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    New brother for my R1 and R2

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by murphey1965, Feb 10, 2015.

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    murphey1965 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi , been lucky enough to be able to pick up a new as in new Alienware 18 this one is fitted with the 4930 unlocked , 780 Sli , 4 ssd in Raid , 32gb ram its old stock but unused , now i know these are very different too the original and the best ie the R2, which was my baby until the cards decided to die on me , so my previous models were both installed with dare i say it without swearing AMD , so have no experience with Nvidia as in software or hardware so basically what i am asking is ...what do i need to do to get this baby singing ...
    If anyone would be kind enough to give me a run down of what i need to doon the 18 i would appreciate it ...thank you ...
     
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