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    Upgrading MXM-2 Card n Sony Vaio Advice Please

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by stevenlee, Jan 5, 2014.

  1. stevenlee

    stevenlee Newbie

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    I would like to upgrade the video card in my son's sony vaio VGN-FW180E it has the ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 HD I'm looking at the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 1G but it operated at a lower frequency, otherwise it has 4 times the memory and is 128bit

    Does anyone have a better recommendation?

    Also it is running windows 7 64 bit with 4 gig of memory

    I would like to upgrade the card and possibly the memory to get some more life out of it because it has some nice features, well built, blu-ray burner etc.

    thank you
     
    stevenlee, Jan 5, 2014
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  2. sasuke256

    sasuke256 Notebook Deity

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    Is there any hd4670 in mxm 2 ? If yes try to find one, i remember seeing it in an acer lappy :)
     
    sasuke256, Jan 5, 2014
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  3. qweryuiop

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    are you positively sure that the Vaios have an MXM slot? it appears to me that the sony you have uses a soldered on GPU, not MXM 2.0 interface GPU
     
    qweryuiop, Jan 5, 2014
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    Velislide Notebook Guru

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    Velislide, Jan 7, 2014
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