Alienware M17 r3 upgrade options

bandit · 4 Dec 2015 at 12:40

My poor alienware is feeling its age

I feel like treating myself for xmas!
General Specs are below, but I'm wondering as an upgrade, whats the options to upgrade my M17

I'm going to get an SSD and more RAM as well, thinking £30 for 8GB, 128GBSSD and the rest of the graphics card?

Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 [Display adapter]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M [Display adapter]

Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.20 gigahertz Intel Core i7-2670QM
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Hyper-threaded (8 total) Board: Alienware M17xR3 A12
Serial Number: .1271FS1.
Bus Clock: 1333 megahertz
BIOS: Alienware A12 08/20/2012
Drives Memory Modules c,d
478.89 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
54.53 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TOSHIBA MK5061GSYN [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y19IT79TT, rev MH000D, Not SMART 4044 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'ChannelA-DIMM0' has 2048 MB (serial number 21546E6A)
Slot 'ChannelA-DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'ChannelB-DIMM0' has 2048 MB (serial number 21346E8C)
Slot 'ChannelB-DIMM1' is Empty

ExRayTed · 4 Dec 2015 at 13:28

What PSU do you have installed and more specifically, what amps/watts does it output? (should say on the side of the PSU)

What's your budget also?

Cyanide · 4 Dec 2015 at 13:34

ExRayTed said:
What PSU do you have installed and more specifically, what amps/watts does it output? (should say on the side of the PSU)

It's a laptop

ExRayTed · 4 Dec 2015 at 13:36

Laptop?!

Jesus, I'd assumed a desktop - stupidly it seems

OP - bin it and buy a desktop you mad-man!

DaleTheWhale · 4 Dec 2015 at 13:36

Probably best off in the laptop section, I wouldn't even know where to buy a GPU for a laptop from let alone recommend what would be best.

RAM and SSD upgrade is a damn good idea though!

ExRayTed · 4 Dec 2015 at 13:38

He can't upgrade the GPU without upgrading the mainboard.

I'll ask for the thread to be moved.

Cyanide · 4 Dec 2015 at 13:39

ThaReaperGuy said:
RAM and SSD upgrade is a damn good idea though!

This.

You might be able to drop something like a GTX580m in but it wouldn't be a worthwhile upgrade given the insane cost of mobile gpus.

bandit · 4 Dec 2015 at 14:16

680m and 780m are the options but they are around £300.

probably going to get the 780m, then 8GB ram and a decent SSD for games.

it'll probably be around £300-£400 all in.

need to figure out if its worth getting something smaller and more powerful. I am travelling a lot more now, so need something more mobile to play on.

maybe a 15", but damn, i want to play on a bigger screen