So we know that you can order mobility GPU off mxm-upgrades
Does anybody know that i can remove the gt555m and fit a better card?
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The GPU is soldered onto the MOBO, therefore no GPU upgrades.
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does a m17x have removable gpu?
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The gpu's in most gaming laptops, m15/17/18x, asus g series, msi, are actual pci cards. They have their own dedicated fan, and require huge amounts of room to operate. They are fully modular, in the sense that they can be physically replaced and upgraded with a different mobile pci card, though that doesn't guarantee that it'll work.
The m14x, because of its small frame and power output, has a graphics chip, not a card, directly soldered on the motherboard along with its memory, with a heatsink over it. Unfortunately, it is not removable, and even if it was, it doesnt have a modular design, it's custom built for the m14x, the most you could have done is replace it with the same gpu, but of course, that isn't the case, it's not user removable.
Mobile pci cards, also called mxm cards, look like this. (This is not what the m14x has, instead it takes the individual components and strategically places them for a smaller overall design and to share the same fan as the cpu)
http://i01.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/371753279/Nvidia_MXM_II_Graphics_Video_Card_GeForce.jpg -
will a next refresh have a better integrated card?
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Well currently, there is only the nvidia 500 series, probably would have to wait for the 600 or next sucessor gpu's. But for the current lineup, they probably wont be able to fit anything better into it. It's not a bad card for the computer its in.
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everythingsablur Notebook Evangelist
The next refresh shouldn't happen until there is new technology to even refresh the laptop with. That would likely be when Ivy Bridge and a new line of GPUs is released. Since the Nvidia 500 series and the AMD 6000 series GPUs only came out within the last couple months, and Ivy Bridge isn't expected in volume realistically until Q1 2012, you probably aren't looking at an R2 model until next spring.
Removable GPU?
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Mobius 1, Jul 23, 2011.