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Tech Talk => Hardware, Tweaking & Networking => Graphics Cards => Topic started by: TriniPCGamer on May 09, 2008, 09:37:54 PM

Title: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: TriniPCGamer on May 09, 2008, 09:37:54 PM

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-graphics-card,5324.html (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-graphics-card,5324.html)

Dis is reely cool. Able to upgrade my video card without having to spent on a whole new video card (assuming the parts are cheap).  :ph34r: wat u'll tink? Is it the way of the future?

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: Arcmanov on May 09, 2008, 10:18:59 PM

Wow.  Nice find.  This is a really cool idea.

Don't know if the graphics chip makers themselves will agree on the 'less money being spent to upgrade' part. :lol:

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 09, 2008, 10:24:12 PM

Nice find indeed. ATI again...you wont find Nvidia putting a feature like this in their cards.

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: Saxito Pau on May 09, 2008, 10:36:41 PM

Asus gets the credit here... I gather they can do it to nvidia and ati

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: Nephilim on May 09, 2008, 10:38:10 PM

beaten to the pucnh...

wasn't intel working on sum similar? like a graphics mobo/gpu/ram thingy?

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 09, 2008, 11:51:03 PM

I wonder hy they didnt choose to do it with an nvidia card....

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: W1nTry on May 11, 2008, 12:46:00 AM

I am almost inclined to side with Capt here. I would guess that it's easier to do it with ATI as they have a very modular design, whereas Nvidia has proven to need special parts coupling GPUs takes more work than Xfire does...

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: Trinitus on May 11, 2008, 09:32:38 PM

hey nvidia is owned by the MAN (chek de all seeing eye, and the Crysis conspiracy) they would rather not go ahead with this unless the y have an opportunity to make more money, but at the end of the day they make damn good cardss, Ati will have to still come reall good to beat that fact.

Title: Re: Upgradeable Graphic Cards! Realy cool
Post by: TrinireturnofGamez on May 13, 2008, 12:59:58 PM

 They depend on MXM module technology like those used in laptop graphics...

 Theoretically it is upgradable , but MXM modules are horribly overpriced compared to their desktop counterparts , and very hard to find .

You could pop in Nvidia graphics if you wanted.