Bet my new card is smaller than yours!

[Meaker10]

6770M

 

[Meaker10]

Got it! Benchmarks clocked at 880/1150 (725/800 stock):

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1134462

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3133407

http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15681824

 

[Gloomy]

but my card has display port

 

[Meaker10]

Yep and mine has interfaces for DVI/HDMI/Display port/LVDS

 

[Zargon]

very neat!

 

[aigomorla]

NOW if gpu makers would give us a BOARD that we can fit that unit into, add our own amount of ram, and then that board into a PCI-E.

Then we wil go into pure customization on gpu's like cpu's.

LOL.. need more ram... add it... need a new core... upgrade it.


No more buying entire new cards each platform...


ahhhhhh.... but for this to happen, id have to go out in a tutu and pray to the gpu gods huhs?

 

[Spikesoldier]

what slot MXM or MXM2?

in b4 rebadge troll

 

[Spikesoldier]

NOW if gpu makers would give us a BOARD that we can fit that unit into, add our own amount of ram, and then that board into a PCI-E.

Then we wil go into pure customization on gpu's like cpu's.

LOL.. need more ram... add it... need a new core... upgrade it.


No more buying entire new cards each platform...


ahhhhhh.... but for this to happen, id have to go out in a tutu and pray to the gpu gods huhs?

good concept, maybe some third party will make it and we will see it as a niche item. but then dram makers have to make special parts for it too, then we would have to worry about VRM standardization or make them interchangeable as well.

today it can be done with MXM slots but GPU makers would have to start putting their performance gpus on those cards. there would have to be a lot of 'support' on your daughterboard to defeat a standard pci-e pcb.

 

[aigomorla]

yeah which is why i said i need to go out and pray to the gpu gods.. lololol...

 

[Meaker10]

what slot MXM or MXM2?

in b4 rebadge troll

The above card is an MXM Gen3 type A card.

The 6770M series are the new whistler core with 480 shaders, a decent improvement on the 5670 based cards (of which none ever shipped with GDDR5 so more like 5570 cards).

 

[Blitzvogel]

Is Whistler a VLIW-4 or 5 like older Radeons? And good luck with the card. Most people don't even know MXM exists, and even if they did, have no idea what kind of trouble it is to match them to a laptop not made for a particular card.

I still have my old Asus G52 machine (in sig), it has no screen and I took it apart a while back for the hell of it after breaking the screen (I should've just repaired it to normal). But the 9800M GS 512 MB in the machine (MXM 3.0 I believe) was and still is a real butt kicker thanks to venerable 'ol G94. I've considered selling the MXM card on ebay (as well as the other parts), but the machine is still extremely useful for basic gaming. It's held back by the P8400 C2D, especially since it can only handle an overclock to about 2.7 GHz at best for a short term before it crashes.

Where'd you get the card BTW? MXM-Upgrade.com?

 

[Meaker10]

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm...olesalers.html

Guy is really nice, communicates well, I was very impressed.

5-way IIRC by the way.

 

[reallyscrued]

NOW if gpu makers would give us a BOARD that we can fit that unit into, add our own amount of ram, and then that board into a PCI-E.

Then we wil go into pure customization on gpu's like cpu's.

LOL.. need more ram... add it... need a new core... upgrade it.


No more buying entire new cards each platform...


ahhhhhh.... but for this to happen, id have to go out in a tutu and pray to the gpu gods huhs?

I've wanted this for years, but as spikesoldier said, it would just complicate things.

The current system is fine. As long as bang for buck around $100-$150 dollars can play every game out there at a decent IQ/framerate, we're winning. I guess we've got 5 year old console technology to thank for that though. (Really not trying to make this a bash console thread, but my last statement very much fits.)

 

[evilspoons]

What the heck products actually support MXM cards? I seem to remember a lot of commotion about them a few years ago and then... nothing.

 

[Seero]

NOW if gpu makers would give us a BOARD that we can fit that unit into, add our own amount of ram, and then that board into a PCI-E.

Then we wil go into pure customization on gpu's like cpu's.

LOL.. need more ram... add it... need a new core... upgrade it.


No more buying entire new cards each platform...


ahhhhhh.... but for this to happen, id have to go out in a tutu and pray to the gpu gods huhs?

That is the reason why we don't have that kind of customization.

 

[Spikesoldier]

What the heck products actually support MXM cards? I seem to remember a lot of commotion about them a few years ago and then... nothing.

nothing at the end user level. used in oem notebooks, all-in-one, or sff pc's.

 

[Blitzvogel]

What the heck products actually support MXM cards? I seem to remember a lot of commotion about them a few years ago and then... nothing.

Most all in ones and laptops with medium end dedicated graphics use some form of MXM, especially if there are multiple models within a given line with different graphics options. MXM makes it much easier and cheaper for an OEM to make many options available, as opposed to having different mobos with different graphics.

 

[Meaker10]

Yep, only acer did not lock my bios down for CPUs or GPUs, so within the thermal limits I can use what I like.

 

[JimmiG]

NOW if gpu makers would give us a BOARD that we can fit that unit into, add our own amount of ram, and then that board into a PCI-E.

Then we wil go into pure customization on gpu's like cpu's.

LOL.. need more ram... add it... need a new core... upgrade it.


No more buying entire new cards each platform...


ahhhhhh.... but for this to happen, id have to go out in a tutu and pray to the gpu gods huhs?

The problem I think is that much of the board also changes between GPU generations. Each generation draws about twice as much power than the previous, for one. New memory standards, new buses, bus widths etc... So you would probably still need to replace the board far too often for that to make sense.

 

[Meaker10]

Another point is that the interference on the GDDR5 pathways plays a large role and introducing a connector would do bad things to maximum clocks.

 

[Modular]

NOW if gpu makers would give us a BOARD that we can fit that unit into, add our own amount of ram, and then that board into a PCI-E.

Then we wil go into pure customization on gpu's like cpu's.

LOL.. need more ram... add it... need a new core... upgrade it.


No more buying entire new cards each platform...


ahhhhhh.... but for this to happen, id have to go out in a tutu and pray to the gpu gods huhs?

You really don't want that to happen. The reality is that they would jack prices up on that so much to keep the margins that they currently get off of stand alone boards. There's no incentive for the board makers to ever do that type of setup.

Not only that, but what about the VRM's and the power supply section of your "card"? There would be no guarantee that it would power every GPU appropriately. So they would probably just tier the "cards" that you add components to similar to how they currently do motherboards. I for one, have no desire for that type of setup.