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    After market mxm video cards

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by BruteLeo, Jul 28, 2011.

  1. BruteLeo

    BruteLeo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don't know why this hasn't be done yet, but there alot of people that look for better cards for their laptop/notebook but its hard to find sources to upgrade.
    I think BFG, MSI, Gigabyte, PNY should be jumping on this to make performance or just upgrade cards available to the public. I have a m17xr3 3d with gtx460m and i want a gtx580m and i know theres many others that are looking for the same. Could be some good business.
     
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    R3d Notebook Virtuoso

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    There are. You just haven't been looking hard enough.

    Try mxm-upgrade.
     
    R3d, Jul 28, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    MXM is a good idea, unfortunately most of the industry uses IGP or solders on GPUs onto the motherboard. Many manufacturers don't want you upgrading (thus you can buy a new laptop, and more profit for them). Unfortunately MXM is decreasing in popularity, Acer with the launch of Intel's Capella platform strayed away from MXM and now has GPU's soldered onto the motherboard. The newest ASUS G series laptops have their GPU's soldered onto the motherboard as well.
     
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    dragmn2 Notebook Guru

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    This is unfortunate since upgrading GPU is one of the best perks of some laptops like Clevo. Also, if one were to be looking for MXM GPU aftermarket parts, who is the most reliable seller from those with experience buying GPU?
     
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    is mxmupgrade the only place to buy these cards besides ebay? I didn't see anything on new egg
     
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    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    Rjetch just sells Clevo cards.
    You can find some cards from HP and Dell. Not that they are manufacturers.
    Their cards are probably from the same people like Compal and Wistron, manufacturers who know how to use MXM.

    And of course Asus and Toshiba are ODM brands which manufacture their own cards literally only for their laptops.

    There still aren't enough people upgrading for an entirely 3rd party manufacturer like PNY to come in and offer them.
    Unless of course they were actually really good at it and offered us some new cards that Nvidia doesn't release. Ahh, imagination...

    There are however a few entirely 3rd party manufacturers, they just don't really advertise themselves as a whole company. I believe there is one called A-tech AU / OSstore. They sell a ton of used and remanufactured cards I'm sure, but I think they do make a few of their own.

    I have a few cards I got from another company (a retailer, not a manufacturer) that were made in the USA. This proves there are a few companies out there. They are high end MXM 3.0 cards although some of them are unfinished... It goes to show they could make nonexistant cards (like widezus 6990m before its been released for example) if they wanted to.

    On the other hand, a few of us with some conviction, a BGA reball station and vBIOS modding skills could do it pretty easily...
    I don't know much about the newest gf114 and stuff like that. Are there desktop cores that have more shaders than any laptop card at the moment?
     
    niffcreature, Jul 29, 2011
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