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    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by mattcheau, May 2, 2012.

  1. mattcheau

    mattcheau Notebook Deity

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    is there something about the 6110's board that prevents using a gt 650m with *gddr5 memory?
     
    mattcheau, May 2, 2012
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    Baenwort Notebook Evangelist

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    The gddr3 is soldered on.

    Other then that it seems to be a sacrifice they made to stay under 90w of power draw as when the CPU is upgraded to a 45w model instead of the ODM versions 35W model the power supply can no longer provide enough juice to run the CPU+GPU at 100% and still charge the battery.

    GDDR5 is much more power hungry then GDDR3 and would have likely forced them to go to a larger size power brick that their market research likely said portable gamers(who are the ones buying a 11.6 instead of 15.6 laptop) would not like to have to carry around.
     
    Baenwort, May 3, 2012
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    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    My guess would be the heat
     
    Karamazovmm, May 3, 2012
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  4. mattcheau

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    they could solder the gddr5 on there just as easy.

    but ahh, makes perfect sense. thank you!

    Sent from my PI39100 using Board Express
     
    mattcheau, May 3, 2012
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    i think the combo of extra heat generated plus requiring a larger brick to match an ultrabook has more than a little bit to do with it. makes the most sense because the 650m with gddr5 is available in more robust models.

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    mattcheau, May 3, 2012
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