You can do this in two ways. If you wish to upgrade the graphics card by contacting our Dell spares and parts, you could ask for a service technician to come and replace it for you. This will come at a nominal price.
However if you wish to purchase the graphics card locally and install it yourself, please be informed the battery, bottom cover, primary hard drive, secondary hard drive, memory, graphics card fan and graphics card thermal assembly have to be removed to replace the graphics card. Have a look at the system manual and you will be able to decide for yourself.
DELL-Satya P
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September 20th, 2012 00:00
Hi Ryan,
You can do this in two ways. If you wish to upgrade the graphics card by contacting our Dell spares and parts, you could ask for a service technician to come and replace it for you. This will come at a nominal price.
However if you wish to purchase the graphics card locally and install it yourself, please be informed the battery, bottom cover, primary hard drive, secondary hard drive, memory, graphics card fan and graphics card thermal assembly have to be removed to replace the graphics card. Have a look at the system manual and you will be able to decide for yourself.
Alienware m17x R4 system manual: http://dell.to/QnFlls
Replacing graphics card video:
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Please reply if you have any further questions.