June 25th, 2008

Dell XPS M1730 - Upgradeable to 8800M GTX SLIDell is now offering the Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX upgrade kit for existing XPS M1730 customers who have configured their notebooks with lower-performance GPUs, such as the 8700M GT.

The video card can be purchased from Dell.com, either as a stand-alone part, or with an installation service for users that don’t want to install the GPU themselves. For customers that want to do it temselves, Dell has provided a service manual, as well as a how-to video.

The stand-alone 8800M GTX SLI (dual) kit, with 1GB of GDDR3 memory, is priced at $1,099.99. The same product with the installation service costs $1,218.99.

Accroding to a post at Direct2Dell blog, the Dual GeForce 8800M GTX boosts performance over the older Dual 8700M GT cards by up to 49%.

How to Install an 8800M GTX in Dell XPS M1730 Laptop - Video:

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