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    Where can I sell my sli 980ms

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ajrm22, Apr 17, 2019.

  1. ajrm22

    ajrm22 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the clevo p870dmg It has two gtx 980m 8gb I want to sell them so I can buy an gtx 980 mxm to upgrade. Also is it worth the upgrade ? And how much can I get for both cards ?
     
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    Ebay and the like. To a single 980, no unless you find it cheap.
     
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    Oh ok so the upgrade is not worth it ? And do you know where I can get modded bios for this laptop as I want to install hackintosh on this laptop I’ve successfully installed but when installing nivida web drivers I get a black screen
     
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    Not really worth it no, also what do you need bios wise in terms of options? I'm not aware of custom firmware for the machine tailored to that.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 17, 2019
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    best to go with a 1070 instead :) the 980 will give you about 35% performance boost over a single 980M
     
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    Unless you tweak the 980M of course which is another avenue to consider if you have not.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 19, 2019
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    so how much can u squeeze out of a 980M with all vacant mosfet solder points fully populated?

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    At peak about the same as a lightly factory overclocked 980 desktop card.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 20, 2019
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    The issue is more with the VRAM in my experience. I pushed my previous 980M (BGA with all 6 core FETs present) up to 1400MHz at 1.2V, but it was still slower than a stock desktop 970 in bandwidth heavy games like Crysis 3 and Far Cry 4 because the VRAM could not even reach 6GHz stable with that core clock.
     
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    Mine with a little voltage love did slow down with all VRMs populated due to the noise but they still ran at 1500-1550Mhz with a Vmem mod. Not quite the 1750Mhz of the 780M cards but still reasonable.
     
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    impressive, thatll surely close the gap to the 980 desktop and even surpass it lightly :)

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    Yeah they were good cards :)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 21, 2019
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