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    Upgrading the Power Media Dock

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by temagic, Sep 2, 2012.

  1. temagic

    temagic Notebook Consultant

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    Hi there,

    I'll be getting my new sony vaio z3 with pmd tomorrow or the next day, upgrading from the dell xps m1330. I was wondering if anybody knows if the radeon thames xt chip in the pmd is a socketed mxm chip, or if its soldered on the board? Was thinking of doing a diy upgrade...
     
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  2. temagic

    temagic Notebook Consultant

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    ah well, i'll screw the warranty if the dock works and find out anyway. bet it's soldered on though... how big are the two powersupplies, the one for the laptop and the one for the pmd, in watts?

    thanks
     
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    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    I saw inside one briefly. 0 upgradability on the GPU unless your really good at replacing BGA soldered chips and making new ones work.
     
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    temagic Notebook Consultant

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    was as i thought then. Thanks
     
    temagic, Sep 2, 2012
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