M18x R1 Upgrade Choices

[Braintwistah]

Recently got a M18x R1 off eBay for my daughter but I plan on upgrading to the “max”. From what I understand best cpu is the 2960XM and the best ram would be 32GB(1600mhz) but for the gpu I can’t seem to get an idea on what the best gpu I can put in this is there’s a lot of info here but I can’t exactly find a clear answer as what to get my choices I’m thinking of is a 980m or a rtx 3000 more so leaning the rtx route. Any help is appreciated thank you.

[ssj92]

880M SLI is the fastest "stock bios" setup in PEG.

 

If you don't mind mismatching, you can get around the limit by using something like a M2000M on primary slot then use rtx 3000 in secondary slot. 

 

using windows 10 registry mod you can assign 3d programs to use rtx 3000. 

 

M2000M can be found quite cheap sometimes so it's a viable option.

 

I am working on a bios mod to fix 980M SLI support but the issue is, if you want to use anything newer, you need to use "SG" (Optimus mode). unless you use my dual gpu workaround.

 

In SG mode, the m18xr1 is limited to dx11 only for some reason, and I haven't solved this yet

[melissa2006]

2 hours ago, ssj92 said:

880M SLI is the fastest "stock bios" setup in PEG.

 

If you don't mind mismatching, you can get around the limit by using something like a M2000M on primary slot then use rtx 3000 in secondary slot. 

 

using windows 10 registry mod you can assign 3d programs to use rtx 3000. 

 

M2000M can be found quite cheap sometimes so it's a viable option.

 

I am working on a bios mod to fix 980M SLI support but the issue is, if you want to use anything newer, you need to use "SG" (Optimus mode). unless you use my dual gpu workaround.

 

In SG mode, the m18xr1 is limited to dx11 only for some reason, and I haven't solved this yet

Does m2000m + rtx3000 work in win11? Were you ever able to fix the 55w tdp issue? Thank you again!

[ssj92]

9 hours ago, melissa2006 said:

Does m2000m + rtx3000 work in win11? Were you ever able to fix the 55w tdp issue? Thank you again!

Yes win11 works. 

 

I haven't tested it yet, put covering pwr pin might be the fix. Hoping to test it in a week or two