Need to replace my fried graphics card - Question about what will fit?

Hello everyone.

I have an Xotic Sager NP8170/Clevo P170HM Review - Specs, Performance and Benchmarks

My Radeon 6990M on it recently fried and I need to replace it. I'm looking to replace it with a cheap card bought from eBay.

I was thinking either this: Clevo Alienware NVIDIA GTX 560M w Heatsink | eBay

or this: Dell Alienware M17x HD6990M AMD 2GB GDDR5 OC w M17x R3 4 Heatsink | eBay


But I have one concern. Here's my question: are graphics card essentially one in the same? A GTX560M pulled from an Alienware, for example, will work with a Sager? I'm worried about not getting the right fit for my computer.

I would like to fix my issue in the cheapest way possible. Buying a replacement from the manufacturer is double the cost of what's on eBay, so that's why I ask .

Thank you very much for your help.

 

as far as i know dell cards do not work in clevo laptops but wait for the experts to confirm this.

 

Hmm... It should... I've been tried AMD FirePRO M5950 and M4000 from Dell on my Acer - worked great.

 

but acer is not clevo. the OP has a clevo/sager.

GreenFloyd have you thought about the baking method in a oven. it melts the solder which reconnects the contacts and resurrects the gpu.

http://www.overclockers.com/the-oven-trick-repairing-your-broken-video-card-with-an-oven/

 

Wow, that sounds mad, but I might give it a shot if I can. The problem is finding an oven. I live in Japan where such things are basically unheard of, but I may give it a shot. I'm not too confident in my abilities to bake a video card, though, in which case I'd still like to know what kind of card I can buy second-hand that will work in my computer... hmmm

Thanks for the help.

 

You need to find a clevo card, dell cards will not work in a clevo.

 

whatever you do dont do what a young lad done about 4 years ago and followed the steps except for one important part, he used a microwave and almost burnt his house down and then came back complaining it didnt work. felt quite sad (actually i was wetting myself with laughter) explaing you dont put metal in a micro.

i thought i was right but i wasnt 100%. thanks for clarifying.

 

Thanks for the help, and sorry to bother again, but do you think this card: Clevo Alienware NVIDIA GTX 560M w Heatsink | eBay

will fit in my computer? I'm worried because it's from a different model Clevo 15" laptop, but my computer is a 17". I assume it would be the same, but I don't know about the heatsink configuration.

Thanks once again.

 

All modern big gaming laptops are MXM 3.0b which a 560M and your 6990M both are, but if it will actually POST being an Alienware card vs a Clevo card is a completely different story. That and you might need to buy a different heatsink as you are going from an AMD card vs Nvidia card.

 

If I take my current 6990m card out now, won't the heatsink come out with it? I'm a little confused about that. This card on ebay has the heatsink already attached to it. I thought it would be a fair switch of taking out my 6990m (which has heatsink attached) and putting in the 560m (with heatsink attached). Am I wrong on this?