nvidia 480m gtx G73..

so i was wondering, will the nvidia 480m gtx be able to be swaped in place of the 5870 in the G73s out right now? or will it be only for the one it comes OEM just thought i'd ask cause i would be willing to do the upgrade

 

If the 480GTX is rated at 100W I'm not sure if it would be able to handle the temps never mind the extra power needed to run it without throttling.
You really won't be gaining that much performance anyway.

 

thats true, i forgot about how hot it will get,

 

will it actually work though? or fit? what do you guys think the price of this bad boy be? would there even be a difference in performance at all?? what if you customized a heatsink or whatever, like some of the other guys have been doing and used a nice laptop cooler???? would that be suffient?>

 

I think with the proper heat sink it might fit, but the heat produced might cause some serious problems, I think it will probably overheat and burn something inside, due to the g73's design. If however the bios supports it and they have some sort of a TDP limit, that wont allow it to overheat, things might be good. But the performance gain is not so much if non at all, your better off staying with the 5870. Time will reveal what they have, maybe 6870 soon

 

Why is everyone already saying the 480M will perform only slightly better if at all than the 5870? Isn't that what people kept claiming with the desktop gpu's and look what happened with that.

 

It's already been tested, Hellcry put a 5870M in the same machine (D900f) that the GTX480M has been tested in. The 5870M performs within a few percentages of the 480M and beats it in several areas with only a small OC (something the 480M has no room for).

Also, 5870's are out in crossfire and cost about the same as a 480M machine yet they obliterate it in everything. Sure, it's 2 GPU's vs 1, but if you take in TDP and Cost, it's as fair of a comparison as comparing a single 5870M to a 480M.