945G Express Chipset with PCI-E x16 Support?

I just got a Gateway MX8715. It was spec'd at 1.6 Pentium Dual-Core T2060 (more on that later) and a 943 GML chipset, DDR2 533. I get it home and find that it is a CoreDuo 1.73 t2250 on a 945G Express Chipset with a 950 GMA, DirectX 10 blah blah blah. Upon further research, I find that the 945G supports PCI-E x16. This chipset also supports 667DDR2.

So I am thinking this is a good thing. Gateway tells me that I am crazy and that there is no way that I could have gotten those components in that system, that their specs don't lie.

Hey, I'm not mad, I got more than I planned, yay me. Here is my connundrum. For the life of me, I cannot find a site to buy a GeForce Go 7 Series GPU anywhere. Everything points to lappys that already have them installed. Ebay is no help, they only have ones outfitted for Dell machines.

Questions:

If I get one fitted for a Dell, can it be modified to fit my unit?

Is there a place to get one at all(a la Newegg)?

Here are a few links that I got my info from:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/
This one talks about the 950GMA and how 945G chipset have PCI-E x16 support

http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/...&culture=en-US
Here they all are side by side, the only ones that support dual core CPUs, which I have, also seem to support PCI-E x16. Am I crazy, or do I have some upgrading to do?

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/...5906Rsp2.shtml

Here is Gateways spec... I wonder how they could be so wrong???

 

You're out of luck. Once you have the GMA 950 your stuck with it. No way around it, unless you switch out the motherboard, but for as much as that would cost you might as well get a new notebook. Also, just because something supports something doesn't mean that particular motherboard has that feature.

 

Fraid Mr Bots is right, you would have to add a new motherboard

 

It's DirectX 9, DirectX 10 GPUs will not be out in notebooks until sometime in May at the earliest.

They will be the Intel 965GM or 965PM (Nvidia Geforce Go 8000 series)

 

WEll crap, I thought I had made out. Oh well... I guess I am doomed to 950GMA hell.

Vista says that it is a direct x 10 GPU. Can this be right? Does it even matter? Is ther anyway to improve the performance of this particular GMA?

 

Vista is telling you wrong...it comes install with DX10, but the card is a DX9 card that can only pump out DX9 graphics.

 

theres always the asus xg which is supposed to come out next month.

 

True...but supposedly it will not be available on the retail market.

 

I'm sure OEM's will sell it like if it were.