R2 Alienware18 upgrade question

So I know I can improve it up to 980 M which is awesome, but that ones and I don't have the money a bit but I am happy that I can pass on this laptop graphics cards, so it can come the evidence. In any case, what do I need to upgrade. He seems to have a lot of cards on ebay as thermal paste and all those extra parts. Do I need to get a new heatsink for each graphics card... ETC so what exactly need update my graphics card?

Thank you

To answer your questions.

  • You probably have the 3-pipe heat sinks (I think that they are delivered in standard in the m18x / 18), so all you would need for extra is thermal compound and thermal pads, btoht that are inexpensive to acquire. Updates require either a vBIOS modded and driver modded, which can be acquired in notebookreview forum or forum of techinferno (under the Alienware section)
  • Regarding the process of upgrading hardware, you swap the MXM GPU (the old and the new and better).

You said 18 R2, but there is no such cell. There are the m18xR2 (mobile 2012) and 18 (portable 2013-2015). If the latter, the upgrade process is a simple plug-and-play. If in the first case, then you will need a Clevo vBIOS.

There is also the GTX 970 m, which is less expensive and powerful (more powerful than the GTX 780 m and GTX 880 m). It would be a good option.

Note: the linked thread is old, before 18 has been recently updated with GTX 970 m and GTX 980 m GPU.

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