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DV6z APU Replacement

Discussion in 'HP' started by abyssalx, Oct 9, 2011.

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Now, I know they don't sell the mobile APU's on Newegg, but I've found them other places, and I was wondering, are they replaceable? HTWingNut took an HP DV6z apart and it makes the APU look replaceable - and even though AMD is awesome and they use the same socket a lot, would replacing the APU to a newer model APU with a different integrated GPU chip mess things up? Like, with the switchable graphics, and the crossfire?

I think maybe it would mess with the crossfire, but maybe not the graphics switching, cause it's taking the integrated switch right from the APU slot.

I honestly am guessing I'll just have to wait till a new line comes out and test it myself, but if anyone has any ideas, throw them out here I guess.

abyssalx, Oct 9, 2011

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As long as there is current BIOS support, it should be no problem. The DV6z came in all flavors of APU's, so A4's, A6's and A8's all work.

Ebay is your friend in this case.

Hybrid Xfire support is more dependent on a proper dGPU. The IGPU exists in every APU and has to be paired with XX dGPU to create XX(iGPU+dGPU). It's confusing I know.

Also, AMD's mobile sockets change every generation just like Intel's.

Xonar, Oct 9, 2011

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