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    Bad news for those waiting for NVidia MXM2

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Silentheero, Jun 3, 2008.

  1. Silentheero

    Silentheero Notebook Consultant

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    They just announced that there new line of mobile video cards, the 9m series, would be coming out this summer, but as MXM3 cards. This means that C90s and other notebooks that were waiting on this are screwed unless Radeon pulls something off.

    Who didn't see this coming? :(

    Full article here: Engadget
     
    Silentheero, Jun 3, 2008
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  2. Devil_Kai

    Devil_Kai Notebook Enthusiast

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    MXM is such a scam... though they push it as a solution for the purchasing public to upgrade their systems, its really just a standard designed to make manufacturing and after sale support easier for the manufacturer. It has little to no end user benefit.

    And yes, I'm bitter about it. =P
     
    Devil_Kai, Jun 3, 2008
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    burnz007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does the G1S support MXM ? If so does that mean you could upgrade your graphics module?
     
    burnz007, Jun 3, 2008
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  4. HaloGod2007

    HaloGod2007 Notebook Virtuoso

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    this defeats the purpose of MXM....thats like intel changing the cpu socket types every revision..why not use a standard pcie slot that all notebook motherboards at a certain size share
     
    HaloGod2007, Jun 3, 2008
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  5. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    They said MXM 3.0, not MXM III :) It's like PCI-E 2.0 for desktop, it's not the size of MXM I, II, III or IV. MXM 2.0 was only released last year



    Also, http://www.mxm-sig.org/, all the documents are password protected but you can see it was only unveiled this year :).

    EDIT: June 2008: MXM 3.0 developer kits available
     
    JCMS, Jun 3, 2008
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  6. deserteagle2525

    deserteagle2525 Notebook Guru

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    Yeah, it looks like its just a new standard for developing the cards, not necessarily the size or physical dimensions of it.

    Almost gave me a heart attack. lol :p
     
    deserteagle2525, Jun 3, 2008
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  7. Silentheero

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    Ah, thanks for the clarification. I didn't know the standards were separate. So will most notebooks be able to run the version 3.0 graphics module specification?
     
    Silentheero, Jun 7, 2008
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  8. JCMS

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    Well, since the PCI-E 2.0 cards run in PCI-E 1.0 16x, there shouldn't be any problem.
     
    JCMS, Jun 7, 2008
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