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    upgrading my 9800m graphics card in a Clevo D901c

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Fronk, Apr 13, 2011.

  1. Fronk

    Fronk Newbie

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    Dear readers,

    I bought a clevo laptop using a reseller which is now bankrupt.
    Also, my graphics card died.

    Now its still a fairly good laptop and i want to revive it by giving it a new graphics card.

    Can someone help me with places where i can buy graphics cards for laptops ?
    I found one website so far (mxm-upgrade.com) but they only offer a gtx280 for €500,- (i dont have that much money and am satisfied with a cheaper version)

    Please help :)
     
    Fronk, Apr 13, 2011
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  2. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    hi and welcome to nbr
    my m860tu graphics card fried a few weeks ago and was upgraded under warranty to a 260GTX
    280s are now eol so can be hard to find so websites can charge what they like.
    what part of the world are you from. if its america there a few places you could try. american members will have to advise on wheres best as im in the uk.
     
    MrDJ, Apr 13, 2011
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  3. niffcreature

    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    There are some on ebay... MXM 2.1 type HE
     
    niffcreature, Apr 13, 2011
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  4. krabman

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    I had that laptop back when it was the top dog. Nowadays I'm guessing it would take a serious drubbing by a El cheapo from any big box. I'm thinking give it to a grandmother to Facebook and start over, I suspect you will come out ahead. Kudos for keeping alive this long, I have killed two lappies after the death of that one and have one in production now at xoticpc.
     
    krabman, Apr 14, 2011
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  5. niffcreature

    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    Well then you must really really suck at handling laptops. Way to be a human electronics trashcan, because the d901c is an extremely solid machine still capable of competing with the graphics power of the most recent high end single cards.

    And

    ...THE HELL?!?
     
    niffcreature, Apr 14, 2011
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    the fx3700m is good too, ebay there have good price
    but dont know if those can flash & work good as gtx280m........
     
    DGDXGDG, Apr 14, 2011
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  7. kazakore

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    I did want to downgrade my 8800M to something that would run cooler as I use my D901C mainly for music production and never do anything graphics intensive like gaming but found it hard to find anything and nobody really seemed to be able to suggest much that would run cooler (lower TDP.)

    But (back to the point) when looking around at cards for it I found lots and lots of reports of the 8800 and 8900 cards dying after a couple of years, main culprit being dry solder joints. Many people claimed to manage to revive theirs by baking the board (using the oven as a very crude re-flow oven.) Not sure if it's something you'd personally want to risk but thought I'd throw it out there...
     
    kazakore, Apr 14, 2011
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    pkhetan, Apr 14, 2011
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  9. krabman

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    Lol sorry, looked at the specs and realized I had my numbers confused. This one still has some legs and it wasn't my intent to besmirch someone's lappie. Hazard of being old and pathetic. :)
     
    krabman, Apr 16, 2011
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