Prices of M17x GPU's

GTX 260m Primary

price is $359.99


GTX 260m secondary

price is $759.99


Heatsink is $49.99
GPU fan is 54.99

Nvidia GTX 280M Primary Graphics Card

is for $454.99



Nvidia GTX 280M Secondary Graphics Card

is for $954.99


there yall go


you can flash a primary to a slave and save 300$ FYI

 

Damn I regret not droppin another $300 on the 280s.

 

there only 10% @ MAXX faster and in games they are not faster at all

 

your prices not right or dell try to jack me? 3 weeks ago i call and they give me a code for $1920 for two x203r =gtx280m with the sli cable or maybe they droop the price since the 4850's coming soon

 

first off, 4850s on the M17x would be a waste of time

Second off, Moo, are those secondary card prices for the card alone or a set....they seem way out of whack

 

Nope they are correct

And are single cards

I don't have sli cable price

 

Based on the doubling of the price it sounds more like a set that comes with the heatsinks maybe and a SLI cable ?.

 

No I double checked the prices are seperate

The secondary card are more expensive because the common person doesn't know how to flash

 

Well those prices are out of whack then as Scook said . $400 more for the secondary 260 and $500 more for the secondary 280 ?.

 

I tild u why ....

Dell knows average person can't flash so they can charge what ever they want

 

Lol $400 and $500 more still makes 0 sense no matter what dell is thinking/saying . It is 2x times the cost .

 

Alienware tax.

 

AW retardedness

 

I thought that was the customer service? Oh sorry, thats braincell tax.

 

Where'd you get those prices from, moo?

 

Dell duh

double checked with 2 reps though

 

wow, getting 280 SLI with original build was the way to go then!

and boy do I got them puppies barking

 

Mandrake how could you let a qx9300 beat your x9100 @3.5 ?



I though you were special

 

sorry to ruin that for you Moo haha

He still has plenty of time for rebuttle

I have faith in him (and Pman)

Although I will note, I have had higher CPU scores but not with the good GPU score for the overall. I think 13132 was my best CPU score

 

umm... what is flashing?lol...


no,im serious.

Do I need to flash it in the following cases?

1) Going from a Single 260M up to a single 280M (If I bought from Sleey0)
2) Going from a 280M down to a 260M
3) Going from Dual 280M to a single 280M
4) Vice versa of #3 but with 260M

 

I never saw this until now. I took care of business.

yep...waiting on you now.

Thanks for bumping this up. When they say flashing they are referring to programming a new bios to the GPU.

 

Aren't both the graphics card the same one on both sides? - they just flip the connector port right?

 

They are physically the same card. So the only difference is the bios which controls how they work.

Slave
master

Parent
daughter

and the vbios can be changed on the cards, so if you have 2 slave cards you get a master bios then load up dos and just put a new bios on the gpu. Then that gpu is a master so you now have sli

 

You never need to flash unless your trying to make a 260 look like a 280 or vice versa. Or if you want to change some settings like voltage or speeds.

 

So wait, that makes absoluetly no sense!
Dell/ Alienware is charging someone twice the amount for the same (Physically) graphics card?!

Instead of buying the "secondary" GPU, why don't you just buy two of the "primary" and sli them?

This is stupid. What a rip off I say for dell/alienware to make a profit out of those noobs.!


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anyways, can you SLI the M17x into having 3 same GPU, say the 260M?
Would it work and what performance gain you get

 

so in theory i can buy a master card and have it running as my slave card, provided i do a flash?

 

I think there is absolute no difference between slave and master card. They should be interchangeable. You don't even need to flash VBIOS. At least this is true on my m17x-R1. The PCI slots specify one as master and another as slave, but those cards don't control how they work together. I think we can make an experiment, let someone switch two 260s or 280s in SLI without doing any flash see if it works.

If you already have one 260 just get another primary 260 and you saved 300.

I don't know why DELL price their product with this non-sense. Just let you know when they first launches M17x in China, the price of upgrading from 260 to 280SLI is 583RMB(less than 90 USD). That lasted for more than a month. LOL

 

ill be upgrading mine at some point in the near furture to sli then

 

There are differences. Visit notebookcheck.com if you want to see the difference.

Regarding your question you can't fit a 3rd card in the system.

 

That's busneiss

 

well, for testing purposes and if one can get a sli cable that goes 3-way, would you be able to sli all three 260M?

*the extra 260M would just be hanging out and not physically inside the system.

 

SLI doesn't work 3-way...neither does a gpu hanging outside of the system. What are you trying to do?

Edit: Let me qualify that statement by saying it doesn't work 3-way in a notebook.

 

I imagine he believes the integrated 9400m can be exchanged for a 260m, but even if that was possible it'd still be only sli, since the hybrid totaly switches over.

 

He is right theoretically it could sli 3 ways but it's impossible because their is no external mxm port which means bandwidth issues.... And power

 

true enough the 260ms take 75w's each right?

 

thaNK god i purchased 280m sli with the m17x. THATS ALOT MORE EXPENSIVE TRYING TO UPGRADE ALONE whew.

 

So almost double the price for the second one do you have a link Moo? I checked all over the site and chatted with two agents and none could find the link to be able to buy it. Since I´m not in the US I´ll have a friend buy it for me ( I´ll send the money via wiretransfer) so I can´t just call and place the order, I need a link so can tell my friend where/how to buy it. can the sli cable be purchased online? even if I buy the second 260 ( and let myself get ripped off by the price just to have peace of mind and not have to flash anything) I don´t get a cable? That´s the only thing I regret about not buying for my M17x a second GPU

 

Anyone try this yet?

 

One positive side effect for those with second 260M/280Ms is the support for full PhysX. Arkham Asylum is a great way to demo this where you can set PhysX to Normal (GPU), High (dedicated GPU).

My jaw was like /slack /crash /tinkle when I realised it was realtime and not cinematic on the intro - truly amazing and heartening to see!

Trelawney

 

moo. did you call for the 4870. it seems like it would be 500-550 for the master looking at your gpu prices.

 

Yeah I've been wondering about that. I guess none will be available anytime soon considering those who config with them still don't have theirs.

 

Is there a direct link to this on dell's site? I can't find one

 

Last time i called they told me for the secondary 260 its 404 USD. Includes everything.

 

I want to know how much it is for the 4870x2...

 

no information on it. They do not have access to spare parts (the 4870) so dell reps cannot give me any pricing info