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    Asus XG Station questions.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by plasma., Nov 30, 2008.

  1. plasma.

    plasma. herpyderpy

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    1. Does the XG Station feature desktop or mobile graphics? My vendor states one version having a 9600 GT, but I do not know if he meant 9600GT or forgot the m part in 9600m GT.

    2. Is the card inside upgradeable? Say, to a 9800 GTX Ultra?

    3. How does it connect to a laptop? Expresscard? Or the HDMI port?

    4. The XG Station mentions that it is nVidia SLI capable. Is this true? If it is, would dual 9600 GTs work?
     
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    1) I'm pretty sure it is a desktop card.

    2) Which means it is probably upgradeable, subject to power limitations (so probably not a GTX Ultra).

    3) Expresscard slot. Which means the EC slot is probably bottlenecking even the 9600GT, so something more powerful will probably be useless. HDMI is not used for anything like that...

    4) It might be, I do not know.
     
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  3. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    1) desktop card IIRC.
    2) normal PCIe slot, so it would theoretically be upgradable, depending on the power source, as Greg mentioned.
    3) Expresscard, yeah. which will bottleneck the performance a bit, in turn making...
    4) useless (see 3)).
     
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  4. simonov

    simonov Notebook Consultant

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    that thing kinda sux,I mean : they will have to work on it to make it a good product, preferably BEFORE they throw it on the market grrr
     
    simonov, Dec 1, 2008
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