mxm III on a c90s

I was wondering if c90s can fit a mxm III since 8800m is more likely to be a mxm III card, well i opened my c90s and measured the space available around the pci-e slot and it may be able to fit a 82*100mm card(may be a little bit tight; or can we just trim down the edge of a mxm III card >.<) but da problem is: will the c90s chipset recognize a mxm III card????

 

thats what i thought... not sure on the dimensions comparable to the mxm2 card though. but asus is doing everything for the card some i am sure they will make it fit if they want to keep us happy. all they have to do is get the chip and pop it on a mxm2 card... actually it should theoretically give better battery life and have less heat because of the 65nm chip

 

MXM Type II has a W:73mm L:78mm while Type III has a W:82mm L:100mm I doubt it'll fit,,,but we can always hope! I'd also imagine that the 8800m will draw more power and be hotter then the 8600GT DDR2/GDDR3 even though its a 65nm chip. You could trim some off but as far as I know it'll kill the card,,,and the 8800m GTX is priced at around $400/$500 kinda steep.

 

Forget about it, the 8800M GTS might be a possibility not more. MXM II is also only 25W, and the 8700M GT consumes 29

 

As mentioned above its not just about form factor, but also power consumption. Considering that the C90s does not have a traditional bay for MXM modules a MXM type III card might fit in that area, but will the notebook supply enough power. Heres hoping for a 8800M GS or simply waiting for a 9600M GT.

 

isn't the the pci-e for all mxm cards the same??? so even if a type III consumes more power than does the type II, the pci-e will still supply enough power to it, right?? I heard that people had the power related prob w/ x6800, but solved by switching to a 110v ac adapter........

 

Consuming more power = outputting more heat.

The 8800m is/should be a MXMIII card because it fits in a higher thermal envelope (35W, I think?) whereas MXMII cards have cooling for some smaller amount (22 or 25W).

Even if you cut down the edges, etc, got it to fit in, the cooling systems would be entirely not up to snuff, and you would overheat quite fast.

 

Again, 35W, 22W and 25W refer to power not heat, true proper cooling must be present, but the power out put does not have anything to do with the cooling that is provided. Hence the more power you pump in the more heat its gonna generate. Its easy to assume that you can say a 35W thermal envelope since the amount of power in equals the amount of heat put out, but its not the standard its set by.

Also, have you ever opened a C90S up. The reason this threat got start is because of the fact the C90S does not have a standard MXM bay which only allows you to fit one size of MXM card into it. The question is if you stick it in, can the C90S provide what ever power demands the 8800M needs.

 

well, the heat problem is never what i concern b/c you can always open the back lid and place it on top of a laptop cooler, i did that to my c90s. the cpu idles around 48'C and GPU 58'C

 

I don't think the C90S can actually provide enough power to power a 8800, let alone a 8700.

 

thats weird because im running my 8600 at the same speeds of a 8700 and it does fine

 

The max that the C90S can consume is 25W. 8700 consume 29W. You can overclock your 8600GT to a stock speed of 8700, and that's fine. However, if we were to put 8700 in a C90S, we don't know whether or not if C90S can actually power a 8700. Worst case scenario would be that the 8700 would just overheat in the C90S, unless you do some fancy modding.