upgrade from 280m to 680m

so i have a D900F clevo notebook with full fledged desktop cpu support, i just ordered a GTX 680m from eurocom to upgrade from my GTX 280m im curious to what kind of performance difference ill get. to be honest i considered the gtx 280m decent as i played gta 4 on high and tomb raider maxed out, in dx10 of course do to lack of DX11 but my laptop is useless when unplugged because it brings my GPU down from 583mhz to 383mhz and my cpu from 2.66ghz to 1.54ghz. obviously with an i7 im not too concerned by that but i want to be able to unplug my laptop and get great perfomance. so i guess my point of what im saying is will my purchase of the gtx 680m be worthwhile even when taking 200mhz off the clock speed when unplugged. because this was a $813 investment for the graphics card. and how big of a jump will i get from the 280m to the 680m

 

So you spent $813 on an 680M? If true that is a very bad deal because it can be found on ebay for about $500, and even the much faster 780M is cheaper than $800. ( NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB DDR5 for Clevo Alienware Upgrademonkey in Stock | eBay).
Still if you don't mind spending all that money I guess it should suit your needs since it is at least a few times faster than your old card.
It is best for you guys to first post in here before buying things though, as there are great new cards coming out and not only will they be priced similar to current once and perform much faster, but they will also reduce the price of older cards. The Radeon R9 295X is supposed to be here by next month, and it is supposed to be cheaper and about 20-30% (estimates) faster than GTX 880M (which is a bad card because of overheating issues, don't buy it). Then a month after that in October the GTX 980M is supposed to launch, but we have no idea how well it will perform but it will be faster and run cooler than 880M, but don't expect it to be cheaper than R9 M295X.

 

i need a custom heatsink for my laptop for the 680m and its the best my laptop will support which is alot cheaper than buying a new laptop, the 680m requires the heatsink because underload my 280m gets to 96celcius, believe me i know its a bad deal but its a better deal than buying a new laptop

and aside from the graphics card in my laptop currently i have a more than capable laptop 24gb ram,1920x1200 screen,1.5tb,i7 920

 

New heatsink is probably why they are charging so much, and that 16X10 screen is really nice, so changing a laptop would most likely downgrade the screen anyways.

 

its a shame theyre gone, i think my laptop was the last high performance laptop with a 16x10 ratio :/

 

jumping from a 5 year old gpu, will it even work?

 

Too bad the laptop presumably won't handle something newer. Still that's a great improvement. Hope it will run cool enough.

 

amazingly yes it will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-iYtRNeekw i didnt expect such long term support but i am more than happy

no kidding, the 280m got up to 96C which is 204.6F and thats just wayyyyy to hot for comfort and that was only a 75w card the 680m is a 100w card

 

Hi, i have the clevo x8100 and have upgrade from 285m to 680m and now I am very PLEASED performance never before seen on my notebook and use the best games like gta iv (+ mods and enb), prepar3d v2, cod etc at the highest quality!

I strongly recommend you replace the GPU because the 285 is really a crap !!!!
I have your same notebook and I knew that the maximum RAM I could install was 8gb and 24gb instead I see that you have, how did you do?


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well i have 3 8gb ddr3 ram sticks im not too sure whether or not youre refering the x8100 as the same notebook as they are a little different but if youre wondering how i did install 24gb ram there is another ram slot under the keyboard

 

All is true except that the 780M isn't "much faster" you OC both and the difference isn't so massive. A decent 15-20% bump no more.

Anyways OP I wouldn't worry the 680M will run MUCH cooler than the 280M and will blow it away in performance! Also the cpu could do with upgrading these days. Back in the day 920 was good. Now you should pop a 6 core 980 in there ... providing your cooling is up to it. You will get much better perfomance in games. My i7 920xm is similar to your chip and at nearly 4ghz it makes a big difference with my 680M!

 

from what ive heard the 680m can easily achieve 780m speeds with an overclock is this true?

and the 970 - 980x is coming next on my list. Trying to max this laptop out rather than buy a new one haha, figure it's cheaper

 

Good idea! The first gen i7 chips especially desktop ones scale very well in terms of performance even vs latest gen mobile! Heat is another matter though haha!

 

How in the world does a 100W 680M "run MUCH cooler" than a 75W 280M, especially considering it was already overheating like crazy for the OP?

 

The 7970m ran much cooler than the 6990m even though both were rated for 100w. 280m is old power management tech has advanced quite a bit. It might use the same amount if power but still run cooler.

 

Have you considered a Xeon L5639 instead of a 970/980? They're dirt cheap thanks to massive datacenter dumping and seem to OC just as well.

 

Well, at least he can underclock/volt the 680M and still have a much better performance.

The 280M is a Telsa architecture, that came before Fermi.

 

that is also an option, been thinking xeon but i think there was one difference between them and the i7 that made me look at the i7 more, maybe im just imagining things but ill look into it more

 

well technically it should run cooler because im getting a double heatsink instead of the 280's single heatsink so the temps should be great

 

Yeah I saw the video on youtube. Pretty neat solution! 2 heatsinks and 2 fans cooling the card. You could probably stick even a hot 880M (if it works) and keep it cool!

I wonder which PSU you intend to use though? For certain the 220W PSU will not do. My 920xm/680M combo max out the 210W PSU I use to the point where it shuts off while gaming around 250W. The 920xm is overvolted but I am pretty sure the 980x will use even more power!

 

Yeah with the 980x the OP will probably need a 330W adapter at least...

 

well in the video with the stock 220w he was using a 965 extreme so ill just have to see, i might have to order a 300w adapter from eurocom

 

well now that i think about it they have a GTX 480m version of my laptop stock and thats a 100w card that ran with a stock i7 980x soooooo maybe it will pull it off but it will for sure push my powersupply to its end