G73SW gpu swap

I was wondering if I would be able to take a 560M GTX designed for the G74SX and put it in my G73SW. Everything should be the same correct? Or am I wising in the wind on this idea?

 

Your GTX460M with your game clocks is more powerful than GTX 560M with stock clocks

 

I'm not sure that's what he was playing at. If he's already overclocked his 460, why wouldn't he overclock his 560? Not sure how far you could push the 560, but you'd think it would have similar tolerances.

 

Yeah.. If the 460 @ my game clocks is stronger than the stock 560... Then wouldn't the 560 overclocked be a beast..

 

The stock clocks of the 560m are higher, the card only a higher binned 460m (at least it seems so), this means chances are that you can clock it higher than 850MHz core, but there's no guarantee for this at all.

Anyway, would be interesting to see, but first of all you need to get your hands on a 560m. Also did you ever look at the 460m in the SW?
If you followed my thread of trying to upgrade the GPU of the JW you'll know that there are probably some problems... I wonder if someone ever looked at the GPU of the SW, has it the same layout as the GPU of the JW? Because in this case the 560m has to have the same special layout or you'll need a different heatsink to try this mod.

 

is it possible to fit in ati 5870m to g73sw? just curious

 

To fit it physically, you'd need a JH GPU heatsink and it will fit. However, there's no guarantee that the SW will make friends with the 5870, it doesn't like a 6970m after all. svl7 already tried that and a 470m too, both didn't work.

 

Anyone got some pics of the SW 460m? Or the interior of the system?

 

So its been confirmed that the 560M is just a 460M that is overclocked? I thought it was a different chip? or has the chip just been renamed?!

Appalling if that is the case and that is also no guarantee that you can clock it higher than you can overclock the GTX 460 if it can be 'binned' its out for production, same goes for the 740QM it is just a higher clocked 720QM before it is locked the CPU itself is the same.

Gonna have to wait for the G75

 

460m core is GF104, 560m is GF114. It's an updated, more power efficient core. GenTechPC managed 931MHz on the core.

 

Basically a 560m is a GF116 architecture, but as far as the clocks go, its 775/625/1550. So pretty much a 100mhz faster 460m, even all test results equal the same as a 775mhz clock 460m as well as the TDP rose from 72w to 75w. Only thing I think the 560m will have is better temps, but that isnt exactly confirmed other than the temps we've seen in the MSI 683.

@Svl7
I think Ken at GenTech posted some pics of the GPU, still trying to find it, but here is his post on the cpu, which shows the mainboard with gpu still connected.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/7382087-post934.html



EDIT : @Sarge, thought it was GTX460m = 106, and 560m = 116?

 

Ok, thank you. Seems to be the same stupid, everything-but-MXM-conform heatsink / GPU layout.

Would be really interesting to put an Asus 560m in the system, I wonder whether it would work.

I don't know. But since it's the same core count and same memory interface it would make sense to use the same chip (costs less than a new one!!) Maybe they simply renamed it, but just using a higher binning would make a lot of sense (economically).
But I really don't know this for sure, however,it would make sense imo. Chances that you can OC a 560m higher than a 460m are pretty big of course, but there's no warranty that it will work except for the stock clocks, but that's the same with all cards.

 

Yeah, can't find the post if ken did take pics of strictly the gpu, guess I just remembered wrong.

However, on Notebookcheck they definitely states the architecture being different for the 460m and 560m.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M - Notebookcheck.net Tech

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M - Notebookcheck.net Tech