Swapping a GTX460M with a mobility HD5870?

Hello guys,

I wonder if swapping the GTX460M with a HD5870 in a G73JW is possible. Similar wattage and heat sink too but I'm not sure if the port is the same. So has anyone tried this crazy idea before?

 

No its impossible because the heat sink is different on the G73JW AND on G73JH !!

 

Really? I guess can try swapping the heatsink too then

 

Not impossible but inpracticle the cost that your facing along with the possible issues and then you will have to change the BIOS/Vbios along with changing the heatsink.

Not worth the increase in power between the GTX and 5870 tbh. Just buy a JH.

 

No, the GPU slot had to be moved because the 460M is twice the size of the 5870M. So that won't work either. Just buy a JH. You can sell your JW and buy a JH or you can make a trade.

 

Ew why would you want to swap those anyway

 

Performance? Preference? Fear (of having the GPU die 2 years in, like most nvidia gpus)?

 

QFT.

You obviously haven't heard of any NVIDIA GPU's outside of the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M, and 8600M. I feel sorry about that. Maybe someday you'll see what an amazing company NVIDIA truly is.

 

Oy Oy nothing wrong with the 8 series my 8700M GT SLI with the G84 core ran at 95oC solid for 2 years and I still made a profit on it when I sold it!

 

But you can buy the G73JH heatsink !

 

Which means squat because the MXM slot was MOVED!!! The 460M is inserted into the motherboard horizontally, the 5870M is inserted into the G73jh vertically. So if you use a G73jh heatsink on a G73jw motherboard? Use your brain!

 

Both companies are cool with their own problems. I had an Nvidia card and it still rocks till now. I had ATI card and it went well until obsolete. But about the topic swapping those cards it will be so much of a hassle. Performance wise, you may not feel the difference.

 

Actually, I prefer nvidia over ATi, all my ATI cards run hot and loud, and all my nvidia cards fail eventually. Since I replace my desktop cards relatively frequently, having the nvidia cards die in 2-3 years isn't a big deal for me... but it is for some people.

I generally don't go in for discrete cards in my laptops, so I'm basing my opinions on their desktop lines.

 

I was thinking that having the ability to use both cards in 1 laptop would be cool, but if the port lay out is to insert vertically for JH then yea guess it's out of luck.

 

At the end of the day you just have to look at the benefits the 460 GTX has over the 5870M for example......................hmmm well....................

 

I have to admit, I'm totally ok with a performance hit for the lower temps. Even in a 86f room, I havent seen the GPU go past 73c in games like GTA4 and other GPU intensive games.

I get a much smoother frame rate than when I had the JH in a lot of games, prolly more so from the SB CPU, either way, the temps alone makes me more than happy with having a GTX460m.

 

Except that the newer revisions of the ATI card run almost as cool...

 

Im totally the opposite to be honest I think if its not hot make it hot and I will overclock and drain every last drop of power out of the GPU at the expense of extra heat. At the end of the day I wont have this laptop for longer than 2 years anyway and the GTX 460 will be out of date and struggle on high before the SB that you have in it will be.

Although with 825/1100 ATI clocks I still only get 74oC gaming and 82oC extreme burn so it makes no difference over here.

 

The difference between extreme burn w/ 8x AA and displacement mapping and just regular furmark (no options) for me is like 14C. Which means when gaming I usually top out at 85.

 

However what DCx is not telling you is that he is a secretely going to repaste with IC7 and will join the 14oC lower fan club quite soon.