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    Area 51 M5790 GFX Card

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Bonesy, Dec 14, 2010.

  1. Bonesy

    Bonesy Newbie

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    Hi i have an Alienware M5790...
    The original x1900 died and has been temporarily replaced with a geforce go6600,i was curious as to what i can fit in there? Ive been looking at a radeon 4650HD but not sure if it will go?any help would be awesome!
     
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    Marvie100 On a Mission

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    Compatible Video Cards (if you can even find one anymore):
    * 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1900
    * 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1800
    * 256MB NVIDIAｮ GeForce Go 7600
    You can look at anything higher than the X1900 all day long, but they just will not work in that fairly old machine.
     
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    Bonesy Newbie

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    Really? Howcome? its still an ok laptop,2.4 dual core intel,4gig ram,even supports MXM-III? Sorry im a desktop man not a laptop guy lol
     
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    Well MXM-Upgrade seems to think it might work, I just have a hard time believing 1) your BIOS will recognize it, and 2) that it will actually be utilized to its full capacity, and 3) that your current heat sink will be sufficient enough to cool it, and 4) that you will actually get enough power to it. Might be worth a shot as long as you can return the card if it doesn't work correctly.
     
    Marvie100, Dec 14, 2010
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  5. Bonesy

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    Thanks,i ended up getting a 8600gt as somewhere else on this forum it says it will work...I need bios updates for this m5790?? 2.06w and 2.07w but for THE M5790 and NOT the M5500i - r3??i saw a member on here with a m5790 and cant findhim now :/
     
    Bonesy, Dec 23, 2010
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    Ferrari Notebook Evangelist

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    I have to agree that the heatsink would not be sufficient to cool it. The laptop(at least mine) already suffers from bad overheating problems which caused 2 X1800's to burn out in my M5790.
     
    Ferrari, Dec 23, 2010
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    rive0108 Notebook Consultant

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    The m5790 runs hot- there is nothing you can do other than invest in a good chiller. Heat will kill your notebook in a heatbeat. If your not running a chiller, your just pissing your money away.

    The best chiller I found is the NZXT Cryo LX- it works and considering my system is going on 4 years (with the original GPU/CPU) attests to the neccessity (and benefit) of using a good chiller. I have run on a chiller from day 1
     
    rive0108, Jan 2, 2011
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    hey bonesy where did you get your 8600gt at?
     
    triadskate, Jan 18, 2011
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