just got an M18 9800 mobility vid card - can i fit it in a non dell laptop?

[psykik]

Dell just sent me a 9800 mobilty g/x card for my 9100 laptop. Can this be fitted into a non dell laptop?

Thinking of buying something on ebay to upgrade and resell?

just an idea...

Any thoughts?

 

[boran]

Probably not, it might fit physically, but if the laptop cooling was not designed to handle a 9800 it wont be able to cool it down.

laptops are designed to efficiently cool their hardware, but nothing more.

 

[Justin216]

most likely not. I'd definitely say form factor is the player in that problem.....yeah, but up a machine on eBay, install it, and resale it...people want these cards....I dunno why, since they are such high power req. cards....I personally am looking forward to the ATI X-series notebook cards....supposed to be pretty good

 

[psykik]

what about an alienware or clone?

 

[Justin216]

nope, sorry...those chips are custom fitted for 2 Dell models, the 9100 and XPS...won't fit without resoldering and so on doing heavy mods to the card...

 

[Ruroni]

Is that the 256MB card? Would that fit on any dell, say the 8600; or only the XPS?

 

[Corporate Thug]

i think there 128 mb cards

 

[shabazkilla]

The Mobility Radeon 9800 is a 256meg card. It's an 8 pipeline design based off the X800 line.