Upgrade Ssd Alienware M15 R7

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looking to just upgrade my M15x much as possible as a project ( cuz i like learning :3 n tinkering ) will list what it has and what i done so far with questions. the point of this post is see every possible upgrade i could do then do it. i dont however wana do big moding jobs on it, but i am ok with small ones. i have taken apart the computer 3 times to clean,upgrade and just paint the outside.

CPU: what is better GHz or the cacha? like 2GHZ L3 8mb VS 2.8GHz L3 4mb, the 2.8GHZ also runs at a lower watts ( 55 >35) but also has a GPU on it may need a heat sink mod so both tops get love. also not fully get what makes a cpu work or not work with a motherboard then the chipset? googled n got chipset for some site to see what CPUs it can use cuz it only asked for whats the chipset.

GPU: easy this is the most behinde part of the labtop and what is the best upgrade can i do with this? seems ubuntu likes nvidia more then ATI but if ATI has a much better card then i am willing to suck up with lil bad drivers still ubtuntu gets a good ones for ATI

RAM: got two 4Gbs on it, people say they are doing 16gbs with two 8gbs. some say its pure luck if it works or not..... this cant be true that its lucky. has to be a way to know what will work. the motherboard has the volt options for ram 1.5V 1.6V 1.7V

MOTHER: petty sure i cant upgrade this lol. i did however upgrade the BIOs A02 to A09. got ton better at cooling. this labtop was my friends that gave me it, had huge heating issues. not agisnt modded BIOs too but what i found seem to not be much better then the A09 stock

STORAGE: hard drive to SSD. i know i will get a 1tb or more to give better room to both windows n ubtuntu. right now i got 2 500gbs, one windows 7 the other is ubuntu. what is the fastest storage and is it wroth it?

ETC: when i got this. didnt have a battery or a charger, got both on ebay. both was ever used and in great shap. labtop runs with 150v right now too. cooling wise. it ran SOOOOO HOT but the huge BIOs update fixed it. now its not even close to how hot it was. now sits at 60 to 70 on cpu. the gpu is runing at 50. both temp checks are aftering idling on tf2 for HOURS, like 4. i also added lil legs to the back of it n added a vent right over the top of CPU n GPU. cooling wise is great so if any upgrades make it got alot hotter, will be ok. i even got fully new heat sinks for both cpu n gpu ( and yes added new thermal paste, it was sooo dry n crusty)

Win 10 is the result of all the improvements that were first attempted with the introduction of Win 8. Most of the problems in Win 8 were resolved and Win 10 is the result. It also has better built in security than any previous Win OS. You need also to bear in mind that support for Win 7 ends in 2020, Win 8.1 ends in 2023 and for Win 10 it is 2025.

3. With regard to all the other suggested performance improvements by hardware upgrades, it becomes a cost /benefit decision. Is it better to spend the money on hardware which pushes the motherboard to its limits and which in the end may cost nearly as much as a new laptop which has better performance and features or buy the new laptop. Ultimately it all comes back to the motherboard and what it can stably support. It will become too frustrating if it is pushed too far and is not running smoothly just so that the performance is fractionally better.

GPU: Nvidia GTX 980M is technically last top card for this model, but needs modifying for peak performance and most importantly to run cool: svl7/johnksss vbios (Prema vbios will make it run too hot), 1 x copper shim during install, and dual power supply's as its very power hungry.

GTX 680M can be found for a little less $ and still excellent at current games. Need to modify .ini file to install any of these 3 cards (not too difficult). Last supported Dell/AW card was 460M without needing to modify.

^^^^Can find all these parts on Ebay, just have to search and be patient, hardest item to find is original 9 cell battery. GTX 980M $400 and up, GTX 970M $300 and up, GTX 680M can be found for $250 or less.

Hi. I'm new on this FQ. I had m15x. Already i upgrade disk on SSA Adata 250GB and i want chance a GPU. its possible to but a card (min 4 GB) what i just can plug them install drivers and it will work ? I will need them buy a more powerfull power supply? I hear a lot about upgrade GPU bios. I'm not a specialist with laptops :/ On YT a few guys just change a GPU them instal a drivers and it work. It that easy ?

Hey buddy, I'm new on this forum too. And I, like you, am in process of upgrading my m15x. I've already upgraded my HD to SSD, 240 watt PSU, 8GB (total) RAM and i7-940XM CPU. I'm not sure how beneficial it would be to upgrade my RAM to 16 GB, but I know for a fact that my GPU is the bottleneck to the computer's performance. I've scoured the web for more info on GTX 970m upgrade on a m15x. Only to find a very limited knowledge on this configuration. After the answer provided by hps1 on this forum, and a YouTuber (Marc M). I've decided to move forward with the purchase of the GTX 970m. It's a daunting task, because the GPU upgrade kit is expensive! Moreover, it's not guaranteed it'll work; not enough people have tried this. If it doesn't work out, I'll have to eat up the cost! The arrival of my GPU is Friday. I'll will inform you of the result on the upgrade. Best wishes!

they are, and its cheaper and less hassle to sell and buy a machine that has a 970 or 980 in it already, something like the msi phantom will cost you about 400 quid, and come with a 6th gen i7 cpu which is much better than you will get out of an m15x at the same price for parts, and alot better power wise

Eh, tinkering is fun though. Just upgraded mine from i3 370 to i7 - 840qm 4 to 8gbs of ram - 1tb SSD and currently trying to decide which MXM GPU to upgrade to. Thinking 970m of course, but it may be possible to get a 1050 or even a 1060 working in this machine according to one Reddit thread.

Actually I found something very interesting with my Alienware 17. The GPU IS on a separate card and is NOT soldered to the motherboard. I had not intended to find that out, but back in 2014 the Nvidia GPU stopped functioning. I tried everything and had even completed a new order for the Alienware 17 R4 I've had and have been using heavily since 2017.

Well I had already ordered a new system so I figured it wouldn't matter much as I had all my data backed up on external SSDs. Well, I had gone through every single solution and none worked so I figured I'd go for broke, disconnected all the power and dissipated any static charge that might have been left. Well, the GPU was on a card that connected onto the main board. Well after removing the GPU, I used the iGPU on the Core i7 processor, I restarted, then shut the system down again, unplugged all, and clipped the GPU back into place, reconnected power and leads and voila, my brother is now my sister, Padfoot and Wormy back. Though I was disqualified, it ended up earning me a great deal of respect, especially amongst older adults (who were yet become of age) or have fun with upgrading my 1060 with a 1080ti. Though it's now over 5 years old and I have a newer system I bought a couple of months ago, with an upgrade to the GPU, the old girl will still have plenty of life left in her yet.

Having only lightly used this great desktop over the years, I decided to see if I can upgrade her in hopes of some additional usefulness for a few more years. I currently have 2 Nvidia GTX1080's in SLI that can still run most games at almost maximum resolution. However, getting back into MSFS 2020 again, it's starting to cause some lagging in the graphics department.

RTX 3090 or 3090 Ti, or RTX 4080/4090 if you do not mind the price. This case can support a triple card width high power gpu. Liquid cooling of gpu would be a plus, or add more front intake fans (default is two 120 mm fan).

No . . . this would not cause an issue with updating your graphics card. The issue is whether or not your CPU is causing a bottleneck for your graphics card. That would depend upon what CPU you have . . . and to what graphics card you choose to upgrade.

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