FPD-link question

[Devon_Pearce]

Short back story, I'm being a bit dumb and trying to see how far I can push an old laptop of mine. With that done here's the nitty gritty. After seeing a project on another site, I decided to look into upgrading an old laptop and seeing exactly how far I could push the upgrade. The laptop originally came with a 670m 3GB GPU, and surprisingly I could run vanilla Skyrim in 3D at High settings on it, so not the worst mobile experience for 2012. The thing is the guy told me the limit would be a 9xx series MXM card as the laptop uses the old FPD-link LVDS connector standard for the display, and the latest MXM cards don't support it in favour of the newer eDP standard. For the life of me I cant find ANY documentation on this ANYWHERE in my searches, and it seems a little odd. I know that they were phasing out older standards and going with eDP across the board in all new laptops but removing support like that in a way that would not let the laptop run the card at all seems odd. Can anyone point me in the direction of any documentation on this as it seems like a really interesting read.

 

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