Hey everyone! i just won on ebay an ASUS G1S-X1 with a broken lcd. The seller a huge clearing house for busted pc stuff, listed as local pickup only on mistake so the auction only hit $400. So if i buy the lcd which i can get for around $225 shipped the WSXGA+ lcd i could have myself a nice newer laptop.
However my original reason for purchasing was to try and retrofit the 8600GT to my A8JS. I'm somewhat confident for a few reasons, first the G1S-X1 is exactly the same as the G1S-AK### laptop that has a nVidia 7700 in it, that 7700 is the same card as used in our A8JS. So those two G1Ss are almost identical except for their GPU's and a few other system specs but they look like theyre physically the same. I'm almost positive the reverse-mxm spec lines up and the gpu heatsink is lined up right over the GPU, same with the screw mounts so physically it works.
Now heres where it gets tricky, the 3dcard bios is not saved on the card its saved in the system (im not sure if the 8600 is the same but i bet it is) and no one here seems able to seperate the two. However the Mac community is, they have successfully edited the system bios and extracted the 7700's bios from the system modified the 3dcard settings and re-applied the 3dcard bios to the system bios. One of them is helping me now to set an overclock to my 7700. Hes just as interested in an upgrade solution as i am, our A8JS have plenty strong upgradeable processors and the GPU is very strong as well but if we pop an 8600 in it that really increases its longevity in terms of gaming power.
Anyways im going to try it, ive got nothing to lose i'll keep everyone posted.
However my original reason for purchasing was to try and retrofit the 8600GT to my A8JS. I'm somewhat confident for a few reasons, first the G1S-X1 is exactly the same as the G1S-AK### laptop that has a nVidia 7700 in it, that 7700 is the same card as used in our A8JS. So those two G1Ss are almost identical except for their GPU's and a few other system specs but they look like theyre physically the same. I'm almost positive the reverse-mxm spec lines up and the gpu heatsink is lined up right over the GPU, same with the screw mounts so physically it works.
Now heres where it gets tricky, the 3dcard bios is not saved on the card its saved in the system (im not sure if the 8600 is the same but i bet it is) and no one here seems able to seperate the two. However the Mac community is, they have successfully edited the system bios and extracted the 7700's bios from the system modified the 3dcard settings and re-applied the 3dcard bios to the system bios. One of them is helping me now to set an overclock to my 7700. Hes just as interested in an upgrade solution as i am, our A8JS have plenty strong upgradeable processors and the GPU is very strong as well but if we pop an 8600 in it that really increases its longevity in terms of gaming power.
Anyways im going to try it, ive got nothing to lose i'll keep everyone posted.
