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    PC Specialist 17,3'' Octane II - GPU Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Dark_Ansem, Nov 17, 2015.

  1. Dark_Ansem

    Dark_Ansem Notebook Consultant

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    Hello everyone
    I just got this pretty laptop here
    https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/octaneII-17/

    and while it is far too early to be dissatisfied, I want to know what do you think about upgrading the 980M to the Notebook-980, when it is going to be possible, and/or to install it additionally. The customer service is made of incompetent people.

    Does anyone have experience with it?
     
    Dark_Ansem, Nov 17, 2015
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    Dark_Ansem Notebook Consultant

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    Update: the answer I got from customer service is "Unfortunatley as we are not provided the tools from clevo to upgrade the garphics card we are not able to do it as we would need to flash the V-BIOS to do so. Please accept our apologies for this."

    Notwithstanding the butchery of English language, from my limited experience I believe a workaround can be found, in order to be able to upgrade the GPU. Matter is, I don't know how. What data should I research, also concerning my own components, in order to determine my possibility of upgrading?
     
    Dark_Ansem, Nov 18, 2015
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    Niaphim Notebook Consultant

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    A desktop 980 takes 120 to 200W, so you can't just plug and play it in a standard MXM 3.0b slot. As far as I know, there is a dedicated cable to power up the GPU in P870DM - the only Clevo model that is available now.
     
    Niaphim, Nov 21, 2015
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    If your not happy with 980M, go and sell your laptop and get a desktop... For the forseeable future the 980M will be the best mobile card and only one that will work in your P771DM...
     
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    Dark_Ansem, Nov 21, 2015
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    100 is a stadart for MXM 3.0b gpus. GTX 980 "desktop" currently exists in 200W (P870DM), 180W(upcoming P775DM), 165W (don't know) and 120W (those are likely to be used in SLI setups of Clevo and MSI).
    First, there is little magic, so as a rule of thumb, the less power the same card uses, the less powerful it is. The 120W is going to be somewhere between a 980m and a "full" 200W" (I believe I've seen it being about 10-15% better than a 980m in some tests I had found, but also can be my imagination).
    However, I'm pretty sure that you'll have to use some additional setup to put any of those in your laptop.
    I'm currently considering getting the very same laptop and switching to a Pascal MXM card in ~2 years or using the Thunderbolt eGPU setup. So I guess, those are your possibilities. Don't count on 980 much I think
     
    Niaphim, Nov 21, 2015
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    Pascal MXM card?
     
    Dark_Ansem, Nov 22, 2015
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    or buy a Xotic :D
     
    Dark_Ansem, Nov 23, 2015
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    He means a next generation Nvidia card, assuming it conforms to the same standards.
     
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    That is also a possibility...
     
    Dark_Ansem, Nov 23, 2015
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