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    Dedicated Graphics Question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jehanzeb, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. jehanzeb

    jehanzeb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Morning all,

    I hope everyone is fine.

    I have a Sony VGN-A517B laptop with dedicated 128MB Graphics card on it. I have read the Mobility guide on this forum which was published in 2006 and according to it, the x600 is the bare minimum for games.

    I am wonder can we in reality upgrade graphics cards on these laptops. I can understand you can't upgrade the integrated ones as they are soldered onto your mobo however, what about dedicated graphics cards?

    I have heard that you can expand them for example the new Area51 from Alliens, they are offering a graphics upgrade if you want to upgrade it.

    So can we do it? if yes then who sells them?

    I am asking because I would like to upgrade mine.

    Many thanks in advance

    Regards

    Jehanzeb
     
    jehanzeb, Aug 14, 2008
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Did you look in the sticky index? Read the second item.

    John
     
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  3. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    You cannot i'm sorry to say, you should look into an external graphics card.
     
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  4. jehanzeb

    jehanzeb Notebook Enthusiast

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    my extreme appologies John, I did search for it however I must have missed this link.

    It is a pity that we cannot change our mobile graphics cards (well some we can however that looks like a hectic job).

    unfortunately even though being a PCIex I cannot change my laptop GPU. It is not listed in the given list.

    Oh well, doesn't matter. I'll buy a new laptop soon.

    Many thanks for your kind and quick replies.

    Regards

    Jehanzeb
     
    jehanzeb, Aug 14, 2008
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