Ati Radeon Mobility HD 5870 on M15x or M17x

if you have ddr5 if not it's worse.

 

the 5850 is GDDR5...this has been thoroughly confirmed

 

Hi there,

for the CF or SLI cable, is it integrated with video card or it is sticking to the main-board? I mean does the MXM video card board come with the CF or SLI connector?

Thanks a lot

 

the mxm card will have the connector on it - most of the time, some cards are not crossfire enabled

the cable is between the mxm cards and independent of the motherboard

you can replace the word crossfire with SLI for nvidia cards, they have the same system layout

 

ok, thank you so much for information

 

Right I'm about to post my gtx 260m on eBay and I want to know if this is a mxm 3 type b or type a card. Pretty sure it's type b but I need confirmation.

 

260m is mxm 3 type b

 

Thanks your a lifesaver, presumably the 5870 is the same, as it fits the same laptop.

 

How do i check the tem on my 5870m on my M17x r2? I use HWmoniter but it only gives me the temp off my cpu.

 

Try HWINfo32

 

I use pc wizard 2010

 

Still no temps on my gpu.

 

download latest gpu-z or amd clock tools, those should provide you with temps.

 

Which AMD clock tools?

 

Thanks. GPUz 0.4.3 works. The 0.4.2 that I was originally using didnt work. +1rep.

 

One more question, at idle my gpu runs at about 49 degrees celcius, but within a minute of opening sims 3 and not actually playing it my temps hit 70 degrees celcius and seems to hover there, is that normal will my gpu overheat if I start playing more gpu intensive games like Modern Warfare 2?

 

what do you make of these thermal pads?

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They have a 5 W/m-k heat conductivity!

 

We have not tested them. Let me know how they work.

 

Just did the upgrade and the temp is throught the roof at idle!!! On the desktop the gpu is at 72C!!!! I have applied the thermal paste thinly and applied thermal pads to all required areas except for 2 small black chips on the gpu that require 10mm thermal pads. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

Also i had to install the drivers manually, but for some reason i can't get the acutal catalyst control centre to install.

 

so the 5870 is not covered under warranty but you use a 5870 flashed with a 5850 VBIOS

 

Lol sorry what?

 

for the M15x

the gpu they use is a 5870 flashed to say a 5850 (lower clocks but still)

 

Remember Moo.....this is Dell we are dealing with....

 

What temps do you guys get, idle mine is 55C and max gaming is 85C. Also do you have catalyst control centre working? The only way I could even get the drivers working was with a device manager direct install. This is on a m15x btw.