Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Video cards and laptops?

is it possible to swap out video cards on a laptop? because i was thinking about getting a nvidia geforce 8600 and also considering i don't know this is the link to the laptop i have. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Gateway+-+Laptop+/+AMD+Turion%26%23153%3B+II+X2+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+4GB+Memory+/+500+GB+Hard+Drive+-+Velvet+Blue/1250655.p?id=1218242897223&skuId=1250655|||No. All laptop graphics are integrated into the motherboard and cannot be changed. There are VERY few cases where high end laptops have switchable graphics, but the upgraded cards are proprietary only to that model (or series) of laptop, and that idea seems to have been abandoned a few years back. The only way to get a better graphics card is to buy another laptop.|||The GPU in a laptop cannot be upgraded. It is integrated and embedded into the motherboard, not removable or replaceable. You can upgrade the processor, RAM, and hard drive in a laptop, but not the graphics chip. You are stuck with the GPU it came with, period.

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