Resellers: Upgrade estimate for 9800M GTX SLI from 8700M GT SLI?

Well the title says it all. In a few months I may want to put my first engineering job to use and get a dual GPU upgrade on my D901C.

I assume others will want to upgrade as well.

So do any of you retailers have an estimate for the upgrade price?
Can you buy back our older cards and possibly motherboards if necessary?

8800M GTX owners may want to know how much more they will get for their cards too.

I would also like to get the new rumored motherboard with (multiple?) HDMI and Esata ports.
Its such as shame the chipset supports 6 drives and we can only use half of the connections.

I understand we may have to wait a month or two for this info.

 

As far as I know, you will never get 9800M GTX SLI, cause 9M series does not support SLI. It only supports Hybrid SLI. So, unless it is announced to support SLI, don't bet on it.

 

I don't believe that is the case, Sager have already announced their 9800M SLI notebook.

 

yes a 9800m gt so far no gtx sli has been announced

 

I'm sure there'll be a SLI option eventually. It took NVIDIA a few months to optimize SLI for the 8800M GTX, so it could take awhile.

 

If they have the 9800M GTX SLI, I think I'll want to upgrade too.

 

9800M GTX SLI has been confirmed by Sager, there is just no ETA for when it will happen. I don't have any knowledge of upgrade options.

 

the only reseller i know that will buyback your parts is PCMW, and only if you got their upgrade plan. Xoticpc doesnt do it... i asked. So i assume sager and powernotebooks wont either. WHy would they buy UR parts if you neva bought from them? I wish they'd buy back tho. And theres actually a decent chance, I'd say 50%, that a new motherboard revision will be needed for the 9800m GTX (no sources on that, just hearsay)

 

i have ask one guy from PCMW and he confirm that they will have upgrade plan from 8700M & 8800M to 9800M SLI as soon they are available with no motherboard change only new bios..

 

This guy might buy our old cards.
http://www.mxm-upgrade.com/

There is always a market for these slower cards for people that need replacements and whose computers may not need or be able to run the newer models. Being used is just a better deal for these buyers.

 

If you have a pre-8800M motherboard, i.e., you purchased before the motherboard modifications required to support the 8800M were made (you should be able to check the version number of your motherboard directly on the board itself if you cannot get the info from one of the system utilities like CPU-Z), then it's quite possible that you may need a motherboard upgrade in order to support the 9800s.

However, if you have a motherboard that incorporates the changes made to support the 8800Ms, then you should not need another motherboard upgrade to accomodate the 9800s - the revision to the motherboard for the 8800Ms was done because the pre-8800M motherboard was not properly set up to send the display unit's EDID data to the GPUs. That should have been a one-time revision to the basic D90xC model motherboard, which will ipso facto be contained in later motherboards, and since there was no revision to the D901C itself in connection with the release of the 9800M cards, it is almost certain that you will not need a motherboard upgrade if your current motherboard is capable of supporting the 8800Ms.

 

Mine is a pre-8800M GTX mobo, but if EDID issue is all that is changed, I know how to add EDID overrides to the driver INF files. (simple copy paste if we know the EDID)
I do want a new mobo if it has ESATA and audio supporting HDMI ports.

Its really sad this laptop has EDID issues though. I thought that stuff was over with when they stopped making P4-M laptops. You would think they would have learned by now.