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    whatever happened to the m860tu and the ATI hd3870?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by gerryf19, Dec 22, 2008.

  1. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    When this laptop first came out, a choice was the ati card--then it seemed in low availability and so everyone who ordered it with the cheaper card got a free upgrade (lucky buggers).

    But it was kind of intimated at the time the ati card would someday appear on this model--but it never has. It certainly isn't a thermal issue, since it likely runs cooler than the nvidia gpu, so what happened?
     
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    might be the layout of the card - placement of screw holes, chip and memory banks. Clevo would probably need to design a second heatsink specifically for this one card.

    could also be MXM slot incompatibility, or even a space problem - the card might be too large to fit in the m860tu.
     
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  3. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    When the 3870 was too buggy to make the launch of the M860TU, Clevo dropped it from the lineup. It seems that the company eventually decided to stick with the Nvidia chips.

    It makes sense to me, since there isn't enough of a performance gap between the 9800M GTS and Radeon 3870 to justify offering both.
     
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