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Hi I am finally getting around to trying to replacing my dead 6970m in my laptop. I have been looking around and I see there are a lot of GPU upgrade options to do. I would like to have a pretty much plug and play with the current amd heat sink option if that is possible. Switching over to an nvidia card seems to have extra steps needed with new x-bracket and maybe different heat sink. I haven't kept up on laptop gaming for a few years now and just want to get back in to playing on my machine.
is the 7970m the best option still for AMD or is there a better one out now?
It looks like ebay is the pretty standard for these cards is there any where else that is crazy high price to buy from?
I'm still on windows 7, if that helps anything
7970m upgrade on R3, black screen
in Alienware M17x / AW 17
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Bought a used tested 7970m card off eBay and installed into my machine today. All I’m getting is a black screen. Not even showing up to boot into the bios. I swapped my old card back in and it booted up fine still. I followed the old guide on notebook review and set my display to PEG and turned of integrated graphics.
Any advice on what I should try next or just try and return the card.