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December 12th, 2014 08:00
NVIDIA Graphics card for XPS M1330
Can anyone tell me for Dell XPS M1330, which(model,specification) NVIDIA Graphics card is compatible. dell is telling that i have to buy entire motherboard but local vendor is telling that they can only replace the NVIDIA card , but I dont know which one is compatible for Dell XPS M1330 motherboard. already replaced 3 motherboard due to nvidia problem.
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ejn63
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December 12th, 2014 09:00
Dell is correct - there is no video card to replace. The video chip is soldered to the mainboard, which must be changed in case of GPU failure.
All of the nVidia GPUs used in the M1330 share the same engineering fault - you're just as likely to see the next board fail. If you really want to keep the system, replace the mainboard with the Intel-video version (you'll need a new heatsink as well). Otherwise, whatever the board would cost to replace would be better spent on a replacement system. Between the age of the system and nVidia's faulty engineering of this line of chips, it's a dead end.
uss88
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December 12th, 2014 10:00
Thanks
uss88
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December 12th, 2014 10:00
I hate the word dell.
ejn63
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December 12th, 2014 13:00
Your anger should be directed at nVidia -- the same thing happened to Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, Acer/Gateway/eMachines, etc. The faulty engineering was not Dell's -- it was nVidia's.
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December 12th, 2014 19:00
Supposedly new M1330 boards are available from a number of people on eBay for about $50. These may have been sourced from Dell, as when my M1530 was repaired under (an extended) warranty several years back, the tech indicated Dell had tlns of boards for both the 1330 and 1530.