I have an Asus X555LAB laptop that has a faulty motherboard. When it is unplugged from AC power the screen flickers to the point of the laptop being unusable so I started to look in the market for a new laptop. But then something popped into my head. it would be significantly cheaper to buy a replacement motherboard from the internet. But something else also popped into my head... I remember that a few years ago I saw a page with my laptop and advertised that it could have an MX940 GPU in it and this would be miles better than the intergraded HD5500 Graphics that the laptop came with. the only problem is that the laptop I was looking at was not the X555LAB it was the X555LB.
Before I continue to let me just say that there is an X555LA out there and those use the older Haswell CPUs mine is indeed an X555LAB with the Broadwell i7. My PC seems to be another variant off of the X555LA.
Looking at the pictures of each motherboard they look ridiculously similar in fact I am rather pressed to find a single difference between the two. Looking at pictures of my own laptop motherboard I am able to see what seems like the memory solder points for the GPU. Which has me seriously considering buying the motherboard and heatsink for the X555LB and putting it on my laptop? I know this seems incredibly stupid but if you look at the pictures you will see exactly what I am talking about.
Before I continue to let me just say that there is an X555LA out there and those use the older Haswell CPUs mine is indeed an X555LAB with the Broadwell i7. My PC seems to be another variant off of the X555LA.
Looking at the pictures of each motherboard they look ridiculously similar in fact I am rather pressed to find a single difference between the two. Looking at pictures of my own laptop motherboard I am able to see what seems like the memory solder points for the GPU. Which has me seriously considering buying the motherboard and heatsink for the X555LB and putting it on my laptop? I know this seems incredibly stupid but if you look at the pictures you will see exactly what I am talking about.