260m Already out! What are the fit chances?

So I was looking at the alienware forum on this site and they are trying to figure out if the 260m card would fit into an m15x. The card is supposedly around $400-$500 given the price from rjtech.
Does anyone know if this card would fit the physical slot of a G50vt-x5? Or any G50?

 

The only two GPU's that will work in any G50 are the 9700 GT that came with the G50V and the 9800 GS that came with the G50Vt.

ASUS uses an inverted MXM Connector which would put a standard mxm card upside down not to mention the pinning probably doesnt match.

 

Not trying to give false hope, but I recall ASUS had the G71Gx in line which is supposedly equipped with the Geforce GTX 260M, so it might be possible (depending on the specifications of the card).

 

Dear Mr Cheeseman Sir,

May I please ask if you know when the G71Gx will retail ?

Hope to hear from you soon.


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@Cheeseman it might be possible using the card ASUS sells with the G71 but the card likely wont be available for individual purchase from ASUS for a while. ASUS will be making the GPU card themselves it wont be en existing card as they always do.

 

Off-topic and no offense, but a message board isn't email No need for formal starts or ends. Nothing wrong with it, but just caught my eye

 

The Nvidia 260M card is out? It was always out, its called an 9800M GTX

Anyways, the only way for the 260M card to fit the G50v, or vt, it would be by Asus making an update to G50 series like a G50vx or whatever that came equipped with one. I think all G50 motherboards are basically the same in the GPU connector so in theory it could fit one of the propietary 260M cards and all but who knows.

I don't have any high hopes, because most probably the thermal envelope would be too high to handle.

 

The GTX 260M is a die shrunk, OCed 9800M GTX w/ lower TDP.

 

As ClutchX2 said, the G50's are sporting a flipped MXM connector, so it will never happen.

 

the initial benchmarks from the NP8662 benchmark thread in the Sager forums show scores that are only a minor upgrade over the 9800M GTX (5-10%). The significance to me is that it actually runs in the NP8662, whereas the 9800M GTX required a stronger cooling solution, and that it's offered at the same price as the 9800M GS of the old Sager NP8660.

 

Exactly, the OC isn't that much so performance difference isn't much, but the die shrink means lower TDP which means cooling is less and it can fit into smaller/thinner notebooks.

 

There are a bunch of sites which sell ASUS replacement parts. Not too long ago a member on this site purchased an ASUS Geforce 9500M GS for his notebook, while there are a few others who have bough 9600M GT's for their C90's. Anyhow, I'm not holding my breath for an upgrade, cause I'm happy with what I got and when the time comes I'll just buy a new laptop.

 

C90 is a different story. G50 about all you can get is a bluray and the stock 6 cell. Cant even get the bluetooth module for it lol. Not sure what other sites have individually. I talked to GenTech about the bluetooth said they didnt have any but didnt make any mention of being able to get it.

Its sad they cant or wont stock a bracket that I could contract any number of companies to make. The minimum order is too much for me personally lol. Its like trying to get a custom t-shirt minimum 1,000.

 

You can upgrade 260m from G71Gx, if GPU from G71Gx 512MB, it'll fit perfectly on our heatsink

 

say,

I was wondering how did you managed to get crysis warhead to run at an average fps of 30s on your 9800 GS ???

 

His 9800m gs is overclocked to speeds past that of a dts and his cpu is at 2.9..

 

*gts* not dts lol