Can I Upgrade GPU in Asus Rog GL752VW DH71?

[Woxter]

Hi, I've got an Asus GL752VW DH71 and it features an MXM GTX960M, the thing is that games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3, AC Unity struggle a little bit on Ultra settings so they work fine at medium-high settings (not even high) I can cope with that because it sounds reasonable but..if it can't handle fully a 1080p 2014-2015 game....then in 2 years time it won't handle barely any new game so I just wanted to know if I could Upgrade the GTX960M to a GTX980M or equivalent in 2 years because It's a quite badass laptop I've got a beast CPU Power ( i7 6700HQ) and with the M.2 950 Pro + 32 GB DDR4 RAM I feel I've done an investment for at least 5 years but that GPU...will get outdated very soon. I asked some friends who know about this but some answered yes others said no...so I'm confused and I would like some help, thanks!!

 

[ThatVietGuy]

You can technically take a card from an higher model than the one you have now, but the card will probably cost $600+.

For example - http/www.ebay.com/itm/ALIENWARE-17-R5-VGA-Upgrade-Kit-NEW-NVIDIA-GTX-980M-8GB-DDR5-MXM-3-0b-/131600575008?hash=item1ea4016a20:g:BUAAAOSwHjNV8d-N

I don't think investing $800 is worthwhile.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hi, I've got an Asus GL752VW DH71 and it features an MXM GTX960M, the thing is that games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3, AC Unity struggle a little bit on Ultra settings so they work fine at medium-high settings (not even high) I can cope with that because it sounds reasonable but..if it can't handle fully a 1080p 2014-2015 game....then in 2 years time it won't handle barely any new game so I just wanted to know if I could Upgrade the GTX960M to a GTX980M or equivalent in 2 years because It's a quite badass laptop I've got a beast CPU Power ( i7 6700HQ) and with the M.2 950 Pro + 32 GB DDR4 RAM I feel I've done an investment for at least 5 years but that GPU...will get outdated very soon. I asked some friends who know about this but some answered yes others said no...so I'm confused and I would like some help, thanks!!

There is no way around this: one may game on a laptop but don't ever expect AAA gaming in high/ultra and 1080 or up.
These things are desktop territory.
My advice: take that money and put it towards a desktop.
Or, if you must game on a laptop, wait a bit as i think razor and alienware are putting out solutions for attaching external desktop GPUs to their laptops.

 

[Woxter]

Hi, I've got an Asus GL752VW DH71 and it features an MXM GTX960M, the thing is that games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3, AC Unity struggle a little bit on Ultra settings so they work fine at medium-high settings (not even high) I can cope with that because it sounds reasonable but..if it can't handle fully a 1080p 2014-2015 game....then in 2 years time it won't handle barely any new game so I just wanted to know if I could Upgrade the GTX960M to a GTX980M or equivalent in 2 years because It's a quite badass laptop I've got a beast CPU Power ( i7 6700HQ) and with the M.2 950 Pro + 32 GB DDR4 RAM I feel I've done an investment for at least 5 years but that GPU...will get outdated very soon. I asked some friends who know about this but some answered yes others said no...so I'm confused and I would like some help, thanks!!

There is no way around this: one may game on a laptop but don't ever expect AAA gaming in high/ultra and 1080 or up.
These things are desktop territory.
My advice: take that money and put it towards a desktop.
Or, if you must game on a laptop, wait a bit as i think razor and alienware are putting out solutions for attaching external desktop GPUs to their laptops.

I sure know that, I've got a desktop 4790K, GTX970, 32GB RAM, 2 SSD...etc soon it will be replaced when 4K becomes more mainstream (UltraHD Bluray Drvies and more brands manufacturing players) then I'll get a 4K screen and a 980 Ti or a 1070 or whatever, but the thing is that I can't carry my desktop around, I'm only home just 4-5 hours before going to bed, so I do gaming and MOSTLY video editing outside home that's why I need a GTX980M in a coulple of months.
I don't expect getting a solid 1080p ultra AAA 60 fps, I surely know that a 960M will not do it but I'm fine with 60 fps in medium settings and 30 in medium-high or just high but if it can't handle a game properly now, talking in 2 years time...games such as new Assassins Creed and similar titles released in 2018 or soemthing around there..those won't be even 30 fps...or very low settings... I just don't see myself editing a 4/6 K video or even an UltraHD Bluray encoding with a GTX960M or doing heavy stuff in Premiere Pro and After effects. That's why I asked, if I could upgrade to a GTX980M or the equivalent in 2 years time (GTX 1080M?? ) As for now everything is doing perfectly at 1080p except gaming

