great news! clevo's 980m works well natively in aw17/18, without bios/vbios modding (a.k.a. plug and play, literally). previously aw18 was reported to be unable to run slevo's 980m.sli. it turned out that it can. the catch is to run them in uefi mode (w8.1 was confirmed to work. let's see if w7 uefi will work as well)

eBay?

No news about this yet.

lol yeah they should because these are basics for systems today. the whole thing is actually simple if you starts fresh.

disk type conversion is easy. all you need is to boot a single-disk machine with windows install disc/usb, press shift+f10 to call out the command prompt, type diskpart > sel disk 0 > clean > convert gpt, then proceed as usual. since w8.1 defaults to uefi mode install it will take care of the rest.

i choose to pull all other disks out except for os drive because i know i am careless.

a good buy yes 240w is sufficient for your configurations with 770m and 16gb ram.

really? i'm still not sure about this? where did you find the information?

right. that's crazy. it's like 3x gtx.980 for a desktop, or a complete stock aw18 (imported set) with 4910mq and 880m sli.

normally there is no future for old parts if they're still with you. you will never looked at it again when you have a better card.

backup makes more sense.

Note: for those who wish to upgrade their gpu in m17x r4, don't go for 880m.

From my extensive tests after updated everything to the latest under w8.1 in a m17xr4, it's true that all latest drivers are crippling performance of the card, resulting in very terrible performance for gaming.

The only place it can go now is aw17/18 with the right vbios.

What a disappointment :/ nvidia has done something to make their own product to run at lower than advertised speed ://

780m is fine hehe

a nice find

nice. i also want another one :/

yes, it's enough, even if i have everything fully loaded. i just want it to have more juice hehe..

hehe don't treat it as poisons lol! m17x r4 can still be good if you put in good stuff. in your case, a 3840qm cpu, and 780m (for now). that's if you're still keen on keeping it.

by the way 880m didn't work quite well than 780m in the laptop. the recent drivers somehow make it run very nicely in benchmarks and have good scores, but not when you play games. it has serious throttling in-game when under loads.

980m is the most promising card for now, but whether it will work fine or not i am not sure. sometimes people tend to say things work, without telling you caveats / details.

in that case, maybe you just report to dell malaysia. they should be able to send a copy to you.

you are the first person who owns a aw13. maybe later you can tell us about AGA

nice to hear that

wow still haven't refresh it? you can just create a system image and do your things. if something is wrong just restore the whole thing.

if you have windows pro edition, just use the virtual desktop feature to try out first.

that's a rather sad news. i was reading another news about instability of clevo's 980m in m17x r4 just now. read a rumor that 980m in new aw17 is actually a 4gb vram version also.

still have alternatives, just that not aw anymore.

uh? why flaming you? just grab what you want and be happy with it. tbh it's more fun to play with desktops lol!

we have a different view on this. the main concern to me is the continuous issues in other brands regarding parts warranty support. i have had some cases with local distributors that gave me nonsense that i was not told up front, even if i tried to communicate with them proactively before those outcomes (only to hit their silence walls on many occasions).

dell support saved me a lot of time and frustrations when there were issues in the past. instead of asking me to do carry-in and after that wait for months with unknown status, they come and deal with issues with good and right parts.

without the above, i might agree that aw is overpriced.

competition is good for consumers in general. tbh recent news from other brands are welcomed, even though some brands decided to leave us. razer, gigabyte, and especially aftershock give us more options rather than previous monopolies (the price of aftershock titan v2.1 with 980m sli is really competitive i must say. there is a w-15 now. maybe later we will have a w-17 hehe).

options wise we do have a lot. however the key point is still the actual commitments of local supports. imo everything should have both products and warranty services delivered properly. you do this well, you get a lot of costumers.

we all know it's not easy, because after all these years many well-known brands still continue to fail deliver their offers properly. mostly, except dell.

note: a surprise. m17x r4 non-3d has all it takes at everything stock to run 980m some guys at techinferno.forum has upgraded it. the catch is to enable optimus.

now the issue is the 3d version.

wow thanks a bunch for the heads up.

yes for m17x r4 it's just .inf mod. for aw17, that cannot even be called as 'working', like what those card sellers are advertising.