Dell Latitude D620 motherboard replacement

[Matthew Renna]

I have a Dell latitude d620 with the intergrated intel gpu. I want to get the motherboard that has the nvidia card. I've located several boards on ebay that seem to be good.

However, I've noticed differences in the boards.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-D620-Nvidia-Laptop-Motherboard-PGA478-R894J-RT932-F923K-XD299/112646109376?epid=98293998&hash=item1a3a3b38c0:g:BFAAAOSwokJaZkO5
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-D620-Nvidia-Laptop-Motherboard-PGA478-R894J-RT932-F923K-XD299/302290509764?epid=74117450&hash=item4661eb1fc4:g:8dMAAOSwSypY-Q6Z

The first motherboard I notice that it has an intel chipset. On the second motherboard, I see that there in an nvidia chipset in the place of the intel chipset. But they're both labled as nvidia boards. So could someone clear this up for me?

 

[captaincharisma]

the 2nd link give no details about the board other then what is in the title so i would avoid that one. NVIDIA hasn't made chipsets for motherbaords in almost a decade so depeing on the versdion of windows you would be using then it may be risky using a bord with an NVIDIA chipset vs an intel chipset.

if they were talking about an nvidia GPU then that would be different

 

[Matthew Renna]

This is an old laptop I'm upgrading for fun. I'm using Windows 7 and XP on it.

 

[Matthew Renna]

I found this board. This has the nvidia gpu I assume? Would I hate to get a bigger heatsink or something?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-GENUINE-Dell-Latitude-D620-System-Motherboard-w-onBoard-nVidia-Video-R894J/131761727396?hash=item1ead9c67a4:g:z-cAAOSwxcRW9HPP

 

[Eximo]

Most D620 did not have a discrete GPU, so if you don't already have one then the heatsink will indeed be inadequate. It likely won't fit properly.

We are coming to a point where Nvidia is dropping support for their old GPUs. Windows XP will leave you stuck with serious limitations, and Windows 7 is a little too much for it. It works, but I can't say the experience is worthwhile. I would go for a Linux install if you are just messing around.

If you want a D620 with a discrete GPU, then just buy one and put your 620 up for sale. Though at this point I can't imagine why someone would purposely buy one. I had one at work in early 2010 and they were already 4 years old at that point.

I find in my computer collecting that anything from 2005 until now is basically just the same stuff. Not really any particular features to write home about. Before that you had a much wider range of vendors and technologies vying for marketshare, and hardware advanced by leaps and bounds redefining what computers could do.

 

[Matthew Renna]

If I were to use the dedicated gpu which is the quadro nvs 110m, how much better would it be than the intel gma 950? Do you think I could play older games with it?

 

[Eximo]

Oddly the performance difference between the two would be minor. That is a very low end Quadro. G72M GPU using DDR (Not DDR2, or GDDR, just plain DDR)

GMA 950 had a rated Pixel rate of 1.6 GPixels/s the quadro a little less at maybe 1.2 GPixel/s . Very rough, there are other factors, but finding common benchmarks for them is challenging to say the least. (I had to extrapolate, no numbers for the particular quadro, but it had a core clock of 300Mhz, as compared to the lowest end G72M consumer GPU at 450Mhz (1.8GPixel/s)

The big difference would be not having to share system memory. Certainly plenty of games that will run on either, but nothing graphically demanding.

As I recall from gaming around that time, you could load some fairly advanced games, but missing some lighting and effects features. (Little white boxes instead of volumetric lighting and all kinds of fun artifacts) Lowish frame rates, but as I recall that is a 1280x800 panel? So not too bad. I'm basing that on my slightly older laptop I had before being issued a D620 at work (Worst performing computer I have ever used on a day to day basis, 2GB of memory, with more than that being demanded by our default business applications, let alone launching job specific software).