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Hp 8540w gpu mod/upgrade.

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I just bought an HP elite book 8540w for normal laptop purposes, but I was looking around and noticed that the laptop does support mxm interchangeable gpu’s.

 

While I’d love to go around buying all the mxm cards available and testing which ones work, I don’t have that kind of money laying around.

 

So I’m consulting LTT some of the geekiest computer geeks around to see if we can’t brainstorm theoretical solutions out.

 

ive seen a couple videos of a guy upgrading his 8540w with mxm cards and most of them don’t work. I personally think it’s due to power restrictions. 

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This thread seems to shed some light on upgrading the GPU in the 8540w:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/hp-elitebook-8540w-gpu-upgrade.786744/

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