Possibilities with an Alienware M15x + AMD Radeon HD 8970M?

Hi everyone, As the title suggests...I have an Alienware M15x. The specs are in my signature below. I have yet to receive the GPU, but I am curious to see how it would pan out on my laptop. Anyone try using an 8970M with an M15x? Would I be able to OC the sucker? I have a 240W PSU and will moderately OC the CPU. If I am able to OC the 8970M, How would I go about doing it? What settings would be ideal in this situation? Thanks in advance!

 

There is no need to OC the 8970M.. It's good enough now for almost all games... Focus on ocing your CPU.

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I haven't seen any m15'x with 8970m out there. I would recommend you to skip the overclocking at the beginning since it may be possible that the 8970m requires a lot of power.

 

From what I read, it seems like the 8970M and the 7970M use the same GPU chip and have 100W TDP. From my understanding, the 8970M has a slightly faster clock (50Mhz or so) than the 7970M. I want to see if it will be stable on my M15x at stock first. Once I find that it is, I will post here. However, if it is indeed stable at stock, how would I go about OC'ing it just a little bit? I'm thinking 1000/1500Mhz from the stock 950/1450Mhz config. Thanks in advance!

 

Do you know if its a Dell card or a Clevo card flashed with a Dell BIOS? Hopefully you won't run into any Enduro problems.
You probably want to head over to Tech Inferno as there are a few people there that have 8970Ms in M15x.
Obviously svl7 got it to work

Alienware M15x

 

I don't know if it is a Dell one or not. Maybe you can tell from the description/pics of this link? Electronics, Cars, Fashion, Collectibles, Coupons and More | eBay I hope this card will work, because it costs a pretty penny. I will head over to their forums to see what info can be found. Thanks in advance!

 

It will work no question about it. I am hopeful it is Dell as the ebay add says it is for Alienware laptops.

If it is a clevo card you may have to manually control fans but that should be about it. Hopefully it is dell. I also recommend asking SVL 7 specially about the card you got on techinferno and here he pops in occasionally he might be able to tell just from looking at the card on ebay.

 

That's good to hear. I will check out the forums over at Tech Inferno. Hopefully there is good news! I will keep everyone updated.