M570TU Compatible Video Cards

I searched around for a while and found few results. I'm wondering if anyone has a complete list, official or unofficial, of video cards that would work in a Clevo M570TU. Thanks.

 

Here is the list in 09 bios.

Spoiler

GTX280M/GTX260M/GTS160M were also added in later M570TU bios.

 

Wow that is insanely helpful.
By any chance do you know what specific type (or types) of MXM interface the m570tu will take? Some cards i have seen have a form factor that simply will not fit, but I wonder about the others. the others I have seen look like my old one but have the third 'tab' missing.

 

Mxm 2.1 , Mxm 2.0 .

It also support the 9600M I know cause I've tested it.

 

Blacky still have the good old 57TU?

 

The 4850 works too... The tab you are talking about, HE tab, doesn't matter at all in fact you can use cards with HE tab unplugged on non-HE slots.

The problem here is... the very common misconception that has people saying things like, "9800m GT is MXM 2.1..." or even... "ALL 9800m GT MXM 2.1 will work"

For EVERY one of these cards, there is an MXM 2.1 version that will NOT work for various miscellaneous reasons. There are ES cards around, like the 3600m GFSI is selling with A00 board revision, which wont work. There are final release cards that simply have quirks, commonly will not display on the built in LCD, like the HP 3600m and the MSI 4850.

The 3600m can be fixed with a vBIOS flash, while the 4850 cannot AFAIK.

Technically these particular cards are NOT MXM 2.1 because they do not adhere to the exact specification, but then technically the m570tu is not a standard MXM 2.1 notebook because of various BIOS issues. .Netroller3d is the person who knows much more about 'the why' of this compatibility stuff from his skills, research, and tests, I simply have experience trafficking way too many MXM cards and [ambitiously some would say] testing them on random laptops.

Point is, there is a lot more grey area than we would all like to think. But these cards I'm talking about (other than the specific ones I mentioned) are pretty rare to find. And, if you keep an eye out for detail, be sensitive to the aesthetic qualities of different brands of [near] standard MXM cards, you should be able to figure it out.

Whats nice is it works both ways. For example the 8800m GTS from the HP HDX dragon, crazy weird PCB but is mostly standard and will function fine if you get the heatsink to fit.

The reason for compatibility is usually not the actual hardware but the correlation it has to the vBIOS, if the card can take different more standard vBIOSes, etc.

An extreme example is some Asus cards from the g60. They don't even have proper heatsink mounting, and the PCB is like a puzzle piece. But the MXM pins are not reversed, and either the gtx 260m or GTS 360m gddr5 has an EEPROM with a standard vBIOS. Mark my words some day we will see a MXM 2.1 gts 360m being used on a standard Acer or Clevo notebook.

With some random standalone heatsink? sounds fun.

Needless to say the original heatsink for type III cards wont fit type II cards very well... it was too difficult to rig something on my m860tu with 1 a piece heatsink... I'm out of MXM III cards, lol

 

It took a bit of modding of the original type III heatsink but I've managed to play fine with it in the end. The cooling system is just so awesome that it compensates for the drawbacks of the heat-sink.

And yes, I still have my M570TU and I am not giving up on it, I'm using it every day and it's my main PC. It still plays most games on high settings and works flawlessly. I also got attached to it, too attached to let it go.

 

I like mine as well but the 280 GTX in it fried. First it would stop repsonding in games, so made playing games annoying as all hell with it constantly resetting. Now recently it started showing lines and discoloration when just using windows. So now I have to get a new card but I can't pony up $500~ to replace it right now. At most I can spend $150.

 

It's the vRAM, try to bake it. It might bring it back to life.

 

I did, well the way I found it posted online. didn't break it but didn't fix it either.

 

Necroing this a bit to say my problem is resolved. Got a quadro FX 2700m meant for a HP and worked flawlessly. didn't need to flash it or anything, just needed to put in new drivers to have it work fully.

 

Can you please repost the list, as it does ot display anymore? Since my video card is dead, (can't get past BIOS when it is plugged in), I need to know which cards will work without a flash to the BIOS or vBIOS. Also, is it normal for the backlight to not turn on if there is no video card present? Keep in mind that I cannot display to an external monitor.