Hello. I was thinking of replacing my old motherboard with GT 555M for the new one with GT 650M. Can anyone advice me what is the model number of the R2 motherboard? Is it possible to upgrade my rig that way? Or in case anyone would know where is it possible to buy that board I'd love to find out. Or if you got any additional info all is welcomed.
Thank you very much.
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MOBO 650M 2.0GB (Systems shipped w/ Win7) - Y7YHC
As far as I know the board fits, not sure about compatibility though as I haven't done it before. -
Is it possible to order it directly from Dell? And it has same i7 CPU in it i guess no?
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Sure, send me a PM with your service tag, phone number and a link to this thread
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I too would be interested in this. Definitely update us on how it goes. Is the CPU on the motherboard or is it separate? And if it is on the motherboard, I believe I remember it's upgradable, so would it be possible to take the Sandy Bridge CPU and put it on the R2 motherboard?
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I was just cleaning my laptop and had to take the board off to put on new paste so yes, CPU slot is on board, but you just take it off and put to new one. i7 should be compatible with both boards I believe.
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Ivy and Sandy use the same socket, so you could switch your CPU without any problems... But they redesigned quite a few things concerning heat management, meaning that the heatsink from the R1 won't fit the R2 mobo. There maybe are other things that I don't know about, but if you really try it, let us know how it goes
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Someone said the IO board had to be switched on the m18x R1 to R2 when they tried a mobo replacement. I honestly don't know anything about that, but just might be another thing to keep in mind.
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If you can upgrade the motherboard can you upgrade the GPU by upgrading the motheboard?
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Looks like I'd need to buy r2 heatsink also, shouldn't be problem. Thanks for letting me know Mastaa
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This of course is not covered under the warranty, tech support will only troubleshoot the original configuration. -
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I've never replaced one myself, but I think it won't be much different from a standard repasting procedure, just with swapped heatsinks at the end.
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Will the R3 MOBO fit in an R2????????????!
BF4 Multiplayer at E3 got me excited -
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