Interchangeable Laptop Graphics Card???

[AdrianB]

Well about 30 minutes ago, I was really bored ....so i decided to have a lookie inside my laptop and was shocked to see what I found...



I opened the back cover and gazed upon the CPU, RAM, fans etc (trying to pass the time) and all of a sudden i see this fat car sitting on the motherboard, it seemed to look like a mini PCI-express car...

Now i thought this was the Wireless LAN card but it couldnt be since it had the copper heat pipe on top of it...



So I unscrewed the screws securing this little bugger and about 15min of manuvering...i managed to get the card out only to be amazed that it had "NVIDIA" written all over it.

I didnt think it was the GPU as they are usually attached to the motherboards in laptops but I couldn't seem to find anything else that looked like the GPU.

So my question to anyone out there is....Is it possible to interchange my GPU with an upgraded one?

I have a MSI GX723 (BRILLIANT LAPTOP BTW)

It has a Nvidia Geforce GT130 512mb dedicated

I was thinking i could swap it with a GPU from the new Gaming Notebooks that have been released like a GTS250 or something since the notebooks are all the same size (by the looks of it)

Any thoughts?

 

[AdrianB]

oh and i only took the pictures after thinking i should post this...so i didnt feel like taking the card out again to show you guys the "NVIDIA" writing

 

[ponder]

It's probably a mobile PCI-E (MXM) card which is upgradeable, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_PCI_Express_Module

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

http://www.mxm-upgrade.com/store.html

But they're really expensive

 

[chris2.0]

Yeah, more than they should be!

I still have a nVidia 6800 and ATi X600 that came out of 2 busted laptops...