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    MSI GT780DX GPU Upgrading to 7970m

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by ovslxxx, Jan 17, 2014.

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    Hi mentors,

    im new here and sorry for my bad English as english isnt my mother language. hope its sufficient for you to understand.

    I have a MSI GT780DX with 1.5GB GTX570m and wanted to upgrade it to dell or clevo 7970m. so below is my question:-

    1 (Card) - Which 7970m suitable and will work fine for my notebook? the clevo or the dell one?

    2 (HS) - As i have read what UltraGSM did with his existing heatsink to make the 7970m fit in by shaving off everything and stacks thermal pads on it, but i have no idea how i should stacks them so i hope you guys could help me out.

    3 (Bios) - after installing the cards, it's a MUST to flash the vbios? (i have no idea how to flash a bios and i have never do it before)

    Really hope i could success this dream project of mine with your guidelines.


    Thanks and your help is very much appreciated.
    Melvyn.
     
    ovslxxx, Jan 17, 2014
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    seems like nobody is willing to give a helping hand. :/ thanks anyway.
     
    ovslxxx, Jan 19, 2014
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