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    asus g55vw gpu upgrade.

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by carphreak, May 1, 2014.

  1. carphreak

    carphreak Notebook Guru

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    would it be possible to upgrade the gpu in the asus g55vw to a 800m gpu? Is it even possible to upgrade the gpu? thanks in advance.
     
    carphreak, May 1, 2014
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    The gpu is soldered in.
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 1, 2014
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    Even in the cases where Asus uses MXM cards, historically their hardware is proprietary and not upgradable.
     
    Prostar Computer, May 1, 2014
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    Yes it's usually the exception but in this case there is 0 chance.
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 2, 2014
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