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    Upgrade from P170HM + 485m to ????

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ShadowKntSDS, Apr 14, 2014.

  1. ShadowKntSDS

    ShadowKntSDS Notebook Geek

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    I've been very happy with my 3 year old Sager I bought from XoticPC, but it is starting to show it's age. From all the forums post's I've read, I don't think I want to go down the path of trying to upgrade my P170HM chassis with a newer video card. Most of the cards that are reported to work seem like a lot of effort for small gains =/.

    I am sure any of the current gen Sager's would be fine. What would be a good upgrade from my 485m? Obviously the 880m would most current Nvidia upgrade, but would any of the cheaper cards like the 870m be noticeably faster than what I have now?

    I have a 90% gamut LCD in my current system. Is this something I can move over to a new laptop myself?
     
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    Change thread title to :
    Upgrade from p170hm to 680m and very :)

    Saved heaps of $$$...
     
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    Whats the performance bump to a 680m?
    How painful was the process?
    Where did you get the 680m from?
     
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    Yes well they are excellent questions
    Painful if noob
    Performance is excellent( great overclocking card)
    I bought it from classifieds here at notebook review
    :)
     
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    If I can get one with the right vbios already installed, I'd consider it. All of the retail/ebay ones I've seen are for the EM series. I'm fairly competent assembling components and improvising, but I don't want to deal with blind flashing vbios.

    Anyway, I wouldn't mind a new shell/cpu/etc and the 870m looks to be marginally faster than the 680m.
     
    ShadowKntSDS, Apr 15, 2014
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    The 680M is compatible if it's got a first release bios on it, that includes cards shipped in the EM machines, but there is no easy way to check by looking at the card.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 16, 2014
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    And if it has the wrong bios, I am pretty much stuck blind flashing it?
     
    ShadowKntSDS, Apr 16, 2014
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    Yes, I advise going to a place that is good enough to be able to check for you.
     
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    Any recommendations on vendors?
     
    ShadowKntSDS, Apr 16, 2014
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    The problem is that's skirting the forum rules for me to be pointing to places. Hopefully someone will chime in :)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 16, 2014
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    Looking closer at you signature, I can see how that would be a problem.

    Does anyone know any 680m vendors are willing to check/verify vbios revision?
     
    ShadowKntSDS, Apr 16, 2014
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