Laptop Graphics Upgrade

I know that generally you cannot upgrade a laptops graphics card! I am thinking of getting THIS laptop and it has a good graphics card which according to Nvidia's wesite will be direct x10 compsatible but in the future I may want a new graphics card without a new laptop, is it possible with this laptop because it has dedicated memory in the graphics card so i am not entirely sure as for ram and hard drive i believe it can have double the ram and double the hd space I am no expert of laptops so thats why i am asking the specs aren't hugely instructive but ive found another site which says more but i cant find it again! Also if anyone has any other suggestions for laptops my budget being £600 feel free to suggest... obviously I want a good alround laptop which has at least a nvidia geforce 8000 series graphics card

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I highly doubt laptops today are housing their graphics cards/chip in a slot where you can take them out and replace them easily. I think the room is not big enough to house such mechanisms. I think they are just mounted on the main mother board them selves I could be wrong. The only thing I know for sure that you can take out are the memory, hard disk drives, some cd roms. they all got be replaced with the same interface/connection/size, type of device.

Oh yeah another thing too is if they were replaceable then you would see them being sold. i.e Radeon mobile Graphics Card xxx amount of dollars, but you don't so thats probably the case.

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At first i thought: Hell yeh you can slide it out (you might need specialist tools etc..) and put in a new one, but its best to go to a propper dealer to do it for you. Then i read Sonesay and realized hes right, they are integrated methinks. My last laptop had something that slid along inside when you tilted it, slightly worrying lol Then it stopped working so i bought a new one and took the old one apart and spied a heat plate/sink sliding around the motherboard.. I laughed... The reason i tell you this is because the heat plate (the ceramic plate on top of a big chip) Was actually my graphics chip. So its a long way of saying my old laptop had an integrated graphics chip.

However i think with some searching you will find a high spec (and high priced) machine with a separate GFX card. But i expect it will be a specialist thing for high end gaming etc (which not many laptops are built for) and high priced.

Another option is perhaps a PCI graphics card.. You should find a laptop with a PCI slot, the thing is you wont fit the card inside so you would have to find some way of externally mounting the beast and then connecting the monitor to it.. It would be possible for a laptop builder of a high level but i doubt any old bob could do it, i just doubt its impossible.

 

 

 

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As for the laptop it is top notch since the 8000 series Graphics cards from Nvidia are some of the best including the 9000 series. As for your question no it's not replaceable in the sense that you can't remove the graphics card, but you would have to send it to the company and they replace everything. There are some laptop graphics cards that are interchangeable but since laptop graphic cards are integrated its a matter of replacing everything connected to it.

As for RAM and the hard drive you can almost double in size depending on whats available for your laptop, best example would be my laptop I have the option of putting a 200GB hard drive or 320GB hard drive and I am running a 60GB hard drive right now. Of course going to to the laptop's website usually they don't display that info and so you have to call tech support on the phone to find out.

I save that overall the specs are good, not big on Acer computer's though but they are reliable from what I heard. So if this computer is the one you want best thing to do is contact them to send you more information.

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Wow thx that was all really helpful!!! thats what i love about this forum

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Laptop Graphics Upgrade

I have a toshiba satellite x205 s9349 gaming laptop. My computer recently has stopped working. When I power on I get one long beep followed by 2 short beeps which I have found out is a bad graphics card or as toshiba calls it a vga board. When I purchased the computer I was told it had an nvidia geforce8700 gt. I am not a computer tech, but I have taken apart the computer and found that the card is removable and replacable but the card looks to be generic without any nvidia part number or information on it. However, when I called toshiba they gave me a price that was the same as a new motherboard and would not give me a part number model number or any compatibility information for other cards. They called it "their vga board". I guess my question is this. Does anyone know where I can get a new card compatible to my unit other than from toshiba? Does nvidia make model specific cards for different makes and models of computers? Thanks for any help on this issue -reply by kevin

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Laptop Graphics Upgrade

hey guys,

I have a question,coz u all seem to be geniouses at this  ive jst bought a laptop (dell inspiron 15) and I want to change its grapghic card

is it possible?

if it is Please tell me how thnk u

-reply by ahmed

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hello guys,,,,I hope that you can help me with your expertise..

I recently bought Toshiba satellite a355-s6925...It says that it has a graphics card with a memory that equals 1750 MB!...Well of course it's mostly shared thnx to the 4 GB RAM..(the dedicated memory is 128 MB)...My problem is...Why can't I run video ga,es of high specs? I tried to install many games but they all don't work properly..As if the video card memory is insufficient.How can I fix this? for example ...When I installed Gears Of War..It says on its case that is requires graphics card with 512 MB memory...And in my opinion , my card is like the perfect thing to go with...But still...It sucked big time...Didnt run smoothly as I'd anticipated!//Please I'm starting to regret purchasing this crap..Help plzz!

-reply by Redwine :D

 

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