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hi, I've got an Asus GL752VW DH71 and it features an MXM GTX960M, the thing is that games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3, AC Unity struggle a little bit on Ultra settings so they work fine at medium-high settings (not even high) I can cope with that because it sounds reasonable but..if it can't handle fully a 1080p 2014-2015 game....then in 2 years time it won't handle barely any new game so I just wanted to know if I could Upgrade the GTX960M to a GTX980M or equivalent in 2 years because It's a quite badass laptop I've got a beast CPU Power ( i7 6700HQ) and with the M.2 950 Pro + 32 GB DDR4 RAM I feel I've done an investment for at least 5 years but that GPU...will get outdated very soon. I asked some friends who know about this but some answered yes others said no...so I'm confused and I would like some help, thanks!!

There is no way around this: one may game on a laptop but don't ever expect AAA gaming in high/ultra and 1080 or up.
These things are desktop territory.
My advice: take that money and put it towards a desktop.
Or, if you must game on a laptop, wait a bit as i think razor and alienware are putting out solutions for attaching external desktop GPUs to their laptops.

I sure know that, I've got a desktop 4790K, GTX970, 32GB RAM, 2 SSD...etc soon it will be replaced when 4K becomes more mainstream (UltraHD Bluray Drvies and more brands manufacturing players) then I'll get a 4K screen and a 980 Ti or a 1070 or whatever, but the thing is that I can't carry my desktop around, I'm only home just 4-5 hours before going to bed, so I do gaming and MOSTLY video editing outside home that's why I need a GTX980M in a coulple of months.
I don't expect getting a solid 1080p ultra AAA 60 fps, I surely know that a 960M will not do it but I'm fine with 60 fps in medium settings and 30 in medium-high or just high but if it can't handle a game properly now, talking in 2 years time...games such as new Assassins Creed and similar titles released in 2018 or soemthing around there..those won't be even 30 fps...or very low settings... I just don't see myself editing a 4/6 K video or even an UltraHD Bluray encoding with a GTX960M or doing heavy stuff in Premiere Pro and After effects. That's why I asked, if I could upgrade to a GTX980M or the equivalent in 2 years time (GTX 1080M?? ) As for now everything is doing perfectly at 1080p except gaming

Teh 960m is the best card that laptop comes equipped with, so you won't be able to go any higher. In general, one can upgrade a laptop upto and including it's line-s(all laptops using the same "chasis") top tier specs.

 

[Woxter]

Hi, I've got an Asus GL752VW DH71 and it features an MXM GTX960M, the thing is that games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3, AC Unity struggle a little bit on Ultra settings so they work fine at medium-high settings (not even high) I can cope with that because it sounds reasonable but..if it can't handle fully a 1080p 2014-2015 game....then in 2 years time it won't handle barely any new game so I just wanted to know if I could Upgrade the GTX960M to a GTX980M or equivalent in 2 years because It's a quite badass laptop I've got a beast CPU Power ( i7 6700HQ) and with the M.2 950 Pro + 32 GB DDR4 RAM I feel I've done an investment for at least 5 years but that GPU...will get outdated very soon. I asked some friends who know about this but some answered yes others said no...so I'm confused and I would like some help, thanks!!

There is no way around this: one may game on a laptop but don't ever expect AAA gaming in high/ultra and 1080 or up.
These things are desktop territory.
My advice: take that money and put it towards a desktop.
Or, if you must game on a laptop, wait a bit as i think razor and alienware are putting out solutions for attaching external desktop GPUs to their laptops.

I sure know that, I've got a desktop 4790K, GTX970, 32GB RAM, 2 SSD...etc soon it will be replaced when 4K becomes more mainstream (UltraHD Bluray Drvies and more brands manufacturing players) then I'll get a 4K screen and a 980 Ti or a 1070 or whatever, but the thing is that I can't carry my desktop around, I'm only home just 4-5 hours before going to bed, so I do gaming and MOSTLY video editing outside home that's why I need a GTX980M in a coulple of months.
I don't expect getting a solid 1080p ultra AAA 60 fps, I surely know that a 960M will not do it but I'm fine with 60 fps in medium settings and 30 in medium-high or just high but if it can't handle a game properly now, talking in 2 years time...games such as new Assassins Creed and similar titles released in 2018 or soemthing around there..those won't be even 30 fps...or very low settings... I just don't see myself editing a 4/6 K video or even an UltraHD Bluray encoding with a GTX960M or doing heavy stuff in Premiere Pro and After effects. That's why I asked, if I could upgrade to a GTX980M or the equivalent in 2 years time (GTX 1080M?? ) As for now everything is doing perfectly at 1080p except gaming

Teh 960m is the best card that laptop comes equipped with, so you won't be able to go any higher. In general, one can upgrade a laptop upto and including it's line-s(all laptops using the same "chasis") top tier specs.

