs we may not see a vBIOS for 980M for a while. We may need to rely on our friends with hex editing skills to fix whatever Clevo's vBIOS does to the GPU before it can be used on another system. Then again, they may have obtained a generic vBIOS from NVIDIA. In that case it may actually work fine with a generic vBIOS.

    It depends on what Clevo did to their vBIOS and why they did it to understand why it won't work correctly on a different machine. I'm sure Clevo would much prefer to sell Alienware owners a Clevo with 980M SLI rather than sell them GPUs to upgrade their Alienware. That would be reason enough and a business incentive to make it not work on purpose. They're in business to sell Clevo products, not help Alienware customers upgrade.
     
    Mr. Fox, Oct 29, 2014
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    Oh, darn. AW going to BGA on their laptops?

    I pray it's a speculation. I mean, it does not hurt for Dell to release the AW 18 with 980M cards. Why can't they??
     
    GTO_PAO11, Oct 29, 2014
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    Yup that's right. One thing that I am most worried about is that old clevo notebooks that were released pre-980m (or pre-maxwell) needed new bios. So this alienware issue with 980m may be a vbios or bios problem.

    I hope it is rather vbios problem because if it is bios that's causing this, before dell releases new bios we dont have an answer.
     
    godfafa_kr, Oct 29, 2014
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    How come on ebay there is like two vends selling 980m s for alienware 17 18 . Upgrade you notebook and upgrademonkey
     
    Player2, Oct 29, 2014
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    Clevo has had BIOS limitation issues for as long as I can remember. Alienware hasn't always had them. The problem may not be the laptops it doesn't work in.
     
    Mr. Fox, Oct 29, 2014
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    Yes I've heard about that and I hope it's just vbios issue too.
     
    godfafa_kr, Oct 29, 2014
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    Follow my posts. Some of them are lying, some of them just didn't even test.
    They just think it would work on alienware.
     
    godfafa_kr, Oct 29, 2014
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  9. Player2

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    Sorry. Didn't read all your posts before I posted on this thread.
    Thanks for reply anyway.
     
    Player2, Oct 29, 2014
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    If you are concerned I'd wait for users to test it. :)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 30, 2014
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  11. louis1978uk

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    Good luck all,i have SLI 980m's running in p570wm straight forwards upgrade plug and play no modded drivers ive also used them in the clevo p370sm and p370sm3(3d) working a charm in all 3 and the p370sm doesnt support the 980m the sm-a was made for that so looks like a good year for clevo upgradablity but hopefully dell get their sh%^ togethe sharpish.


    single card results this morning :- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930K,Notebook P570WM
    SLI last night :- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4930K,Notebook P570WM
     
    louis1978uk, Dec 7, 2014
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    louis1978uk, Dec 7, 2014
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    Nice, but btw the 4960X would make no difference to the results ;) It's all about the quality of the chip you have and they are pretty much binned the same.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 7, 2014
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