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Laptop Video Card Upgrade?
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:10 pm
by chottoED
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?
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 3:04 pm
by nexus_7
nope.
Greg
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:24 pm
by FlyingPenguin
There's not much you can upgrade in a laptop except the HDD, the memory and (sometimes) the CPU.
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:44 pm
by CaterpillarAssassin
Which is why I bought one with a GF4 and paid 1000 more
oh well, its faster than my desktop
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 1:18 am
by ClockerDude
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:02 am
by chottoED
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..
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 8:55 pm
by ShibasScotch
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,...
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:10 pm
by nexus_7
well, my docking station has a pci slot...wonder if I can slap in a r 7500 pci.
Greg