How do I put a mobile graphics card into a desktop PCIe slot?

[elysianflaneur]

I moved my socketed i5 laptop cpu into an embedded miniITX motherboard. Trying to figure out how to do it for the nvidia GT630m graphics card.

How do I fit this into a single PCIe slot?

[BTGbullseye]

You don't. They aren't designed to be compatible, and even if there is an adapter, it'd cost more than outright buying a better GPU.

[Vishera]

6 minutes ago, elysianflaneur said:

I moved my socketed i5 laptop cpu into an embedded miniITX motherboard. Trying to figure out how to do it for the nvidia GT630m graphics card.

How do I fit this into a single PCIe slot?

You will need an adapter,but even if you find an adapter it will cost more than the GPU itself,

but you can get a better PCI-E GPU for that price.

[elysianflaneur]

I understand. Is there anything I can do with it other than selling it? Thank you for your replies by the way.

[BTGbullseye]

Just now, elysianflaneur said:

I understand. Is there anything I can do with it other than selling it? Thank you for your replies by the way.

You could use it in an interesting 3d sculpture... You can also just throw it away, but it's all up to you.

[Vishera]

12 minutes ago, BTGbullseye said:

You could use it in an interesting 3d sculpture... You can also just throw it away, but it's all up to you.

A bare GPU can be an interesting show piece in a PC enthusiast 's room.

[Kilrah]

I actually bought a fairly recent Intel CPU and nVidia GPU just for the lolz recently... had to order tools form a place that sells tools and parts for laptop repair and just threw them in my cart since they were a couple of bucks each

 

 

[BTGbullseye]

9 hours ago, Kilrah said:

I actually bought a fairly recent Intel CPU and nVidia GPU just for the lolz recently... had to order tools form a place that sells tools and parts for laptop repair and just threw them in my cart since they were a couple of bucks each

 

 

So pretty...