Now This Is UPGRADING A Laptop

I finally upgrade the HUGE old Alienware Laptop, and it went surprisingly well.

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[benafedeyim]

I think we deserve to see 2080 upgraded version too

[lagoleer]

4930mx is running higher frequency and cooler than the original 4700/4710mq so that's a plus.
Last official GPU supported by Dell is the 980m which is much better than the 880m
Awesome video!

[nigerianprincesimp]

It's really sad how many of these new machines don't even have replaceable storage. I am really concerned about the future of modularity and upgradeability especially with the succes of the M1.

[watercannonscollaboration]

Forgetting the SLI bridge has the same spirit as forgetting the IO shield in a super complicated PC build

[lflyr]

Dawid Does Tech Stuff : the GTX 880M 8 GB is impressive considering that it was launched in 2014 based on the Kepler GTX 700 series architecture from 2013 and it had a rich amount of 8 GB VRAM which in uncharacteristic for Nvidia to give to us consumers....though that 122 Watt TDP is worrying since it's a discrete GPU but a mobile GPU nontheless.

[yasu_red]

One thing I've always wondered is why Nvidia's mobile cards of this period (and Maxwell) had so much more VRAM than their desktop equivalents.

[Craider]

765m to 880m ... holy crap that would have been an expensive upgrade back in the day 😀

[frieza]

Can't wait for him to do this on a framework laptop 16

[anthonyzheng]

I've had this laptop from 2014 to 2021 when it finally died. Had it on i7 4700MQ, GTX 760 SLI, and 24GB RAM. Never upgraded it, never needed to

[devilmikey]

The SLI scaling on GTA V didn't seem to be working properly with the new GPUs. If you look at the usage it seems perfectly split and only using around 50% of each card where as with the old GPUs it was using 60-95% usage on each GPU. SLI was non-existent on BFV and CP77 on both but I assume that's just because SLI was dead by the time those games came out.

[dionelr]

I love Dawid’s baseless optimism. Really giving it his all out here on the computer webs.

[orenraveh]

I Love The Good Old Laptops They Are So Easy To Upgrade

[mominurrahman]

Meanwhile Me gaming with a laptop that is 11 years old and it has i3 2310m and 6gb ram with 500gb hdd and intel hd 3000💀

[kztech]

The Dell Precision M4800 and M6800 are also infamous for being the last laptops to have all these upgradability, and they are also laptop DIY modders dream laptops, and now you can get them much cheaper than ever

[stephendommett]

Forgetting the SLI bridge cable made me laugh much more that it should of haha. Love these videos

[ZaneofAustin]

i always love to see old content brought back to life, even if it's "not worth" the money
it's a shame there are so few laptops that can change parts out like this, make a monster david
a monster

[virtual-adam]

Oh the pain of forgetting the SLI bridge, I felt that!

[Code_String]

I think the best value GPU in those are probably Pascal MXMs. There's a bit of vBios flash involved, but it does work rather well. Alternatively, there's also some AMD MXMs out there that apparently worked, but it's rather uncommon unless it's the 7970m/8970m/m290x. It does give the benefit of consuming less power while havinf much more GPU power to one's disposition. The other unused MXM slot can even be repurpose for an NVME slot after purchasing the appropriate adapter.

It's a fun little unit to dig into! Nice to see you give a hand into this :).

[grendelsan]

The finger in the opening lives rent free in my mind constantly. Is it ever going to touch that mirrored surface???

[uglybob]

Had an old Dell XPS laptop which was very similar to this and I was upgrading it and using it until only a few months ago. Sucked the power through it though....was sorry to see it go. Thanks for the video, Dawid 🙂