Bottlenecker3Billion

Exciting stuff that these chinese companies are doing man, Order myself a 4090 mxm for my 17 R1.

I need a custom heatsink for my project of putting a 4090M in an alienware 17 R1. The orginal gpu, a R9 M290X, has the die on a different part of the mxm board. Because of this, the heatsink wont fit the gpu. Does anyone know where I can find one?

My X-VSION card has a green PCB so it's probably X-VSION. Great build.

I will add this, though. 1. The bottleneck will be severe, yet not as severe as you expect. This cpu could likely handle up to a 2080 mobile at 1440p/4k assuming you use it as a nuc or do some sort of display modification. 2. There's a chance it'll work despite the lack of bios support. This happened when i put a RX 550 inside. Happy modding!

This is legit. Bought a 4090 from here. Beware the difficulties, though. 1. the die position on the card is different than the 880M/m290x, so the cooler wont fit. You'll either need to DIY one or cutom order one. 2. In my first attempt to get the car running in my Alienware 17, the motherboard died. Im guessing the gpu caused a voltage spike at boot that the old VRM's couldn't handle. Tried again with a new motherboard and got an 8 beep video error because the board couldnt recognize the card. I verified it wasn't a fake by pluging it into my pc with a riser, where it was recognized. You'll need to modify the bios. 3. The 4080/4090 willl request more power than the system is able to dish out. You'll need to limit it through afterburne or similar programs, and even then ther is risk of frying the board under load. If you saw all of this and the prices or the cards themselves and you still want to do it, go for it. Have fun.