MSI shows off "upgradable" graphic card

Darksaber · Jun 9, 2006

The card actually has two GeForce 7 series GPUs on NVIDIAs portable MXM standard plugged into either side of the graphic card connected with SLI. Both sides are cooled by passive heat sinks and the card itself is just as big as a normal graphic card. The chip runs at 400MHz and the memory at 450MHz. No mention of which GeForce 7 it was equipped with, but considering its passively cooled my guess i a 7600 based one at most.

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warup89 · Jun 9, 2006

still laptop video cards , are worse than desktop ones.

Dippyskoodlez · Jun 9, 2006

warup89 said:
still laptop video cards , are worse than desktop ones.

Nah. They are just fine.. bet it overclocks better

Upgradable upgrade cards? :wtf:

GSG-9 · Jun 10, 2006

So what exactly is upgradable about it? the GPU's the ram or what? The cooling? :laugh:

Darksaber · Jun 10, 2006

GSG-9 said:
So what exactly is upgradable about it? the GPU's the ram or what? The cooling?

the MXM modules are PCIe based parts, which have the same size, mounting holes and such, no matter what GPU/memory configuration. That makes them interchangable -> upgradable notebook graphics.

So its the entire graphic card (see the green square under the heatsink): memory and GPU.

cheers
DS

GSG-9 · Jun 10, 2006

Thats kind of interesting, I asked for somthing like this a few years ago, but I don't have the money to throw at my computer that I used to (Collage).

russianboy · Aug 23, 2007

what an old thread

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MSI shows off "upgradable" graphic card

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