Install Nvidia 980M on MSI GX70

I searched around the forum for an answer, but I couldn't find it.
It seems the GT70 series have a Nvidia card, and the GX70 have a AMD card. However, both have a MXM-B 3.0 connector. So my question is: Would a Nvidia 980M work on a GX70 (which had a R9 M290X).

Reason is, because I can get a 980M cheap, but I want to test it to be sure. The 980M is from a MSI GT72.

 

I think that you wont be able to make it work properly, since the signal goes through the APU and there's no such driver (for AMD APU + nGREEDIA GPU). This is based on my guess that the GX series can't work on the dedicated GPU (R9-M290X) alone. If there's such option in the BIOS, it should work.

Anyway, give it a go. If you get it cheap enough, you can always sell it at profit if it doesn't work and hopefully you'll share the result

 

I would not waste your money. The 980M is a great GPU, but the AMD APU will bottleneck it heavily. Even the R9 M290X suffers from the slow APU, a even faster GTX 980M will suffer even more. The GX Series was powered by AMD APU + AMD GPU meanwhile the GT Series was/is powered by Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU.

 

A friend came across this, had to change the platform.

 

AMD GPU was never a bottleneck issue but the AMD CPU had always been on GX60/GX70.
Also, the motherboard may not be able to accept the GPU due to power design difference.