M17 upgrade to 4850 survey

Hey guys

just a little survey for the m17 guys out there

will you upgrade to the 4850's? If so will you do it yourself or get aw to do it?

Pete

 

Hi

I miss the option: I'll when I have the money, but not now

Greetings
Julian

 

I voted for 'No I will not I am happy with what I have'
Even though i dont have the M17
ill have it soon and 3870 will do the job

 

Although I'm very pleased with the performance my 3870's provide, an increase in performance as huge as what the 4850's will provide, is too much to resist.

Plus, my (now my wife's) M9750 will see a big boost in performance with the 3870's. And at $227.95 for each 4850, it's a great buy.

 

Ive posted this excert from an E-mail I received from Alienware in another 4850 thread but I think it is appropriate here as there is still confusion about whether we can but the cards at all and whether we can install it ourselves as well as pricing(UK).......here goes;

"Regarding the graphics upgrade, for the M17 there is ATI RADEON M98 1GB HD4850 MASTER for 187.75 GBP each available. They can be replaced by you with a technician on the phone. The crossfire cable should be included with the secondary video card, I will find out whether that is true and have it placed in the notes, so that once you call us to purchase this upgrade, an agent will be able to see it and tell you.
Unfortunately, there is no discount available for this upgrade.

Thank you for choosing ALIENWARE."

 

oooo £187 each was more then Marshall said he paid, i think he paid £325 for both

 

Hmm if the temps of these new cards arent any higher than the 3870's then I think they'll probably work for the M9750 also and i'll test it if i can get my hands on one!
Btw Rob when you do get yours and put the 3870's into your M9750 make sure you reposition the memory chip thermal pads so that they cover the memory chips on the 3870's since the location of the chips is slightly different than on the nVidia cards.

 

i voted the last one if i had the m17

 

Thanks for the heads up on the chip locations. I'll be sure to have what I need at hand.

 

I voted for buying them and putting them in myself.

The last email I got said probably have to wait 2 weeks before we can purchase them in the U.S.

 

well my buyer fell through

I can purchase a pair for any prying Whitebook eyes

 

I probably won't as I am pretty happy with what I have and I have a desktop (hp firebird) that offers a bit more oomph when needed. I can't afford 4850s if I did I would do the job myself though.

 

I must add though I also paid £22 for delivery. Still not bad as I only paid £325 on thursday for them and already they have gone up. Early bird catches the worm lol

 

What are you charging? I have a M17 but just wondering

 

really anything over the cost of them is fine

 

I WILL be upgrading to the 4850s (and will do the job myself) however, not right now, I don't have the money right now. I will around Christmas.

 

i jsut called and pre-ordered mine £322 for the pair inc delivery

 

Sell your 4850s to Rob41 so he can upgrade wifey's 9750 and sell off his 3870s when he buys 4850s for his own M17 himself.

 

i want to buy one to see if it fits in my clevo. since it has the same connectors.

what do you think the chance of it working is?

 

Sounds cool, but the T7200@2GHZ might be a bit of a bottle neck with 4850's.

Plus money is tight right now so I'm gonna have to wait for just one set of 4850's.

I'll have to wait to run some benches and games with the 4850's till then.

 

interesting to see so few people who want to send thier machine off to AW

 

Well, sending the laptop means one month without a laptop

 

and means you have to have the laptop

I have a whitebook, but am gonna try pretty hard to get me a pair - which I will of course be installing myself. Just put an AW lid onto my whitebook so it can run with the big boys now! (and gosh does it look awesome)

 

I thought u were selling ur whitebook?

 

no after he saw the AW lid he decided to keep it

 

ah...

seems as though AW have cancelled all the 4850's that have been ordered so this poll looks to be a mute point now

 

AW is still saying they will replace them for you though if you send your system in. They just won't send them to you to do yourself.

 

note apparently they cancelled ALL orders

 

Yah I can read, but I think everyone needs to just settle down a bit. I asked yesterday in AW forums if I could get an upgrade and the answer was yes, you'll have to send it in though. And they're still listed on both AW USA and AW UK websites as options to pick.

 

i have had enough

im going to sell my M17 and get a clevo

 

Ya the AW lid is pretty awesome, and I remembered I'm poor haha

Seriously tired of getting dicked around by AW though...and I'm not even a real customer (yet)

 

???????????????

 

Well I aim to end up with some of their 4850s and am therefore strongly indirectly affected by their poor management of these upgrades to their real customers lol

 

you arn't the one who will have to fight tooth and nail with them

I am

they don't send out GPU's very often

 

I know. I am making it worth the trouble though aren't I?

 

Scook9, do you have all the A.W. drivers and OSD stuff?

 

if you don't check out my guide

 

Please elaborate. I am running Windows 7 64-bit on this machine and frankly, the ATI 9.6 drivers are amazing....(and don't need mob. modding - which I have found to always yield unstable results)

I have tweaked drivers as needed to try for least stuttering (no synaptics, 2.20 on sound, latest chipset driver from intel) otherwise they are off the OCZ cd that came with barebone(which will be same as AW drivers - both from Flextronics)

And I will check out the guide Moo. You put so much useful information up for us

Side note, would it be worth it to flash AW Bios and mess around with Command Center on my whitebook? Or not worth the trouble? (of course I currently lack the CC software if anyone wants to help me out there)

 

NOOOOOOOOO CC is useless on the M17

 

Ok, that is what I thought but figured I'd ask someone who has actually used it.

What is OSD?

 

on screen display its the little icons that pop up when you change keyboard colors or turn off your wifi ETC...

 

oooooo. so it just gives you a visual for the keyboard fn+f key combos?

Is it proprietary to AW? Why wouldn't OCZ have given us this....

I will get asap tonight haha

 

pretty sure i can be installed on OCZ

 

we find out tonight!

 

that was more of a yes it can i know Whitebook owners that had it installed

 

even better