Laptop Video Card Upgrade?

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:10 pm

Not too familiar of what's under the hood of laptops..
I've a VAIO w/ a Radeon Mobility, is there any way for me to change the vid card altogether a la PC upgrade style?

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 3:04 pm

nope.

Greg

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:24 pm

There's not much you can upgrade in a laptop except the HDD, the memory and (sometimes) the CPU.

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:44 pm

Which is why I bought one with a GF4 and paid 1000 more

oh well, its faster than my desktop

ClockerDude · Post by **ClockerDude** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 1:18 am

Sorry, but its impossible. Most, if not all laptops have the GPU soldered on. Even if you were lucky enough to find one with an upgradable GPU, i'd be willing to bet it would probably be a proprietry thing.

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:02 am

Welp, it turns out that pretty much most laptops are not upgradeable...
however, the newer Dell 8000 series laptops seem to be upgradeable... <sigh> Dude, I should've gotten a Dell..

ShibasScotch · Post by **ShibasScotch** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 8:55 pm

Well if you are gonna scrap the laptop, at least try to change it... i have seen it done b4, its just HARD AS HELL to get parts for them,...

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:10 pm

well, my docking station has a pci slot...wonder if I can slap in a r 7500 pci.

Greg