where can i source 6990m l 580m? entheusiast laptop part sourcing thread

garyfl · 4 Oct 2011 at 18:18

I've done my homework and some haggling, found forums selling them for my particular system and best price is 795$ or I could trade in my 6970 and they would take off 350$

Just dosent seem worth it, upgradeyourlaptop on the bay is rude and abrupt, and there's also a guy on forum of notebook review I'm in corrospondence to squeeze a good deal with,

As it stands the performance gain is not worth the cost of basically, a desktop 6950.

Wondered if anyone knew where to source one, what about dell directly ? I can't ask yet as my service tag is not yet in tech help part of their care It's only just shipped.

Can this thread be about sourcing entheusiast parts, inc screens, hdds processors.

garyfl · 4 Oct 2011 at 18:36

Mxm upgrades don't do 6990 atm

Imwanting the 2820qm to replace my 2720qm when it comes, a guy on the forum quoted 320$ which isn't bad considering id get that on the bay for mine, the bay only seems to have engineering samples

Nice info it does all make sense, there's not really much saturation but there is a small market and people are going crazy for Mxm gfx cards people are able to ask crazy prices

garyfl · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:20

It's not that I'm not happy cos I am

plus its been shipped

garyfl · 4 Oct 2011 at 21:10

I'll ask when my jtag comes up. Just contacted eurocom and best price they gave me for the 6990 is 285 pounds

450 for the 580m

garyfl · 4 Oct 2011 at 23:31

I know man I'm just one of those people who gets a buzz from upgrading, just scared the 6970m won't handle bf3 so well

garyfl · 5 Oct 2011 at 17:48

How so 6990 has more shaders dosent it? I guess I could Overclockers it

garyfl · 5 Oct 2011 at 18:15

Oh yea the 580 and 6990 are very similar but the 6970 only has 960 shaders compared to 6990's 1120

garyfl · 3 Nov 2011 at 22:16

its a funny story really, my outlet model was a wrong laptop and was full of scratches and had internal problems, for my trouble they sent out a new retail replacement with... a 6990

i havent actually had chance to try out its supposed greatness due to driver support, and i got it yesterday!

going to keep trying to get the 11.10 to work properly. im thinking of selling it and sourcing a 580m

garyfl · 3 Nov 2011 at 22:47

yeah i figured it had something to do with dell signature in the bios or something and only working with something dell certifies. is there a way to hack the bios ?