Acer MXM Models and Cards

[niffcreature]

I was going to say, you sound like you've got cooling mods under control... Why don't you just cut a piece of thick copper out with metal shears and thermal tape it to the VRMs?
Works pretty well for me.

Honestly, its relieving to make something like that after trying to retrofit parts from other laptops.

I have been thinking about doing that, but the best idea is probably to desolder the heatpipe from a w870cu heatsink or something for that full cover of copper plating and then mount new heatpipes or the Acer ones to it with thermal glue.
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Does anyone know if the 8935g uses the same motherboard as the 5935g?
If not, what is up with MXM upgrade?
Acer 5935G MXM upgrade

The beginning of this thread links that to the 8935g, and the url say 8935g

Nevermind, found the service guide.
That link is confusing, the 8935g is completely different and does have space for the type B cards.

[MondoJuan]

Hello, I'm waiting one ati 4670 for replace my broken GT240M of my 8735G. Which is better? 4670 or 5730?

Do you looking heatsink of M15x for Ati 5850?

[downloads]

5730 is faster than 4670 mainly because it has 400 unified shaders vs. 320 in 4670. It's also manufactured in lower process 40nm vs. 55nm

[Meaker]

Plus the 5730 given the headroom will tend to clock higher.

As for my guide, he misunderstood what system I had lol.

[mithrandir_martin]

Hi all!

I was wondering if someone can help me.

I have an Acer aspire 5720Z; not sure if 5720 zg. It came with a Nvidia Geforce 8400 GS card with 256 Mb I was really happy untill it creshed

I wanto to buy a new card, I was thinking of Nvidia 9500 GS

Can anyboydy tell me if there has been someone who made this upgrade?
has he told his expereince? a link would be great.

Also trying to find a list o website with the compatibles card for my notebook.
Which cards has been known to work on this notebook?

Any help would be great!!
Thanks in advance!

Martin.

[TehSuigi]

Welcome to the forums, Martin!
If your Acer Aspire 5720Z came with an Nvidia or ATi GPU like the GeForce 8400M GS, then it's a 5720ZG. Woohoo, you can upgrade! If you had the Intel GMA X3000, then you'd have the non-G model without a hope of upgrading.

The 9500M GS is not the most popular upgrade, mostly because it's just a refined 8600M GT. If I were you, I'd take a look at the top post in this topic and review who else has upgraded a 5720G or 5720ZG; as I understand it, the two are similar enough to be interchangeable when it comes to MXM upgrades.

[mithrandir_martin]

Thank you very much for your answer.

This is a new subject for me and I have quite a few questions and concerns. I am taking a rather big chance to buy this card instead of the card my notebook originally came with (8400 Gs) but I think the upgrade worth the try.

I bought a used 9500 GS and I realized that the seller was also ofering almost new ones for only 15 USD more. When I asked him about changing the order he told me that the old card was better

He wrote to me:

"Dear mithrandir_martin,
HI, this is also 9500M GS, under my test G84-626-A2(used) compatibility is better than (G84-625-A2) both 2 can work with alienware M17R1 , but only G84-626-A2 can work with acer 4520G and 4920G SO I think the used one is better for you and condition almost like new, thanks"

As you can see he tell me that the new 9500 GS worked only on the M17R1 but the used one worked also in two other Acer models.

Is this possible???? Have you heard something like this before or it is just to be able to sell the old card??

The seller seems to know what he is talking about and I have to confess I have no clue about it )



Can you tell me if I'll need a Bios upgrade? Is it possible to get an Acer Bios that works like an add on with only the graphic card? Becasuse I think it should be almost imposible to get a Bios with all the same hardware my notebook has....
Where I can find the drivers that could work for this card in the 5720ZG?
Well thank you very much in advance for everything!

Martin.

[BurkeDK]

Successful upgrade of "Acer TravelMate 6593G - MXM-II, HD 3470" with an "Nvidia GeForce 9650M GT 512MB GDDR3" (Nvidia P616, G96-650-C1). Card fitted perfectly, screws etc. also perfectly. Driver problem fixed by adding the card to the latest drivers (268.58) downloaded directly from Nvidia.com. Added the card to "ListDevices.txt" and "nvac.inf". Then I simply ran the setup.exe file. Temps tested using HWMonitor from CPUID. Idle remains on 41-42 degrees Celsius. Highest temps during the 3Dmark06 test was 79 degrees Celsius. 3Dmark06 Score 5793. Tested on WinXP Pro SP3.

[Meaker]

Nice upgrade man.

[shakennstirred]

looking to upgrade the gpu on my 8930g
what are my options and likely prices in £
thanks