G530 Motherboard/CPU Upgrades?

Hi all,
My girlfriend has a G530 that I just had to pull apart after it took a little bit of a swim. Aside from needing a keyboard nothing was damaged, but I noticed something interesting while I had it apart: Next to the northbridge there are what appear to be solder pads for a discrete GPU and RAM for it. Thing is, I can't seem to find a single system that has a board with the same layout as the G530's that has a discrete GPU on it. Does anyone know if any other systems got this board with a GPU on it? If I can find a board with one I'd be tempted to throw it in the G530 just to say that I did.
Also, has anyone tried throwing something like a T9300 or T8300 in one of these things? The T4200 + Intel IGP + painfully slow hard drive conspire to give me an eye twitch whenever I get stuck using the darn thing and I'd kinda like to liven it up a bit.
Thanks.
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Hi
IMHO dual processor upgrades have advantages and disadvantages.
On the one hand OS X does make good use of dual processors and most apps these days seem to be multithreaded to some degree. I guess this will only improve in the future as more machines are released with dual processors and/or dual cores and more software is produced to take advantage of them. I guess the main exception is games, some of which only make use of one processor, but then if you're running more than one app at a time, you'll still be using both processors to some degree.
On the other hand, dual processor upgrades are more expensive, both processors share the same relatively slow 133MHz system bus and in general are 'only' 40% faster than a single processor running at the same speed, they generate more heat and most 7447 based upgrades are overclocked, so two overclocked processors are perhaps going to be more problematical.
I agree with PB PM in that a single 1.4GHz 7455 based upgrade (with level 3 cache) would give you the most bang for the buck. IMHO the 466MHz Digital Audio G4 is the computer likely to gain the most from a processor upgrade, as it was the slowest G4 produced to still have a 133MHz bus and x4 AGP slot etc.

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