Upgrading a M15x for today's gaming.

Hi all. I'm looking for a very good upgrade to my Alienware M15x, and when i was looking up upgrades for my graphics card(have a 240M atm) i found some card but I've been running in circles on how to buy it, where to buy it, will it run, what to do etc. I thought a 560m will work out but the forum i stumbled into was very complex, and look a nerd fight more than a question answer.(lol) So I thought instead of looking around why wont i ask question instead of look at others. So that's my story. And if any graphics card i want, it would be a nvida.(NO radeons idc if there better or not i was a nvida.) I heard you may have to update your BIOS and all that and i don't know hot to flash one(don't wanna kill my computer) I a ametur leaning to a pro when it comes to computer programing and stuff. but i NEVER did a hardware upgrade. So if there anything I need you guys to do. make it simple. please please make it as simple as possible. Oh, and the games i wont to at the high(or near to high graphics) are:

• BF3(thats a big one)
• World of Tanks
• WoW
• Empie:total war

a few other games but that's basically the ones i play and suck up most of the power and focus of my CPU. my specs are(from speccy):
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 740QM @ 1.73GHz
Clarksfield 45nm Technology
RAM
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 636MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Alienware (CPU 1)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz)
1024MB GeForce GT 240M (Dell)
Hard Drives
244GB Western Digital WDC WD2500BEKT-75A25T0 (SATA)
Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
PLDS DVD+-RW DC-8A2SH
Audio
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
Oh, and btw for a extra FYI I DO have a little fan running on the back of my computer, it really minimizes lag spike and all that.

 

simple answer: buy a new laptop.....

or upgrade to the nvidia 460m that should just be a simple swap (if it was pulled from another dell alienware)you could find one on ebay or here in the market place. if you have ever done a repaste the the only added step would be removing 2 additional screws and pulling the card out. thats about as simple as it gets

 

Upgrading your GTX 240M to the 560M would be an obvious upgrade. It's around 200-250 USD. The 560M upgrade is known to be problem free. There is a thread on this forum about that very card and the upgrade process.

Edit: here is the thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/602655-m15x-gtx-560m.html
Edit: and here is the GTX 560m on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/11078807195...NX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_688wt_1139
Edit: oh yea, this upgrade obviously isn't something that dell officially supports. It still works fine though.

 

I love you, although i did look at the forum post lol.

 

Yea, I did take my bros laptop apart and put it back together for curious reasons And i did watch YouTube videos on how to does this. But i f there anything i know, Alienware makes it easy to get inside.