ATI 4000 series upgrade thread.

I am as soon as possible upgrading my 8600m GT to a hd4650 from ATI. The 55nm tech is just too tempting, and if you ask me nVidia has a lot of catching up to do.

I decided to start a thread that has resources about upgrading to these new MXM cards. Stats, benchmarks, purchase sources, drivers, vBIOS's etc. If anybody has anything to contribute on this topic, here is the place.

Thanks!

 

search first. there's already a where to buy topic. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=371002
you can upgrade without problems to a 3650 so you should be able to upgrade to a 4650 too though we never known until someone tries it.
buying the card is one of the hard parts.
there are also some MSI notebooks who use the 4650 you can trie to buy parts. But I would try here:
http://www.ec21.com/offer_detail/Sell_ATI_HD_4650_M96--8033188.html

 

I plan to upgrade my HD3650 to an HD4650, also I saw somewere that the HD4850 is MXM II if thats true I will upgrade to it.

 

well.. being MXM II is not a warranty that it works. Actually it doesn't work most times.
The HD4850 is type III so forget about it if your notebook doesn't have a mxm type III slot. Also if it has it may be possible but beware of power and heat issues. Alienware will sell 4850 cards for the M17 aka oczwhitebook.

 

My laptop has MXM III (its weird that gateway only included a MXM II card), I saw it by myself I also confirmed that at the mxmupgrade page, heat issues naaaaaaaa way, my max temps while gaming are 60C and 70C REALLY overclocked, I also have a P processor wich reduces heat pollutions.


But I guess that I will get an HD4650 to prevent problems...

 

If you're impressed by 55nm, wait a few more months and the 4860/4830 will be out in 40nm and GDDR5 memory.

 

4850 is MXM-III

 

DDR5 and 40nm...wow...

Does anybody have any info on equivalent nVidia tech?..I mean it seems like the next wave in GPUs is just totally ATi. Even their pricing is better.

I did search, I also wanted to make a thread that contained all the mentioned topics not just one.

And an acer 5920g has already been upgraded to 4650. There's a huge thread about it on this forum http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=381892.

Also, The guy at the link you posted unfortunately will not sell and 4650's. When I emailed him as to why, he replied (word for word): "I have no want to sell stock of 4650 now. I have 3650 and 3650 will do meet your requirements."

I'm not sure if this means has has some and doesn't want to sell them, or that he's out of stock...lol...

 

Yer it seems that ATI is ruling this stage, is introducing new tech, I mean wow 40nm also better clocks, faster memory, better performance, lower power usage, less heat, and I havent heard about faulty cores! Im in love with my current HD3650! but ya know we gamers always want newer things .