Nvidia Quadro FX3600M 512Mb

[Masterdeadly]

Hello guys,

My laptop is beginning to show it's age when running certain games so i've been thinking of upgrading the graphics card. First of all i wanted to see if you guys knew if it would actually fit?

The laptop is this: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-5739G-Notebook.19255.0.html

Current card: Nvidia Geforce GT 240M

The card i'm thinking of putting this into it: Nvidia Quadro FX3600M 512Mb

So what i'm basically asking is, would this be compatible?

 

[andicole0]

Is that acer upgradeable?

Andi.

 

[Masterdeadly]

I don't know, i was hoping someone might on the forums

 

[andicole0]

Can you take the 240M card out?

In general terms a Quadro chipped video card will only support specific applications such as CAD, it's not going to be very good for video or games.

I've seen there may be a 260M upgrade for that laptop.

Andi.

 

[Masterdeadly]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-FX-3600M.8834.0.html

for a £120 upgrade, That shows it can run games a laptop GPU to run crysis at medium is quite amazing I thought.

 

[Masterdeadly]

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd365/jsastra/acerlaptop.jpg

going on that picture you can replace the card

 

[Phatzy]

You could check if that laptop is designed to take a slighty more powerful GPU, Fan and heatsink may not be up to it.

 

[ANN1H1LAT0R]

Oh you've created another thread about the same thing here now have you lol. You could have just kept it all in the one place haha

 

[Mattuk69]

Quadro is more of a openGL software based GPU. You can get better performance from games like UT but most others will perform less.

 

[Voodle]

OK there's one thing you will need to be careful of - the GT240m is a generation later than the FX3600m - the main difference being, they also switched the physical layout of the MXM connector.
The GT240m is probably MXM 3.0 and the FX3600m should be MXM 2.1 (type III/HE) if it's a standard MXM type.
Your laptop looks like it can take an MXM 3.0 type A card which isthe smaller of the two, type B is destop replacement style.
From checking online, your best option appears to be a 4670 which costs around 100, anything more than that and you'd need to hack up the laptop and do custom heatsinks which really isn't worth it imo.

 

[Masterdeadly]

Will I see decent performance increase from the 4670?

 

[Voodle]

Apparently all of about 500 3dmarks in 3dmark 06! so perhaps no
They probably both overclock quite well but they both have 128bit memory buses, which limits them somewhat.

 

[Masterdeadly]

So there's no GPU I could place in my laptop with decent increases