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Upgrading alienware R3
Hi,
I've bought my R3 M17x Alienware laptop with i7 processor, 8 gb of ram and a GTX 560m graphic card. That GPU is outdated but still ok. Processor and ram are not.
Is there a possibility to change just the graphic card? If it is possible, I may pull 3 years on this configuration without any problems.
Thank you!
Anonymous
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May 31st, 2016 12:00
Hi,
Here is a list of the graphic cards that Dell has certified to work on the Alienware M17X R3:
Regarding RAM upgrades, the most you can install on this unit would be 32GB.
Regarding the CPU, here is what has been certified.
Intel® Core™ i7:
2720QM - 2.2 GHz
2820QM - 2.3 GHz
2630QM - 2.0 GHz
Rade986
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May 31st, 2016 13:00
Thank you for your response. I've read on some websites that with different heat sink, I can use up to GTX 780m which is a 100W card. Is that true?
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June 1st, 2016 08:00
Well, we’ve not seen this computer running with that video card. You can try posing on the Notebook Review and Alienware Arena where some of our users may have tried those upgrades.