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    Mobile GTX 980 Desktop

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Rengsey R. H. Jr., Feb 13, 2016.

  1. Rengsey R. H. Jr.

    Rengsey R. H. Jr. I Never Slept

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    Rengsey R. H. Jr., Feb 13, 2016
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    Those are physically bigger than 980m.. That's the card in my Phoenix laptop.
     
    pathfindercod, Feb 13, 2016
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    Scanner Notebook Deity

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    It can be found in the new Eurocom Sky X-9 lappy.
     
    Scanner, Feb 13, 2016
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    It would fit in the M18x R2, but the issue is the extra power connector on the top right of the card. We have no way of providing more power to it.
     
    Raidriar, Feb 25, 2016
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    And, the card would encroach on the area occupied by the heat sink radiator. This sucker is a huge MXM card. You'd have no heat sink that would fit it and have to start totally from scratch. Although you could use some really long heat pipes and fill the secondary GPU spot with heat sink pieces for the primary GPU. It won't support SLI anyhow, so that space could be put to good use for that purpose.

    [parsehtml]<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/WBnlB"><a href="//imgur.com/a/WBnlB">GTX 980 (200W) vs GTX 980M Size Comparison</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/parsehtml]
     
    Mr. Fox, Feb 25, 2016
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    Based on the info I have been able to accumulate on these cards, the fact that they don't support SLI and that 2 x 980m in SLI has higher performance makes the extra work trying to shoe-horn this into an 18" alienware not really worth it.

    In saying that, it's one hell of a card for a notebook!
     
    skindoe, Feb 27, 2016
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    Yeah, it's absolutely one amazing GPU. I don't think any amount of effort would allow it to work correctly in an Alienware. Whatever it is installed in needs to be designed with the intent of using it.
     
    Mr. Fox, Feb 27, 2016
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    Connector looks to be same but someone needs to connect MXM slot 2 power to GTX 980 addiotional power slots using correct pin layout. Then it's still matter of heatsink mod.
     
    GodlikeRU, Feb 28, 2016
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    Yes, MXM connection is the same. The Sky X9 use the same slot for single GTX 980 or other MXM cards. The wider part of the GPU would be facing the front of the laptop, not into the heat sink area as I previously mentioned. You could make 3 heat pipes connecting to the master radiator and 3 more heat pipes to the radiator that would normally be used for the slave GPU. So, a total of 6 heat pipes and two fans for supporting GTX 980. That would be appropriate for cooling. Then it would be a matter of power to the GPU. Seems like a lot of work, but it could work if the auxiliary power is addressed correctly. It would still suck having to deal with the UEFI/BIOS compatibility problems. It would be a terrible shame to go to all that work only to discover you have another horrible throttling mess on your hands like 980M SLI.
     
    Mr. Fox, Feb 28, 2016
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