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    gtx 880m sli 250 a piece worth it for m18x r2?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by panamaniacs2011, Mar 15, 2016.

  1. panamaniacs2011

    panamaniacs2011 Notebook Evangelist

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    gtx 880m sli 250 a piece worth it for m18x r2?
     
    panamaniacs2011, Mar 15, 2016
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  2. Rengsey R. H. Jr.

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    That's an amazing price.
     
    Rengsey R. H. Jr., Mar 16, 2016
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    Very good deal as for me.
     
    GodlikeRU, Mar 17, 2016
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  4. panamaniacs2011

    panamaniacs2011 Notebook Evangelist

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    too late , he sold them :(
     
    panamaniacs2011, Mar 17, 2016
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    Glad you did not waste $250 each on 880M when you already have a better product (with higher performance) in 880M. That would have actually been a minor downgrade for you. I have never seen even one example of 880M SLI that could keep up with 780M SLI in benchmarks. NVIDIA's drivers are a terrible mess for both of them.
     
    Mr. Fox, Mar 25, 2016
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    I have to agree with Mr. Fox here, the performance difference between those two isn't worth the change and the extra money.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Mar 25, 2016
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    I never had the 780's, but after struggling with the 880's for quite a while, I have actually gotten mine to perform pretty good now. I was using the modded drivers for a long time, However recently I was using 353.06, putting global and program settings as well as system setting on max performance and they were pretty darn good. I would still get throttling, but the throttle was only down from max clock to 963, never lower than that.

    The only time they ran lower was during a cut scene when they would sometimes drop but during actual gaming, they were stable and performing nicely overall. Of course, this is without me ever actually trying to overclock and I don't know how the performance compares to what the 780's would do. So after all this time, after getting the performance I wanted, what did I do...I bought a new computer with the 980's. Go figure. Will be saying goodbye to the 880's soon.
     
    Awhispersecho, Mar 25, 2016
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    nice you got them to work , but i thought for a second you where talking about m18x r2 but is see you have a 18 and these cards are supposed to work perfect on that laptop and still you had to struggle a little bit to get them to work properly xD
     
    panamaniacs2011, Mar 25, 2016
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    my biggest regret is ever getting the 880m sli for my r2
     
    Yaka, Apr 13, 2016
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    I'll trade you a set of 780s then
     
    Raidriar, Apr 13, 2016
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    i'd have taken you up on the offer, but really now looking to move on. once i get my desktop up and running and backup my steam/origin stuff to the new pc. i am thinking of putting my R2 and the spares i have accumulated in the classifieds here.
    now i just want something that works, needs less tinkering with and if possible decent build quality

    also recently got burned on ebay about a metabox branded P870DMG. been trying to get in touch with forum user marc gibb ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/members/marc-gibb.674401/) but seems to be falling on deaf ears
     
    Yaka, Apr 13, 2016
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