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Hi all,I have a MSI-GT60 laptop at home, with a broken GPU. I can't find a spare anywhere for a decent price.

My question is - is it possible to take the laptop parts, build a desktop from them and buy a desktop graphics card?
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There have been so adapters for the RAM, but not worth the trouble - quite clunky and desktop RAM is better for desktops. You're also putting a laptop CPU in a desktop.

External GPU on a laptop generally depends on a very specific laptop configuration *and* a good chunk of change.

The reason for all of this is, as I noted above, is that desktops and laptops are *very* different things. They have very different power needs, portability needs, and different form factors. Generally speaking, most of the parts of a laptop are about as usable for a desktop as the...
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Phillip Corcoran

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Absolutely not. Laptop components & fitting methods are entirely different than those on a desktop PC. Not to mention that laptop motherboards are a different form-factor from desktop motherboards. A laptop board can't be used in a desktop case, the mounting points and standoffs won't match.
 
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No, you'll need a laptop type (mobile) graphics card to fit the motherboard and yes, as a rule they are expensive (when available). Also there is no standardization for the design of a laptop motherboard so a desktop case probably wouldn't work anyway.

I might suggest looking into the possibly of reflowing or reballing the graphics card
 
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So there is no chance in improvising and somehow mounting the motherboard and other parts?
It's just I'd like to somehow reuse those parts, rather than leave them locked up and forgotten somewhere.
 
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Pretty much. Because of the nature of how laptops are constructed, laptop parts simply don't have the same versatility as desktop parts do. It's something you give up by having lower power, small form factors.
 
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Can I atleast reuse the 8GB RAM?
I was hoping to put the i7 CPU to some use.
 
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And one last thought - can I connect a GPU externally? I don't need to carry the laptop around, so I'd just leave it on my work desk with the external GPU somewhere.
 
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There have been so adapters for the RAM, but not worth the trouble - quite clunky and desktop RAM is better for desktops. You're also putting a laptop CPU in a desktop.

External GPU on a laptop generally depends on a very specific laptop configuration *and* a good chunk of change.

The reason for all of this is, as I noted above, is that desktops and laptops are *very* different things. They have very different power needs, portability needs, and different form factors. Generally speaking, most of the parts of a laptop are about as usable for a desktop as the parts of your lawnmower are usable for your car. Gas lawn mowers have internal combustion engines like your car does - but they have very different uses, so it doesn't mean that when your lawn mower breaks, you can start putting pieces of it into your car.
 
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That was a very nice comparison! Thank you :)
I will try my luck with selling the parts on ebay.
 
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