Sunday, May 6, 2012

Is an Alienware Area-51 M5550 R3 Gaming Laptops video card upgradeable?

I need to know if I purchase this used laptop, if I can upgrade the graphics card or not. it is an ATI Radeon X1400 128MB card. Most laptops cannot be upgraded, but this is an Alienware. Anybody know? Or better yet, will this card support Starcraft 2 comfortably?|||I believe Alienwares and laptops like that use MXM cards, meaning the card can be removed and replaced, and potentially upgraded. However, it's extremely hard to find the carts other than preinstalled in a laptop, and the price you'll have to pay for them is generally so high you might as well get a new laptop with it preinstalled.|||your graphic card is compatible with "not so demanding" direct x 9 games.

Starcraft 2 is a direct x 9 game...but as you can see its pretty new and its heavy on graphics... i guess you can run it on 20 or 15 fps.

Also i "think" you can change it on the stuff i have read on google. so yea if you get one i recommend

a radeon *8**|||No. It's soldered to the motherboard. Cannot be upgraded.

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