All,
I personally don't see why this would be a problem, but considering some of the things I've had to do on my X83v, I thought I'd ask. I have an X83v with a 9300m GS card, but I have the opportunity to purchase a 9600m GS with 1GB of DDR2. The card came out of a X83VB-X2, and I have the X83v. I ask because I've had some issues with replacing parts of my laptop with replacements from other revisions of the X83, and I've already wasted money on the wrong LCD, wasted time having to update firmware on my DVD, etc... I'm also a little worried about heat. Is the heatsink from the original 9300 going to be enough to cool the 9600?
Doubling the video RAM is very tempting, but not at the expense of damaging something else, or wasting money.
Thanks
I personally don't see why this would be a problem, but considering some of the things I've had to do on my X83v, I thought I'd ask. I have an X83v with a 9300m GS card, but I have the opportunity to purchase a 9600m GS with 1GB of DDR2. The card came out of a X83VB-X2, and I have the X83v. I ask because I've had some issues with replacing parts of my laptop with replacements from other revisions of the X83, and I've already wasted money on the wrong LCD, wasted time having to update firmware on my DVD, etc... I'm also a little worried about heat. Is the heatsink from the original 9300 going to be enough to cool the 9600?
Doubling the video RAM is very tempting, but not at the expense of damaging something else, or wasting money.
Thanks
As is, I'm waiting to get a refund on the screen *should* have fit but doesn't, and I'm waiting on a different model screen that had better fit...
I mean, they're both 45nm, PGA478, I just wonder if the motherboard on the X83 can handle the extra power requirements of the Q9100 (45w instead of 35w, the P9600 is only 25w). Would I have to move to a bigger power supply/battery?
