Alienware 18 r3 nvidia gtx 1070m

About three years ago I got myself alienware 18 r3. I bought it for a low price with nvidia quadro k4100m and now I thought it's high time I change it for a new graphics card and gtx 1070m looks just perfect to me. The only issue I have is compatibility and I have no idea if it's going to work on this one and if not what can I do for it to work? I'm just not sure what is my mxm in this one. The service tag is 8GB0VY1.

 

is there enough space for one of these?





@woodzstack

 

Yeah, there definitely is enough for those. At least the 1070 one which is what I'm looking for.

 

If you could post some pictures with heatsink removed we may see if you can cram it inside your chassis.
If your gpu is mxm type a, its a bummer for you

 

It's an alienware 18

Its built for mxm3.0b.

 

most 1070 are over size, you may modify your model

 

There are 2 that are over size and 2 that are standard MXM 3.0b dimensions.

Clevo and MSI are oversize while Zotac and Eurocom are standard dimensions.

 

are you planning use it for sli?

 

Okay, sorry for long inactivity and also thank you all for answering me. I'll try to get photos today or tomorrow. And I am not planning to use it for SLI as for now

 

AW18 is capable of holding the Eurocom 1070 just fine, but you'll likely have a hard time with the heatsink, one mosfet is not covered, so if you want it covered you would need a low profile heatsink to stick to it.

Other than that, lots of grinding on the heatsink. I crushed something on a Eurocom 1070 with the AW18 heatsink when I tried to do mine, and I've been fighting it for 4 months...so it just ended up inside an AW17 I got for almost nothing because it had a dead LCD.

 

I forgot to mentioned that I would recommended you using the R9 heatsink... buts it is already too late.