AMD 7970M MXMs in stock at Eurocom

They received a shipment of them within the past hour. I do not know how many, but I ordered enough for my immediate needs.

There are several threads here discussing getting the 7970M working in various laptops. The M17x R2 I'm typing on now has one in it and other than fan control, it works fantastically. Doubled the battery life when I moved from the 6970. The 7970M idles somewhere around 4-5 watts. When I first installed it, I ran it for 2 hours with a big passive heat sink - no fan. Just web surfing & office apps, but the heatsink it came with barely got warm. I was suitably impressed.

No, I haven’t gotten CFX working, but haven’t tried very hard.

Web site lists $560 CAD, $514 USD.

2.17 TFLOPS and 153 GB/sec DRAM bandwidth makes it the fastest GPGPU MXM anywhere, by a LONG shot. OpenCL FTW. It runs on (almost) everything. Even FPGAs!

Disclaimers:
1) I am not affiliated with Eurocom in any way other than a satisfied customer over the past few years
2) I make no claims as to its functionality in your laptop. It works in mine, YMMV
3) I do not know what the vBIOS configuration is so your LCD (LVDS), ARGB or DVI displays may or may not work.
4) The power while running flat out is at least 75 watts. Cool it appropriately.

 

Several PMs asking for the Eurocom web site. While Google is your friend, here's the process:
Go here
Upgrade Center in the top bar
Accessory and Upgrade Pricing in the middle
Set currency to your local
10'th option down: VGA Graphics Options:
2GB GDDR5: AMD Radeon HD7970M (Wimbledon XT)

 

Here is a link that will get you past some of the steps to order. Their website is weird.
http://web.eurocom.com/ec/ecu_model_config1(1,0,0)

 

LOL I am curious how much is enough and what needs you really have?

 

Just enough to almost cover the bed, so I can be surrounded by them while I sleep...

 

hahaha you are one twisted individual. Bet you kiss them goodnight too

 

You mean you don't??? And you call me twisted!

 

Do they come with the cooler and back plate?

 

Nice link thanks for sharing!

 

+1 on do they come with everything needed to install?

 

I'm wondering the same. I'll be going from 2x 4870 so will I be getting everything I need or do I need to buy additional stuff? (screws, heatsink etc etc?)

 

Pretty much the same exact pricing with the 5870M and 6900Ms which came before it.

 

I'm sure it wont come with a heatsink for free, but I think we can safely assume it will come with a backplate.

Usually you have to use your old heatsink or modify it to work.

 

Mine arrive Tuesday - I'lll let you know what they come with. I do know mine will include some kind of heatsink. I will promptly remove and chuck all of them.

Different laptops have (some very) different cooling solutions. Eurocom isn't going to include a heatsink for all of them. Probably just for the laptops they sell.

 

Alright, let me know what comes included. I am wondering where to get a m17x r2 heatsink for 7970m. Couldnt find any on ebay :O Current one's I got is for crossfire 4870.

 

Here's the heat sinks that came with all mine. I was surprised the box was 16 lbs. Now I know why.

Just for reference, I've used the same M17x R2 heat sinks for at least 10 different MXMs and they have all worked fine. The copper pad is large enough to cover even some of the monster NVIDIA MXM chips. I didn't run those power hogs long because they have memory on the back too and those chips get zero cooling.