Acer MXM Models and Cards

[triturbo]

I'm not stupid enough to flash ATI with nVidia. And which vBIOS did you want to see. The ATI or nVidia?

Sorry, didn't want to insult you.

Here's both.

Thanks. I'll check something and I'll let you know what I have in my mind

[EchoShade]

Sorry, didn't want to insult you.



Thanks. I'll check something and I'll let you know what I have in my mind

Sorry, I get misunderstood often. People assume I'm disgruntled or something when I don't use smileys. But I'll be looking forward to what you have in mind. I would really like this card to work. Still have a thing troubling me though. It can play Crysis on high with 8x AA or very high with no AA fluidly but after about 10 minutes, I got artifacting that ended as soon as I shut off the game. VMT also gave negative results. I'm wondering if this is part of the defective batch I've heard about. I'll try installing the new drivers they released recently and see how that goes.

[kisetsu17]

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but seems here Undertaxxx has finally found a DDR3, MXM-II version of the HD 4650, and even an Acer one--apparently coming from an Aspire 6930G. I've been googling which country wields a 6930G with an HD 4650 but as of yet my googling skills have yet to impress me.

Can anyone confirm this? I'm getting giddy. lawl

[Kallogan]

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but seems here Undertaxxx has finally found a DDR3, MXM-II version of the HD 4650, and even an Acer one--apparently coming from an Aspire 6930G. I've been googling which country wields a 6930G with an HD 4650 but as of yet my googling skills have yet to impress me.

Can anyone confirm this? I'm getting giddy. lawl

Yeah i'm skeptic too. Didn't manage to find a 6930G with a 4650 on-board. Could it be a replacement card provided by Acer for these notebooks ???

Cause the 6930G-944G32BN concerned is originally sold with a 9600M GT on-board.

[TehSuigi]

The 6930G was indeed sold with a Radeon HD 4650, but the 1GB DDR2 version (that's where I found it, remember?)
That, and the part number on this page correlate to the regular DDR2 1GB version.

[Kallogan]

Yep there must be a mistake. i bet it's the DDR2 version and the website made an error.

[triturbo]

But I'll be looking forward to what you have in mind.

I just swapped the vendor of my GPU to MSI and it still shows Acer in GPU-Z (and still boots in case you wondered). Funny thing is that according RBE, my default vBIOS is ATi, not an Acer one. I really don't know why GPU-Z shows Acer as a vendor all the time. You can give it a go though, maybe it would work, but I wont hold my breath.

I'm wondering if this is part of the defective batch I've heard about. I'll try installing the new drivers they released recently and see how that goes.

I guess it is, exactly same problems has had half of the EX625's owners.

[EchoShade]

I just swapped the vendor of my GPU to MSI and it still shows Acer in GPU-Z (and still boots in case you wondered). Funny thing is that according RBE, my default vBIOS is ATi, not an Acer one. I really don't know why GPU-Z shows Acer as a vendor all the time. You can give it a go though, maybe it would work, but I wont hold my breath.

I guess it is, exactly same problems has had half of the EX625's owners.

Wait, I'm confused... What did you do again? Also, Crysis will run on high with the new drivers but what perks my curiosity is that playing Crysis on very high cause really wonky graphics like square clouds or black skies or the polygon reference and placement lines to pop up. Should I consider this normal? And should I consider just one to zero errors from vmt to be good since it states that the 4670 is not compatible with the test?

[kisetsu17]

The 6930G was indeed sold with a Radeon HD 4650, but the 1GB DDR2 version (that's where I found it, remember?)
That, and the part number on this page correlate to the regular DDR2 1GB version.

The original DDR2 4650 (which I bookmarked in hopes to have one in the future lol) was removed from the site, and then this popped up. Hmm.

Can't we like contact ATi themselves or something and ask if they do supply MXM-II format DDR3 cards of this series to Acer? Or am I thinking wrongly?

[ragelord]

Hi there people!

I'm quite new to the forum but i have a question and i hope that you can help me a bit.

I have an Acer Aspire6930ZG with Ati hd 4570 in it. Can I plug in a Nvidia GPU like 9600gt or I will have to update the bios ?

I had pretty much difficulties finding any driver for my GPU ... There is nothing mentioned about this model on acer.com and absolutely nothing about a model of 6930 family with this video card as well ...

Thank you in advance!

I would appreciate if someone has any information about modifications/upgrades on a laptop like mine.

Other specs:
Intel T4200 @ 2,0 Ghz
4 GB Ram @ 667 Mhz