Can a Laptop Graphics Card be installed into a Desktop?

I have a Lenovo Y510P gaming laptop that has two nVidia GTX760M5's, arranged in a SLI configuration. However, just a few days ago, the motherboard died, leaving all these parts to be useless on their own.

I plan to buy a replacement desktop rather than a laptop, but I would use rather the parts from the old laptop in the new desktop than just throw them away. I know the 2.5" HDD and SDD will carry over, and that the DDR3 SODIMM RAM won't, but will either of the GTX760's? I plan to use a GTX970 SC ATX in the new desktop, if it helps any.

Cole M

Nope. Laptop video is usually soldered to the motherboard, and for those laptops with video "modules", those are not compatible with regular desktop computers.

Adrian

You can't remove graphics card from laptop since it's soldered to motherboard during manufacturing process

MaX

Laptop gpus are either soldered directly on to the motherboard, or they come in the MXM format (which are actual graphic cards, but they are small and use MXM interface).

But there's really no way of connecting laptop gpus to a desktop. Msi has shown a prototype pci-e card that allowed you to connect 2 laptop MXM gpus to it called the "MSI Geminium Go" back in 2006. But they never finished/released it. So out of luck then.

Filenotfound

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Fred