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Best possible upgrades for w701?
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:45 pm
by jedisurfer1
I'm missing the old school 1920x1200 and have a x701 to play with. I bought 1200p screen, a 920xm, it already has RAID and the fx 2800 (if anyone knows a sure fire way to get a better gpu without risking the laptop I'm interested), I have 32gb of ram and a few spare SSD.
Is there anything else I can upgrade or you can recommend?
Re: Best possible upgrades for w701?
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:27 pm
by RMSMajestic
That's pretty much it..... Maybe you can modify the cooling system a bit so that you can overclock the i7 920xm to something like 3.6Ghz (without throttling).
If ever there will be a way of upgrading the graphics card, then one should definitely go for it..... But now W701 and its parts are still too expensive for experiments of any kind. :/
Re: Best possible upgrades for w701?
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:30 pm
by jdrou
In theory you should be able to use a 3800M. According to the wiki that was an option on the W701. Those seem to run $90-$220 on ebay right now.
If you're more ambitious you could possibly buy a Precision M6500 or EliteBook 8740w with a 3800M and swap it out and resell the laptop.
EDIT: actually it sounds like Lenovo does some tricks with the video BIOS that may prevent 3rd party cards from working.
http://ridingtheflow.blogspot.com/2011/ ... nd-of.html