jaredhello Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Hey all. I know this thread type has probably already been done but I have a few specific questions to ask about upgrading my laptop. I recently acquired a GTX 870M but upon further realization, it seems that this card is just straight up incompatible with my laptop's hardware. I got it for a really cheap price secondhand because the guy I got it from was having a hard time getting rid of it. I've already done Prema's bios mod, and basically have my computer ready to upgrade to something but I'm unsure what to upgrade it to. I've seen that Kenglish seems to have installed a 7970M into his laptop, would that be a relatively easy upgrade to do and worthwhile from a 670M card? The 7970M seems to be pretty cheap on eBay too! Or, should I wait until Prema gets the mods done for the bios/vbios to allow the GTX 8 series to work in the EM series of laptops? OR, should I try and just get a GTX 9 series card? If I try to get another card though I'd need to get rid of the 870M I have, because otherwise it's basically useless to me and that's how I planned on getting the money to upgrade my laptop in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 as far as im aware the 7xx and 8xx series cards will not be compatible at all for the EM series machines. so its either 7970M/680M or 970M/980M for you Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Only the Alienware/Dell version of the 7970m is cheap on ebay, and unfortunately you can only use the clevo version, which costs more. Considering the higher price of the clevo 7970m cards, you might as well pay slightly more to get a 970m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaredhello Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Could you not flash the vbios to a clevo version, or would that be too difficult to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Sadly that doesn't work as the Dell uses a different spectrum to report thermal values to the mobo...that is not regulated by the vBIOS but hardware as it'll have the same problem even without any vBIOS chip present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaredhello Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Sadly that doesn't work as the Dell uses a different spectrum to report thermal values to the mobo...that is not regulated by the vBIOS but hardware as it'll have the same problem even without any vBIOS chip present.Huh. That's kind of surprising. So there's no way to mod the card to behave like a clevo one, then eh?Hm.Prema, what's your honest take on this? Should I wait for the vbios/bios mod for the 800 series?Or should I try and get an 900 series? I can get a 965M for pretty cheap considering and it's a pretty nice upgrade. Do you know if it would be a compatible card with my laptop or no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 One could maybe mod the mxm board...but no one has done it, yet...If you already have a GTX8 card for EM, then keep it...check your PM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtualdreamz Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Hey guys,I am in a very similar situation - the main difference is that I am running the NP9370/P370EM. My 7970m gave out on me, and I had acquired an 870m gpu since it was a steal - that was before I realized that I should have probably gotten an GTX970m/GTX980m since that card is currently functioning in my EM series notebook. If there is anything I can currently do to get this working, it would be very appreciated.Thanks,-Bri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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