What Brand/Model is the 8600gt 256? Dell 1520

I know it is Nvidia but who is the manufacturer?

Thanks,

SXO792

 

Dell. They use their own design, and they either make it themselves or contract a vendor for the Dell specific design.

Let me guess, you are trying to upgrade another notebook? You can only upgrade a Dell notebook if it is being upgraded with one of the parts offered with that notebook at some time, and only with the Dell made GPU.

 

Are you kidding it's NVIDIA

go to www.nvidia.com and under products/notebooks/...

you can get the detailed info about the 8600gt card.

 

He's used to the desktop market. In desktops, NVIDIA only makes the chip, but other manufacturers make the card, like EVGA, XFX, Asus, BFG, MSI, just to name a few.

It's totally different with notebooks, like Greg said, but ASUS is making a push to further standardize notebook graphics.

 

No what he wants to know is the manufacturer of the card, Nvidia does not manufacture their own cards, just the graphics core, other companies like eVGA add their own memory and cooler designs to the Nvidia core.

ATI however does make some of its own cards.

 

NVIDIA makes the chip, dude.. In other words, the G84 core, The actual card is made by different manufacturers, as in the desktop segmant by Asus, MSI, Hercules etc.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Thanks! I purchased 2 1520s at the beginning of July. One has the 256 8600 gt the other just on board graphics. I just wanted to know who manufacturers the card for Drivers and Stuff like that. I know nvidia is the graphics core but sometimes different (desktop) card models have little tweaks and so forth. I am not used to laptops for gaming, but it is about to happen this weekend when I get my laptop... I got rid of my desktop so I could play games on the road and portable. I think 2.0 ghz and 8600gt should be able to play new and old stuff just fine. I also hope that the core is overclockable... I noticed the desktop version of the 8600 is very overclockable. So we will see how it goes... Thanks for all your responses.

SXO792

 

Because the graphics on the 1520 is a discrete module anyone that has received one will be able to tell you who makes it from their invoice, which lists the source for each separate component.

And yes, "Dell" makes it, but what that really means is Dell wrote the spec and some other company built it.