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Upgrade Area-51 m7700a

post #1 of 7
8/14/08 at 10:53am
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I emailed Alienware to see which of all the parts in my m7700a could be upgraded and what the max each one of those could be upgraded to and here is the response I received from them:

Unfortunately, I must inform you that the Aurora m7700 has been discontinued and we will not be able to provide upgrade parts for any of these systems and the stock we carry has been reserved for replacement parts for systems under warranty.

I had already figured that it had been discontinued since it is a few years old but what I didnt expect was for them to not answer my question as to which parts can be upgraded and to what max part each could be upgraded. Instead they just blew me off. Is there anyone out there with this knowledge who would like to share it with the rest of us. I just need a list of the parts that can be upgraded in this laptop and to max that they can each be upgraded to so I can do it my dang self...

Thanks in advance...
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post #2 of 7
8/14/08 at 12:15pm
almost everything that's not a part of the mobo can be upgraded.

but most likely you'd want to upgrade
1. GPU
2. CPU
3. RAM

i had the aurora m7700 but yours is on intel. which processor & GPU you got in there now?
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post #3 of 7
8/14/08 at 12:46pm
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Here are the stats on my configuration directly from Alienware when I purchased the unit:

<level4 Description="Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+">
<level4 Description="Current Clock Speed: 2400MHz">
<level4 Description="Socket Designation: Socket 939">

<level4 Description="Mem_Bandwidth: PC3200 (200 MHz)">

<level2 Description="Motherboard Information"><level3 Description="Manufacturer: CLEVO"><level3 Description="Version: VT8341B">

<level3 Description="Caption: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX" Description="Adapter RAM: 256MB">
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post #4 of 7
8/14/08 at 1:32pm
ah, so you have the aurora no a51 that system is about as good as it's going to get. technically speaking you can upgrad the GPU to the 7900 GTX. its MXM type III but good luck finding one of those. Even worse is finding any socket 939 AMD CPU's...

but honestly thats just about as much power as you're going to get out of that guy. you can always upgrade more memory (does not say how much you have). up to 3GB will do you good, you need DDR 400Mhz memory for that system.
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post #5 of 7
8/14/08 at 5:05pm
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Oh, well what can you do. Thanks for all the help and answers.
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post #6 of 7
8/14/08 at 8:47pm
I'd contact customer service, not tech support, and ask them what the fastest processors and vid cards that were certified for the platform by Alienware. They won't be able to sell you the parts, but they should be able to tell you what the last configuration they sold had.

I think they sold it with the FX-60 AMD processor, not positive, and the 7950 will work in that platform according to a couple guys a while back that used it.

Not sure it would be worth the money to upgrade though...
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post #7 of 7
8/15/08 at 7:49pm
Hammerhead has it right with the price context. A working mobile GPU card for that would be very costly indeed. Upgrading to a newer platform would be better suited for most anyone.
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