Alienware 18 - need to upgrade help

So, I recently discovered that you can now get a GTX 1080 specifications (however I have yet to find a retailer or a site that sells only the GPU). Any link to a Web site or a retailer would be nice. With such a high performance GPU I'll have a better processor as well. But I'm afraid that my laptop cooler will not be able to control the heat. Obviously, I don't want to fry my computer so confirmation on the amount of heat to a better GPU and CPU would be nice as well. Thermal paste is recommended? In addition, it would be best to get an electronic store to install components or would it be easier to install them myself (I don't trust myself enough)?
Any help at all would be appreciated.

Classes for GPU and CPU:
NVIDIA GTX 770M
Intel Core i7-4700MQ

The largest manufacturer of notebooks MXM format video cards is Clevo - they provided systems to Dell for sale like Alienware and provide Sager, Falcon Northwest, AVA, Eurocom and others.

You'd probably wise to see if Dell frees a GTX1070 or 1080 to your system first - there is no guarantee it won't work at all, and with GTX970 MXM cards still sells for more than $1,000, you can bet the 1070 years will be $1,500 or more each, is not a negligible amount of money to play on the upgrade.

Eurocom sold kits of MXM modernization with the equipment required for building Clevo systems - they are trying to GTX1070 if you have $1,500 or more waiting in the wings.

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