Replacing disk drive with graphics card

somerandomguy30 · Jun 9, 2013

I own a Samsung r580h. It currently has an nVidia 310m with CUDA. Presently, my disk drive is broken, and I've already gone to the trouble of getting an external disk drive. I wanted to know if it was possible to remove the broken disk drive and install a better graphics card in the disk drive slot. If so, what would be a good graphics cad to use?

DarkSable · Jun 9, 2013

Install a better graphics card in the disk drive slot...?

How are you going to connect a graphics card to a sata controller, exactly?

No, this can't be done, I'm sorry to tell you.

manofchalk · Jun 9, 2013

A PCI-2 8x slot is considered the minimum you need to not bottleneck a graphics card (on the desktop anyway, not sure about laptop GPU's). Based on some quick research, that's a total bandwidth of ~50Gb/s. Your SATA port, in the best possible circumstance can only offer 6Gb/s.

Thats ignoring the fact that its outright incompatible.
It cant be done, and if you somehow magicked it into working, you would get pretty poor performance.

somerandomguy30 · Jun 10, 2013

The disk drive slot is just for space purposes. I would still connect it to PCI. Sorry for the confusion.

DarkSable · Jun 10, 2013

somerandomguy30 :

You've got a laptop.

How do you expect to attach a graphics card (which wouldn't fit in a disk drive slot) to a PCI slot (which you don't have anyways) using what (nonexistent) adapter?

somerandomguy30 · Jun 10, 2013

Not a big graphics card, one small enough to fit in the slot, but better then the one I have now. And my computer does have PCI Slots, PCI-E 2.0, because that I what my current graphics card uses.

DarkSable · Jun 10, 2013

It connects through PCIe 2.0, yes, but the graphics card is soldered to the motherboard - it does not have an actual PCIe slot like a desktop would.

Also, you're greatly overestimating the size of a disk drive, I think; what graphics card do you think is small enough to fit in there?

somerandomguy30 · Jun 10, 2013

An nvidia m series graphics card would be small enough, depending on which one I would buy.

DarkSable · Jun 10, 2013

Do you have a place where you can buy a mobile graphics card?

It doesn't matter anyways, because the graphics card is soldered to the motherboard, I'm just curious - I've never seen them available to the public.

somerandomguy30 · Jun 10, 2013

I don't think they are easily available. I'm not going to try, it would probably end up costing more than buying a new laptop. I'm going to try upgrading my old gateway instead

DarkSable · Jun 10, 2013

That's probably a good idea. Check and see if the case is slimline or not, though, since that will greatly affect what parts you can buy. (How wide is it?)

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