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Take two - constructing the fastest Acer notebook in the world. HD5870M.

Meaker

Meaker

Meaker

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I don't know if you guys have followed my 7738G rebuild which I christened project ownage, currently running:

1920x1080 LED LCD display
Q9200 @ 2.93ghz 1.1v
HD6770M @ 850/1100 1.1v
8GB Kinston Hyper-X 1066mhz 6-6-5-15
64GB Crucial M4 SSD + 500GB WD scorpio black 7200rpm HDD
Bluray drive

Well I tried a variety of different notebook cards:

HD5730M
GTX460M
HD5850M
HD6770M

Now the 6770M is currently running is identical to a desktop HD6670, which is good, and at the upgraded 1920x1080 it certainly holds its ground against the 5850M with GDDR3 used in the fastest Acers. However I did call it project ownage, and while having higher minimum FPS is nice, its hardly ownage.

Now the best results I got were from the 5850M, which unfortunately died on me, and I think was just a dodgy card (I have never watched temperatures on any other hardware so closely lol). The 460M needs system bios support to enter full clocks (same goes for the 560M) and the HD5730 is slower than what I have now.

So as you might of guessed from the title I have an HD5870M 1GB GDDR5 on the way, which is going to go into my modified motherboard:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/Meaks/Inside.jpg

and look a bit like this:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/Meaks/DSCF0764.jpg

I've ordering some low profile copper heatsinks for the mem and VRMs.

I'll post my results here, if I pull this off it will be a lot faster than any acer notebook out there.

Oh and before anyone asks the 5870M cost me a bit more than a desktop 5770 (which it is based off), but not a stupid amount more
 
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Haha, don't blame you.
Last time I considered going the upgrade MXM route (which we both know can be a risky path at times), the card, with no guarantee it'd work was about £350!

Good luck with the project. That'll be a fairly nice if it works without getting too hot :)
 
Well I can always undervolt it and lower my CPU clocks and voltage a bit.

At 2.66ghz at 1.05v my CPU stays cooler than the dual cores do at stock :)

I'm going to be adding in a bit of extra copper to help the cooling system a bit.
 
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