Exchanging ATI Cards...?

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meditate2001 · #1 Post by **meditate2001** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:02 am

hi,
does any1 knows if the ATI cards in the thinkpads are exchangeable ? So that I could swap a 9600 for my 7500 ?
And I saw other notbooks with the ati 9600 but with a native resolution from 1024x768. it seems that just in the ibms the 9600 has the native 1400x1050 resolution. So whats the deal with that ? are this different hardware modells or could you that even change it via bios flash or so ?

thanks,
meditate

T41mbi · #2 Post by **T41mbi** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:24 am

No they are welded onto the motherboard

Sorry

eriqesque · #3 Post by **eriqesque** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:46 am

T41mbi wrote:No they are welded onto the motherboard

Sorry

LOL Well they are soldered
welded is a bit overkill.

plucky duck · #4 Post by **plucky duck** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:25 am

lol. ZAP! ZAP!!

Would be nice if IBM built their GPU like Dell and make them upgradable. But seeing how they're business oriented, that most likely will not happen.

#5 Post by **K. Eng** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:45 am

From what I understand, a socket or slot (like mPCI) takes up considerably more space than a dirrect solder. Now I have seen PCIe expansion cards, and they are about half the size of mPCI cards, so it may be possible to fit a PCIe slot for video cards in future generation T series. I wouldn't count on it though.

Skywing · #6 Post by **Skywing** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:14 am

K. Eng wrote:From what I understand, a socket or slot (like mPCI) takes up considerably more space than a dirrect solder. Now I have seen PCIe expansion cards, and they are about half the size of mPCI cards, so it may be possible to fit a PCIe slot for video cards in future generation T series. I wouldn't count on it though.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjE1

ATI is also developing their own module for that kind of interface

Exchanging ATI Cards...?

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