suall_lh Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 NVIDIA has annouced the new gtx 980 for laptop. Any idea when will it be officially released? Do you think the alienware 18 will be capable of running these monsters in sli? I have enough money for a pair of gtx 980m but is it better to wait and invest in this new graphic card ? They said the performance will be on par with the desktop version so it would be awesome to have these graphic cards running in sli. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans123 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 NVIDIA has annouced the new gtx 980 for laptop. Any idea when will it be officially released? Do you think the alienware 18 will be capable of running these monsters in sli? I have enough money for a pair of gtx 980m but is it better to wait and invest in this new graphic card ? They said the performance will be on par with the desktop version so it would be awesome to have these graphic cards running in sli.Hello,The recent versions of the gtx 980 notebook edition aren't mxm standart size. Probably cards in mxm size will come in the future because msi probably wants to upgrade their gt80 with 2× gtx 980 notebook gpu'sBest regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryzago Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't 980m GTX sli kits available for m18x r2? I see actions on ebay and on some known sites for those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans123 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Thats right but NVIDIA realeased new gtx 980 cards which are not the same cards as the gtx 980m's. the gtx 980 cards are much bigger and have an other pcb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vorontut Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 wow wow wow guys slowley 980 has 165w tdp !!!! U will need some water cooling system or very very good heatsink cuz aw 18 max can support tdp up to 130-150w (in nvidia version). Btw u will need at least 300w psu for one card and if you want it in sli you will need 450w psu at least. I will try some ideas with water cooling system on my m18x and will create new thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans123 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) You aren't right. There exists two versions with different pcb's of the gtx 980. One has 180 watts tdp and the other one has a 200 watts tdp. I receaved information that even the 180 watts tdp card won't fit in the new alienware 18 although the pcb of the card looks like standart mxm pcb like gtx 980m. But yes the aw 18 heatsinks can't cool a card like this. Edited January 3, 2016 by hans123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soFluxed Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 its very possible to create a larger watt psu as mr.fox's post examples, in regard to the cooling, its probably possible to up the fan RPM or perhaps thicken or increase the density of fins on the current 150w coolers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans123 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 You can't use the dual psu mod on new alienware 18 notebooks because of power limit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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