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    Alienware Area-51 m15x and Quadro FX 1500M

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by 3dfxvoodoo, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. 3dfxvoodoo

    3dfxvoodoo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I been siting on a older m15x for some time now
    the gpu (9800gt) has been dead for a long time now
    I want to get it up and running again

    will a mxm 2 Quadro FX 1500M or fx570m work
    I know this card is on par with the nvidia 79xx ( I think is has the same gpu)
    it will do every thing I need it to
    will this gpu work in the system
    I don't care about what it can do or not do or if it works in windows (i use linux)
    I just need to know if that card will work hardware wise


    this is the card
    http://getpartsonline.com/images/ebay/417206-001.jpg
    I can get it for 40$ so I'm not out a lot
     
    3dfxvoodoo, Mar 21, 2012
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    voodle Notebook Enthusiast

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    The card in the pic looks like the FX1500m from an HP NX9440W, which looks like MXM but isn't, make sure that the card is regular standard MXM (so avoid if it did come from that laptop) but otherwise, yeah the M15x can use just about any MXM card as long as you can adapt the heatsink for it, I had a 9500m-GS in mine for a short while.
     
    voodle, Mar 26, 2012
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    i got a fx570m
    and it dose not work :mad: :mad: :cry:

    well I only spent 27$ on it

    what would be a good card for that would work
    under 70$ and will not burn up the lappy like my 9800 and 8800 did
     
    3dfxvoodoo, Mar 26, 2012
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    will any of these work?

    ebay
    idem #
    110846096136
    200731894625
    140727967440
    330705235552


    thanks
     
    3dfxvoodoo, Mar 26, 2012
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You have a M15x R1 right? Instead of putting in a worse card than your original 9800GT, couldn't you just switch to the internal Intel graphics card?
     
    protivakid, Mar 29, 2012
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    thats what I been using, but it's a gma 965 witch sucks
    I can still play cs 1.6 tho
     
    3dfxvoodoo, Mar 29, 2012
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    3dfxvoodoo, Mar 29, 2012
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