How easy is to change graphic card on the m860tu?

Im considering buying another card, possibly the 9800M GTS....but if its easy enough i will install it myself......

 

what've you got in it now?

as for exchanging, shouldn't be much harder than taking off the service cover, removing the heatsink, pulling the GPU out of the PCIe slot, putting in the new GPU, applying thermal paste, putting the heatsink back on, and closing the service cover again.

 

from what i know you cant get 8660 with other GPU...

 

I have the m860tu with the 9600mGS.

 

I believe that the 9600M GS is somewhat integrated on the board.

 

Well, that's not what my seller told me......and i actually bought this in condition i could upgrade later, doesnt make sense if this uses the mxm iii connector that i couldnt swap later.....

 

Theres only one way to do this:

Take it apart and check it out.

 

well on the clevo website it does say the 9600mGS uses the type mxm II, i hope that doesnt mean it isnt swapable....
Although it seems that mxm type iii connectors suport graphic cards that use type II......

 

It'll be a type 2 board in a type 3 slot (they are backwards compatible) so it should be very easy to swap out.

 

Yeah, this notebook doesn't come with any integrated graphics options, and you bought one from a reseller that put in a cheap-o card, I guess. I'd upgrade to the 9800M GTS as well, if I were you and could afford it. You probably need to remove the heatsink (looks medium difficulty level) and reapply thermal paste between the card and the heatsink, but otherwise it's a slotted card.

I didn't know anyplace sold this notebook with the 9600M GS. Where did you buy it? (It's significantly worse of a card than a 9700M GTS or higher).

 

Yep, it was in Portugal. Im considering buying the 9800m GTS.....Anyplace cheap to get it?

 

They're really hard to get; the only MXM notebook video cards that I've seen sold on the web have been 9600M or below, but I checked a month+ ago. I'd contact the place you bought it from, or one of the big European Clevo resellers, like Kobalt.

 

It's available as 440 CND upgrade from Eurocom. That's 280 or so Euro.

 

Wow, that's very cheap, problem is shipping...

 

Does it worth more the GT or the GTS....the difference of power might not be that much....

 

To be honest, it really depends on what you want.

You may find out more from this thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=316530

The OP bought a 9800M GT from Eurocom. I don't think it's with him yet, but you can check with him regarding their service at least.

As for price, the GT and GTS currently perform very closely at stock clocks.

 

The 9800M is leagues ahead of the 9600MGS. You could probably max out every game (cept Crysis, GT 4 and Warhead).