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    [HELP] Sony Vaio VGN-AW290J Graphic card upgrade?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by alperenel, Feb 2, 2011.

  1. alperenel

    alperenel Newbie

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    As i mentiont is there a way to upgrade my graphic card? It is Nvidia 9600M GT

    Here is the lshw output:

    Code: 
    *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: G96 [GeForce 9600M GT]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                resources: irq:16 memory:d2000000-d2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:d3000000-d307ffff
     
    alperenel, Feb 2, 2011
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  2. alperenel

    alperenel Newbie

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    anyone can help?
     
    alperenel, Feb 3, 2011
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  3. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    99% of laptops have soldiered in (non removable) video cards. Yours is one of the 99%. So no, you can't upgrade the video card.
     
    Nick, Feb 3, 2011
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  4. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Correct, "upgrading" would be changing out the motherboard, if Sony had the same model with a GPU upgrade. Not recommended.

    If you wish to have a laptop with a upgradable GPU, look to ASUS/Sager/Alienware (new) or that list and Acer/certain Dells (used)
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 3, 2011
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  5. alperenel

    alperenel Newbie

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    thank you tsunade-sama :D
     
    alperenel, Feb 3, 2011
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  6. icecoolvickey

    icecoolvickey Notebook Enthusiast

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    M planning to get an asus n53 sv. Is the graphics card on it upgradable?
     
    icecoolvickey, Feb 4, 2011
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  7. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    No 10Char.
     
    Nick, Feb 6, 2011
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  8. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    the only time your going to see upgradeable graphics is when your spending top dollar for a high end workstation or gaming grade laptop
     
    Texanman, Feb 6, 2011
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  9. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Correct but you don't gotta spend top dollar for a laptop with upgradable graphics. You can pick up a used ASUS G50VT for like...300 dollars on Fleabay. And not all mobile workstations have upgradable graphics just most of 'em.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 6, 2011
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