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    Buying NVidia Quadro NVS 160M for Dell E6400

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by fabek, Jan 16, 2011.

  1. fabek

    fabek Newbie

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    Hello friends, I'm new!

    I've searched forums before and couldn't find answer for my question: Where to buy that NVidia 160M for my Dell E6400?

    Best regards, fabek.
     
    fabek, Jan 16, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I believe the Quadro for the E6400 is soldered onto the motherboard and is not a removable module. To replace that would be changing out the whole motherboard which might need to reimage your computer in doing so. And the 160M is as powerful as a 9300M GS so don't expect miracles if you were to change up. Hope this helps.
     
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    It is soldered, no doubt about that I have an e6500 and I've disassembled it down to the motherboard.

    It cannot be replaced by the user unless your quite handy with a soldering iron+know what you are doing.
     
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    You would need more than a soldering iron for a BGA chip.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 16, 2011
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    I've seen the 160 nvs on the e6500 I think soldering iron+skills and you can take it out. Maybe with some aluminum/torch gun you may be able to but would incredibly dangerous.
     
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    Thanks guys for for fast response althought that isn't good news for me.
     
    fabek, Jan 17, 2011
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    Don't expect to game with the Quadro line of graphics, it is for CAD work. If you are looking truly for a power house of a graphics card, you might want to look at a desktop or a Precision laptop. Unfortunately high end discreet graphics won't come in a convenient 14.1" laptop, you minimum need the 15.6" or 17" notebook.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jan 17, 2011
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    No way. Infrared oven is the only way to do it.
     
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    I meant hot air gun not torch gun, sorry about the confusion.

    Infrared oven is not the only way to do it. Hot air gun, and a soldering iron can do it. BGA is not irremovable, but it certainly is not easy either.
     
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    ...removable sure. but sticking another one on there with the same solder sounds like maybe a 20% chance of success.
    I suppose you could use new solder balls and a stencil to make it reliabe... Thats not actually a bad idea. I'd like to make a MXM 2.1 gtx 280m that is capable of SLI...
     
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    Success rates are not bad, remember most soldered parts on boards are stuck on ovens to solder or remove solder (cheap but not efficient), the soldering iron with a fine point can easily do the same except of course with just the soldering point. Someone with some skill can easily do a far better soldering job on the BGA chip then the process used to mass produce them could.
     
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