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I love being able to plug all of my gaming accessories and printer into the graphic amps usb 3.0 ports and only having to connect 1 easy cable to my laptop and have desktop performance playing my games and what not.. then when I need to go I unplug the 1 cable and pack my laptop up in its case and game on the go. the internal gtx970m is still plenty good enough for portable gaming. If I'm going to be away from home for ahwhile I bring the graphics amp too, lol.. its not that big and fits into my duffle bag with all my cloths and stuff... so this is definitely worth what it does. I still would much rather have sockets on my 17r3's motherboard though for the cpu and gpu. even though the graphics amp is awesome, it would still be nice to upgrade my gtx970m to a gtx1080 and in a few years even upgrade the cpu.. but for what it is and whats available I do love my graphics amp... I can always upgrade the video card in it, so it will keep my laptop a powerful gaming pc way longer than if alienware didn't offer it.. All in all, I highly recommend it. it does only get pci express x8 though, which is confusing.. the NVidia control panel says its connected to pci express 3.0 x8 but the alienware website says its a X4 connection, so i'm a little confused about that.. so I wouldn't be sticking a titan in it.. lol. I tried my gtx1080 out of my tower computer with the x79 chipset and i7-4930 and the gtx1060 I bought just for the graphics amp gives just as much performance as the 1080 does and i'm thinking its becasuse of the 4 or 8 lanes of pci express when the card needs pci express x 16 for its full potential.. so in my opinion a gtx1060 is the biggest card I would put inside the graphics amplifier....Read full review
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It works fine except for the fact that the power cable might pop out also the cable that connects to my laptop does it fit very well in pops out in the slightest movement makes my laptop shut down because the power cable might come out it fits my GTX Titan X Pascal which is good but it needs a little work build quality wise.
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I purchased the 9R7XN because MY version of the Alienware 17 R3 has the 4k screen. But the internal 3g Nvidia video card (while awesome at 1080p games) struggled at 3840 × 2160. The 9R7XN allows the use of an external video card while using either an external monitor...or in my case....feeds the image back to my laptop monitor. It does this seamlessly. I thought that feeding back into my laptop's 4k screen it would be choked and not as fast as feeding it to the external. But, it was just as fast. I run 2160 Fallout absolutely maxed out and it absolutely maxes the fps. So here is where you ask "what did you put in the AGA (Alienware Graphics Amplifier). And this is where we come to the good...or the bad. The AGA has a limit of 10 inches on graphic card length. My card of choice was the Nvidia 1080 Founder's Edition (all metal, no plastic). This is a beast card but it is 10 inches. Some of the cards I wanted exceeded 10 inches so the AGA's limit scratched them from my list. I ran a XFX ATi 290 and a Nvidia 1070, 1060, 1050 Ti...and they all ran fine. (But those cards ran in 1080, they would not run 2160 as smooth as what I was aiming for) The Nvidia1080 though produced too much heat for the AGA to negotiate. Ran 2160 res fine, but system shutdown in minutes due to overheat in the AGA box. I eventually had to remove the box-like cover and leave it "open air". Since doing this took away the only fan it DID have as it was attached to the front of the AGA box, I bought a small nine inch desk fan and blew it across the AGA. This has allowed me to play unlimited time in 4k. Ok...now that I am running just the guts of the AGA out of it's box, the video card length is no longer an issue. That being said, the AGA and the concept of running an external video card on the Alienware 17 r3 and such laptops is a Solid Win imo. The cable between the laptop and AGA does not appear to be the bottleneck I thought it was going to be. In fact, this concept should be used by all laptops. It works and it works well. On Steam I own about 100 games, and 80 of them don't go higher than 1080p. The Alienware 17 R3 allows me to play those games home or abroad by throwing the laptop in a bag. But on those games I own that are 2160p, I now easily play them at home, and now how a new choice for on-the-road. I can choose to carry the AGA and retain my 2160p status while on-the-road or settle with 1080p. I wanted to mention it like that because usually the first thing people ask me is "why not just have bought a desktop in the first place with the big video card in it?". For those people who must have mobility sometimes but don't want or can't afford two system, the AGA probably definitely the solution. Just know in advance the length limitation and the fact that the AGA case is like an Easy Bake Oven for a video card.Read full review
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Great way to upgrade your laptop. It could be improved with a littler more height to for larger cards and to get ride of the low profile screws which strip easily and are hard to replace. The cable is also far too fragile at the laptop side for frequent docking, they should have used a docking base like their latitude line.
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This product is awesome. It gave me a huge performance boost and will keep my laptop relevant for many more years.
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