Will C90s work with non-asus MXMII cards?

I know that the Asus cards will not work in any other MXM laptops but is the converse true?

The reason I ask is that my AW after serving me well for almost two years has developed a mobo problem that seems unfixable, I have been eying the C90 for some time and I am prepared to spring for one but I am on an extreme austerity budget but yet want to get myself off the family desktop asap. (17 year old with access to a limited amount of savings plus minor accumulation of hourly wages)

As such I happen to have a perfectly good gf 6600 MXMII card and the evil plan would be to use that for a couple of months until I could buy an upgrade (and if Asus releases an 8800 card all the better I wait)

Now I know this isn't going to give me stellar performance but it'll do, because I'm serious about the money being tight issue. Anyway if anyone can confirm whether or not this will work (and whether any of the resellers would be willing to sell me a c90s sans gpu) that would be great.

If no one knows, its not like I'm using it at the moment so I would be willing to front the cost to ship the card to anyone with a c90 willing to give it a try.

 

I don't have an answer for you just a further question:

Will any other cards work in the A8Js? Is it similar to the C90 in that way?

 

As far as I'm aware, the A8 series does *not* have a swappable gpu. Only the C90 has that option, and it's up for debate whether or if Asus will ever release an upgrade to the gpu for that unit.

 

They promised at least 5 cards and we got 4 up2date.

 

All they have released so far is the gddr3 version of the 8600 card. An ATI card should be on the way according to at least one vendor on this forum. I'm going took hard at that one as I prefer catalyst (they'll be number one again eventually

Whether the card you mentioned will work I don't know. I would love to pop it in mine and see

 

Ok, well hopefully one of the resellers will be able to give a definitive answer, if not well have to see what we can work out, hopefully someone lives close to or in Buffalo.

 

Nah there s more than that. There is a 7700 DDR2, a 8500GT/8600M GS, 8600M GT DDR2 and GDDR3. I've seen the 7700 and 8500 at excaliberpc for $80 and $150 respectively

 

JCMS....well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle....learn something new everday I thought they started out with the 8600GT ddr2, but I'm new to the C90s scene

 

So if 5 cards were promised, and 4 are already out, only the ATI card seems to be the card yet to be released. Guess that's it....

Looks like the gddr3 is the strongest card that would ever be in the c90. No more hopes for the 8800 and higher. It's still a good laptop nonetheless....

 

There seems to have a 8800M coming for a 15.4'' at Alienware. Asus also said we would get one if MXM II is available for it.

I think the reason why we don't see the 7700 and 8500 often is because the c90s was supposed to be released arround april I believe, but it got delayed util July so the 8600 was out.

I bought my unit in september and the manufacturing date is march 19th

 

The 7700 and 8500 aren't really one of the upgrades in my opinion. The so called "8500" was only available to a few sellers and the 7700 even less so. THe 8600 dd2 is honestly the base card.

 

Well who in their right mind would buy the c90s (being dtr through and through whatever gpu it has) and get the 8500 or 7700? You're saving what, 50 or 100 bucks? and taking a fairly sizable performance hit for it

Thus why I would prefer to run it with what I already have until I have to money to upgrade properly.

 

People who need a strong CPU for other things, like encoding and not gaming...

 

No no. .please don't try other cards cause it might cause issue and won't boot. Excaliberpc's card are made for C90S Only.

I've tried the 8600GT on my Z84J without luck making it to boot.

 

Well I know that the c90 cards won't work in other computers but I wouldn't think it necessarily has to work both ways.
I'm not going to buy the thing under the assumption it will work, but it can't hurt for someone who already has one to try, worst that can happen is it wont post.