VIPERIII UPGRADE QUESTION

[chrmcc]

Hi All, I bought my VIPERIII in 2012 and want to keep it but it is past time to upgrade. Is anyone able to suggest possible upgrade options pelase?

Chassis & Display Viper III: 18.4" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Extreme i7-2960XM (2.70GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card 2 x 1.5GB nVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M - DirectX® 11 (SLI)

Thank you

Chris

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi All, I bought my VIPERIII in 2012 and want to keep it but it is past time to upgrade. Is anyone able to suggest possible upgrade options pelase?

Chassis & Display Viper III: 18.4" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Extreme i7-2960XM (2.70GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card 2 x 1.5GB nVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M - DirectX® 11 (SLI)

Thank you

Chris

What's your max budget?

You can't upgrade your existing chassis, you'd need to get a new one.

 

[chrmcc]

Sod it. So no RAM or CPU upgrade options? Why is that?

Thanks
chris

 

[SpyderTracks]

Sod it. So no RAM or CPU upgrade options? Why is that?

Thanks
chris

There's no point, the chasis is so old it won't do any good.

 

[chrmcc]

OK, thanks Spydertracks. I'll keep her as is then as I have others. I'm just fond of her and would like the bootup time to be a little quicker.

 

[SpyderTracks]

OK, thanks Spydertracks. I'll keep her as is then as I have others. I'm just fond of her and would like the bootup time to be a little quicker.

If you’ve got an HDD in there you could upgrade to an SSD, but that one is well past it’s prime, I would just bite the bullet and upgrade.

 

[chrmcc]

Thanks SPYDERTRACKS

 

[chrmcc]

Hi All,

I have an old PCSpecialist Viper III (Clevo P180HMx) with Core i7-2860QM CPU, 2 x GeForce GTX 560M GPU's and 2 x 4GB RAM.

I have just ordered a 3rd stick of memory to make the Working From Home experience a little better.

I was wondering what GPU upgrade options are available? I'm a light gamer so don't need the latest gaming laptop which is why I'd prefer to stick an older but better GPU setup in it.

Cheers
Chris

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi All,

I have an old PCSpecialist Viper III (Clevo P180HMx) with Core i7-2860QM CPU, 2 x GeForce GTX 560M GPU's and 2 x 4GB RAM.

I have just ordered a 3rd stick of memory to make the Working From Home experience a little better.

I was wondering what GPU upgrade options are available? I'm a light gamer so don't need the latest gaming laptop which is why I'd prefer to stick an older but better GPU setup in it.

Cheers
Chris

The only options you have are the HD6970m or HD6990m, but they're very expensive for how poor they are by todays standards, personally I would just put the money into a new laptop. That one is a LONG way past it's prime. The processor will bottleneck any gaming (as well as the gpu)

It's a 10 year old laptop! Even on a desktop it would have been replaced by now.

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[SpyderTracks]

The only options you have are the HD6970m or HD6990m, but they're very expensive for how poor they are by todays standards, personally I would just put the money into a new laptop. That one is a LONG way past it's prime. The processor will bottleneck any gaming (as well as the gpu)

It's a 10 year old laptop! Even on a desktop it would have been replaced by now.

CLEVO P180HM / SAGER NP8180 Configure

EUROCOM Fully configurable and upgradeable Desktop Replacement Notebooks, mobile workstations, mobile servers and Portable LCD PC systems. Our products are engineered for quality, performance, long-term stability and serviceability. Eurocom Corporation is based on the philosophy that the...

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Just furthermore, none of those GPU’s have driver support, the ones mentioned are also from 2011. Plus you’d need a compatible BIOS to recognise the updated GPU which is an additional cost and risk.