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Upgrade MR9700 to a MR9800????? WOW

post #1 of 14
9/4/04 at 3:34am
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Is there any way to upgrade Ferrari 3200's GPU???!!! to a MR9800.... snorre? Anyone with the ferrari?

Dell XPS and inspiron9100 users are able to do it... from mr9700 to MR9800...they bought a 9800 kit from Dell...

that'd be so awesome if we could do it too! They even have instructions for replacing GPU here:
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http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...eo.htm#1006368



If you are technically inclined, installation is fairly easy and sounds like it will save you $400.

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Did anyone else notice the substantial price drop for the M18 from just a day ago?
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post #2 of 14
9/4/04 at 8:45am
Unless the manufacturer comes out with a GPU board with the 9800, you won't be able to upgrade since all the parts are proprietary.
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post #3 of 14
9/4/04 at 2:56pm
The Dell is extremely thick and well cooled to be able to acomodate the MR9800, the power supply also needs to meet sertain reqirements to be way more powerfull.

In a F3200 I think you can forget the MR9800. But who know. Maybe after a die-shrink?
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post #4 of 14
9/4/04 at 3:30pm
the guy that started this thread is a newb
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post #5 of 14
9/4/04 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by LacheyAllTheWay
the guy that started this thread is a newb
thanks for stating the obvious
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post #6 of 14
9/4/04 at 4:56pm
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the guy that started this thread is a newb
And that disqualifies him from asking a question?
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post #7 of 14
9/4/04 at 4:58pm
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And that disqualifies him from asking a question?
Did I say that?!!! no you newb!! double newb time!!!

you guys should go listen to some nick lachey music... damn newbs
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post #8 of 14
9/4/04 at 8:23pm
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Originally Posted by hyogen
Is there any way to upgrade Ferrari 3200's GPU???!!! to a MR9800.... snorre? Anyone with the ferrari?
No, and besides the MR9800 isn't really suited in any thin & light notebooks because it requires much more power than the MR9700 and also produces alot more heat.
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post #9 of 14
9/5/04 at 12:15pm
I'd stay with the 9700 as the performance gain with the 9800 is only about 10% over the 9700 where as the performance gain of the 9700 over the 9600 is about 30%.

Just my 2 cents

Daily
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post #10 of 14
9/5/04 at 12:34pm
well the people that do make the upgrade in their dell...they keep the 9700 it says...would those 9700's work in other laptops? like....the W1N, which only has the 9600? if not, woulda been a nice thought at least.
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post #11 of 14
9/5/04 at 1:04pm
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Originally Posted by dlukesdoom
I'd stay with the 9700 as the performance gain with the 9800 is only about 10% over the 9700 where as the performance gain of the 9700 over the 9600 is about 30%.

Just my 2 cents

Daily
Drugs are bad, mkay? The MR9800 has about a 75% performance gain over the MR9700. In some cases, it's more like 90%.

Out of curiosity, did you make up that 10% number randomly, or was it just misinformation that was passed on to you?
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post #12 of 14
9/5/04 at 2:21pm
75-90% seems excessive too, I'd say about 50% According to the only review I ever read. Was Tom's Hardware I think.
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post #13 of 14
9/5/04 at 6:30pm
there's about a 60-70% performance increase in the 9800 with its 8 pixel pipelines.
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post #14 of 14
9/5/04 at 8:32pm
It depends on what you're doing to compare them. When I do comparisons like that, it's generally with a benchmarking software. At stock clocks, a 9100 with a 9700 gets around 3500 in 3DMark03, that same 9100 gets around 6500 at stock clocks with a 9800. That, in itself, is an 85% increase.
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