Thank you very much, so in about 2-3 years time do you advice me to sell my laptop and just buy a new one?

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hi, I've got an Asus GL752VW DH71 and it features an MXM GTX960M, the thing is that games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3, AC Unity struggle a little bit on Ultra settings so they work fine at medium-high settings (not even high) I can cope with that because it sounds reasonable but..if it can't handle fully a 1080p 2014-2015 game....then in 2 years time it won't handle barely any new game so I just wanted to know if I could Upgrade the GTX960M to a GTX980M or equivalent in 2 years because It's a quite badass laptop I've got a beast CPU Power ( i7 6700HQ) and with the M.2 950 Pro + 32 GB DDR4 RAM I feel I've done an investment for at least 5 years but that GPU...will get outdated very soon. I asked some friends who know about this but some answered yes others said no...so I'm confused and I would like some help, thanks!!

There is no way around this: one may game on a laptop but don't ever expect AAA gaming in high/ultra and 1080 or up.
These things are desktop territory.
My advice: take that money and put it towards a desktop.
Or, if you must game on a laptop, wait a bit as i think razor and alienware are putting out solutions for attaching external desktop GPUs to their laptops.

I sure know that, I've got a desktop 4790K, GTX970, 32GB RAM, 2 SSD...etc soon it will be replaced when 4K becomes more mainstream (UltraHD Bluray Drvies and more brands manufacturing players) then I'll get a 4K screen and a 980 Ti or a 1070 or whatever, but the thing is that I can't carry my desktop around, I'm only home just 4-5 hours before going to bed, so I do gaming and MOSTLY video editing outside home that's why I need a GTX980M in a coulple of months.
I don't expect getting a solid 1080p ultra AAA 60 fps, I surely know that a 960M will not do it but I'm fine with 60 fps in medium settings and 30 in medium-high or just high but if it can't handle a game properly now, talking in 2 years time...games such as new Assassins Creed and similar titles released in 2018 or soemthing around there..those won't be even 30 fps...or very low settings... I just don't see myself editing a 4/6 K video or even an UltraHD Bluray encoding with a GTX960M or doing heavy stuff in Premiere Pro and After effects. That's why I asked, if I could upgrade to a GTX980M or the equivalent in 2 years time (GTX 1080M?? ) As for now everything is doing perfectly at 1080p except gaming

Teh 960m is the best card that laptop comes equipped with, so you won't be able to go any higher. In general, one can upgrade a laptop upto and including it's line-s(all laptops using the same "chasis") top tier specs.

Thank you very much, so in about 2-3 years time do you advice me to sell my laptop and just buy a new one?

You'll have to get a new one, obviously.

 

[Andres_18]

Hi, I've got an Asus GL752VW DH71 and it features an MXM GTX960M, the thing is that games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3, AC Unity struggle a little bit on Ultra settings so they work fine at medium-high settings (not even high) I can cope with that because it sounds reasonable but..if it can't handle fully a 1080p 2014-2015 game....then in 2 years time it won't handle barely any new game so I just wanted to know if I could Upgrade the GTX960M to a GTX980M or equivalent in 2 years because It's a quite badass laptop I've got a beast CPU Power ( i7 6700HQ) and with the M.2 950 Pro + 32 GB DDR4 RAM I feel I've done an investment for at least 5 years but that GPU...will get outdated very soon. I asked some friends who know about this but some answered yes others said no...so I'm confused and I would like some help, thanks!!

There is no way around this: one may game on a laptop but don't ever expect AAA gaming in high/ultra and 1080 or up.
These things are desktop territory.
My advice: take that money and put it towards a desktop.
Or, if you must game on a laptop, wait a bit as i think razor and alienware are putting out solutions for attaching external desktop GPUs to their laptops.

 

[Andres_18]

No,are we on 2013? Now there is laptops so much better that desktops.There is now laptops with two gtx 1080 and i7 6800

 

[Hlsgsz]

No,are we on 2013? Now there is laptops so much better that desktops.There is now laptops with two gtx 1080 and i7 6800

Nevermind 2013, that was not the case in april

 

[rgd1101]

No,are we on 2013? Now there is laptops so much better that desktops.There is now laptops with two gtx 1080 and i7 6800

cost a lot more too