Hmmmm... Gateway MX8715, but not so much...
Very odd... I bought a Gateway MX8715. It was spec'd at 1.6 Pentium Dual-Core T2060 (more on that later) and a 943 GML chipset, DDR2 533. I get it home and find that it is a CoreDuo 1.73 t2250 on a 945G Express Chipset with a 950 GMA, DirectX 10 blah blah blah. Upon further research, I find that the 945G supports PCI-E x16. This chipset also supports 667DDR2.
So I am thinking this is a good thing. Gateway tells me that I am crazy and that there is no way that I could have gotten those components in that system, that their specs don't lie.
Hey, I'm not mad, I got more than I planned, yay me. Here is my connundrum. For the life of me, I cannot find a site to buy a GeForce Go 7 Series GPU anywhere. Everything points to lappys that already have them installed. Ebay is no help, they only have ones outfitted for Dell machines.
Questions:
If I get one fitted for a Dell, can it be modified to fit my unit?
Is there a place to get one at all(a la Newegg)?
Here are a few links that I got my info from:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/
This one talks about the 950GMA and how 945G chipset have PCI-E x16 support
http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/showchart.aspx?mmID=22210,22207,145,22209,9000&familyID=7&culture=en-US
Here they all are side by side, the only ones that support dual core CPUs, which I have, also seem to support PCI-E x16. Am I crazy, or do I have some upgrading to do?
http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2007/SonicC/2905906R/2905906Rsp2.shtml
Here is Gateways spec... I wonder how they could be so wrong???
So I am thinking this is a good thing. Gateway tells me that I am crazy and that there is no way that I could have gotten those components in that system, that their specs don't lie.
Hey, I'm not mad, I got more than I planned, yay me. Here is my connundrum. For the life of me, I cannot find a site to buy a GeForce Go 7 Series GPU anywhere. Everything points to lappys that already have them installed. Ebay is no help, they only have ones outfitted for Dell machines.
Questions:
If I get one fitted for a Dell, can it be modified to fit my unit?
Is there a place to get one at all(a la Newegg)?
Here are a few links that I got my info from:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/
This one talks about the 950GMA and how 945G chipset have PCI-E x16 support
http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/showchart.aspx?mmID=22210,22207,145,22209,9000&familyID=7&culture=en-US
Here they all are side by side, the only ones that support dual core CPUs, which I have, also seem to support PCI-E x16. Am I crazy, or do I have some upgrading to do?
http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2007/SonicC/2905906R/2905906Rsp2.shtml
Here is Gateways spec... I wonder how they could be so wrong???
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