Amd 7970m in MSI barebone?

[Sneaki]

I was wondering if the new 7970m would be compatible with the 16F3/1762 barebone laptops? I have no experience with this sort of thing at all so maybe this is impossible , but if it worked it could be much cheaper than alienware/sager (buying the card separately I guess). I was told in another thread that the new card is 100w and based on the mxm 3.0c standard, if that helps .

Thanks.

[b0b1man]

I made a similar thread in the clevo forum section. I guess our minds think about the same thing: MSI barebone + 7970m possible?

[Meaker]

My only worry is optimus in the the newer models.

[swiftden]

Hope someone here experiments with it. I wanna know if i can extend my barebone's life to 3 more years. 7970 is a monster!!

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[pau1ow]

I think it will be tried out soon :P

[swiftden]

I think it will be tried out soon :P

I hope so. No one here seems interested.. but i heard our MSI is capable of handling this card with no worries.

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[b0b1man]

I wanna get the latest 17.3" MSI barebone with AMD 7970m and profit with its SteelSeries backlit awesome keyboard and its superior Dynaudio speakers + its enhanced audio output for headphones. It could be cheaper than the Clevos and have all the goodies that I listed above. This is the best machine I can imagine right now. It just needs some extra power with the AMD 7970m.

[pau1ow]

That's a very good idea b0b1man, this is what I would be contemplating but with an OEM MSI Will let you know about the 7970m in the 16F2 first though.

[Sneaki]

Good to see I'm not the only one curious about this then! Hopefully if someone tries it they'll let us know how it goes .

[Hutsady@XoticPC]

You'll have to wait until they card are released before any testing can be done. Current ETA is end of May. Gonna be tough though on MSI as the GPU is not user upgradable. When you get a barebones MSI chassis one of the things it does come with is the graphics card.