MXM video cards

[Hardcore Games]

My Lenovo P52 has a MXM video card, the smaller A card but I was noticing more recent offerings are larger

Not sure what will fit but it is nice that I can modernize the GPU a tad as the P52 has a 4K LCD on it

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Personally, I wouldnt even care. MXM cards are immensely hard to get unless you pick them up off ebay or aliexpress. Even the older MXM cards sell for silly money because other than pulling them out of old/broken laptops or as refurbs. MXM cards cant be bought via regular retail channels. You'd need to contact a laptop manufacturer and really beg them to sell you one as a one off and 99% of the time the answer is always going to be no unless you know someone who works directly for them who is in the right department that can act as a middleman or facilitate the transaction personally for you.
The MXM slot is for the manufacturers benefit. Not the consumer.


:EDIT:

As for what can fit it - Nvidia Quadro P5000 according to similar laptops... Still not guaranteed to work depending how anal like Dell or HP Lenovo are with locking their machines down

 

[Hardcore Games]

I see that MXM cards are brutally expensive, I was mostly looking in the event the OEM one croaks

 

[damric]

I know an IT that just salvaged a working A3000 mxm last week. He was asking if anyone wanted it, but no one knew what do do with it. If you are interested I can probably coordinate. Or if you rather, just go find "PCSarge" over at extremehw.net and ask him.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I see that MXM cards are brutally expensive, I was mostly looking in the event the OEM one croaks

Worst case scenario roll the dice and search aliexpress for a replacement (they will probably say its new but it will most definitely be a refurb....) or ebay your make and model of laptop in the hopes of finding a faulty one you can scavenge from if you cant find just the MXM card by itself.

 

[Hardcore Games]

I am always making research ideas in case a machine needs service