Lowering the price of 980m

Any suggested time frame of this coming down in the near future? My AMD 7970m on my AW 17x r4 is still kicking ass at 1080p with 50-60 fps, but I'm starting to have to run in the high/medium range on current games to maintain the same fps and res.

 

They don't tend to come down. I'd anything they increase in price as availability goes down. RJTech has them for 720 bucks. To give you an idea, the Fermi 480M is 865 bucks.

 

It's not likely to come down any time soon if ever, you just gotta save up enough money for it. It's a fantastic card that performs well and runs cool.

 

Thanks guys.

 

The only real way is through ebay or a secondhand seller. But those aren't wholly guaranteed like a buy from RJTech or Eurocom would be. And yes, they really don't go down in price. You might be better off tossing in Pascal or whatever AMD's notebook performance line is called later this year or next year.

 

Yeah, I can attest to the fact the prices are not coming down any time soon. I've had nothing but bad luck with these 980ms, I've replaced both of mine twice under the warranty. Of course the warranty ran out and another one of the 980ms fried, and I would have to fork over 700-1000U$D for another one (NOT GONNA HAPPEN). So, I went the external GPU route, I'm using a desktop GTX 970 at the moment. Every game works on Ultra, getting 45-55 FPS. I had a titan x working, but my friend wanted it back. Makes my curious as to the possibility of looking into getting a Pascal in the future, or at least a GTX 980 ti. Whatever I decide it seems these desktop GPUs, except for the Titan X are all cheaper than a single 980m card.

 

How does one install an external gpu on the R4? I don't have the alienware amp on this, im not sure if it's compatible or anything else like that.
Cause I'd love to pay half for a desktop gpu, than double for a weaker version on a M

 

GPU prices never come down. Prices on RJTech for proof.

 

Yeah, I looked that up today and couldn't help but laugh at it.
I get now, that it's just going to be that price for good.
But it didn't hurt to ask the community I guess. It was a shot in the dark

 

Man, GTX 480M for $1200... what is this...

 

They even had 480M in stock leftover?

 

mobile gpu tend to drop slowwww, I sold my 6970m for ~180 last year.

 

The problem that keeps these GPUs so high (and even immediately increases their prices after manufacturing stops) is because many systems are stuck with the GPU that they came with. For a long time, Alienware was the only one that could be reliably upgraded to a new card. Clevo BIOSes would fail to POST if the card was unknown to it. Clevo fixed that in the SM-A models as I found out when my 880M got a bad flash and my old 260M from my M17xR1 actually did POST but didn't have display output because of the 120hz display not being supported. OEMs pull cards and hold onto them for warranty exchanges. The rest of the cards left out there get ridiculous markups.

When my 880Ms failed for the second time I tried to get Sager to sell me 780Ms. They were 125 more a piece than the 880Ms for that very reason so I opted to get 980Ms instead.

With all the problems I've had with this machine though, I still wonder if I made a mistake canceling my Alienware 18 order with 290X crossfire though...

 

The release of Pascal will lower Maxwell prices but don't expect a huge drop.

 

Well, thanks for the tips. Gonna go ahead and get a 3940XM and the 980m, because I really wanna get balls deep in the oculus.
Someone here sells the 980ms, who is it?

 

There's a landfill full of GTX 480Ms, in an unmarked location. Might literally have been the biggest mobile GPU flop of all time. Nah, it definitely was.

The NBR forum was on fire when its details came out. Good times. The huge number of cores dropped our jaws, but then we noticed the comically low core and memory clocks.