There goes my chance for most modded 7738g

A guy posted on youtuve about his 7738G that had a GTX260M in it.

I was sceptical as there is no room for a type-B card (due to capacitors and such) so I called him out on it.

Well blow me, he did it the hard-core way:

YouTube - GTX 260 ON ACER 7738G - MOUNTING PROCEDURE - By IvY

 

OMG the crazy guy desoldered the capacitors and rewired them...

 

The inductors too, then took a hacksaw to his heatsink.

It's so crazy I am thinking about doing the same to a GTX460M without the power heatsink so I dont need to haksaw my own stuff.

The soldering looks simple enough, I have an old 5935G motherboard thats dead that I am going to practise on.

The only long term downside is that i'd have to cut one of the bottom pannel screw holes off to be able to put the cover on. It's not massivly important as there are 4 screws already holding it down.

 

Allienware x15 Nvidia 260GTX MXM B - Acer Aspire 7738G But how to install drivers

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Hello, I install Nvidia 260GTX following this link but.

Acer Aspire 7738G Upgrade GT130M To GTX 260M Alienware (Video By IvY Omnia HD).avi - YouTube

But my problem is that i am unable to install drivers on it as whatever drivers i try and what so ever windows 7 64bit or 86bit. i am unable to get the drivers installed. Its not detecting the drivers only standard VGA drivers are installed. Please advice is there any bios update i need .

Awaiting response.

 

v285.79 Windows 7/Vista 64bit | NVIDIA OEM Mobile - LaptopVideo2Go Forums

But the 6770M is faster and fits without mods while running cooler.

 

And we didn't even talk about the Quadro 2000M, which is basically GeForce GT 560M.

BTW, that hot hacksaw-on-heatpipe action is not really a good idea - heatpipes have fluid in them, for convection. Attack one with a hacksaw, and its heat transfer statistics diminish big time (close to 0).

 

GTX560M = 775/1550/625 192 shaders, 24 ROPs, 192bit GDDR5
Quadro = 550/1100/900 192 shaders, 16 ROPs, 128bit DDR3

Less Rops, lower clocks, less than half the memory bandwidth.

It's not even close to a GTX460M, plus it has half the bandwidth of the 6770M while consuming almost twice the power.

What he did was cut the heatpipes, remove them and then place the copper insert of his cooler on the copper insert of the old one to keep the VRM heatsink attached.

 

wow! really hard core xD nice one tho.

 

please,
i have a 7738g with an hardware mod for mxm 3.0b video card
when i can put in the 7738g a mxm 3.0b card hd5850m?
there is a problem with the ram slot, and the card will not start working.
Is necessary to upgrade the notebook firmware?
Im waiting your help
many thanks
Riccardo

 

Hey there, the hd5850 is compatible, though mine was a Dell card.

Has to sit on the ram slots and you need to be careful with the heatsink.

Don't expect firmware updates as Acer never dreamed of this.

Either your card is dead or the vbios is not compatible.

 

hello Meaker,
You are the Guru of acer aspire 7738g hardware mod.
My card is a 5870m taked from a Clevo (W870CU, W860CU, P150, P170, W880CU, X7200, X8100), can i flash the vbios Dell?
How other card i can by for my 7738g? im looking to a 6870m on ebay from an Alienware M17 with Dell vbios, is this card ok for my notebook?
many thanks
Riccardo

 

Possibly, I'm afraid you are in uncharted waters. I am the only one to have tested a 5850M, dell cards seemed to have worked in the past. The 6870M has a chance at working.

As for flashing the bios, the machine will refuse to boot without a recognised (ie working) graphics card so blind flashing is not possible.