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    XPS L502X where can I buy a new motherboard?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by betita_elfica, Oct 31, 2015.

  1. betita_elfica

    betita_elfica Notebook Enthusiast

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    Your only real options are places like alibaba or eBay.

    Laptop motherboards are never sold as aftermarket parts. They are only sent to the companies that are authorized/partnered to perform repairs, or they are extracted from otherwise defective as-is laptops sold for parts.

    They are unique to each individual laptop model (and even down to the configuration level) that you're not going to find some online store that has a warehouse full of motherboards just waiting for someone to buy them.

    If you found a motherboard at all, you're extremely lucky. Jump on that asap, because you really don't know when another one will come up for sale (if ever).


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    Do you know if it the motherboard is the same for the i5 with a GT524M graphic card like the one with a i7 cpu and a GT540M graphic card version? My motherboard was from the i5 and gt524m BUT I dont know what happens if I buy a motherboard which comes with the GT540m

    Also some motherboards have a white socket and other ones a black socket, very strange :S
     
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