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    Dell Inspirion 6400 or E1505 Laptop Video Card Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by goleafsgo, Apr 24, 2007.

  1. goleafsgo

    goleafsgo Newbie

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    Hi, I have a Dell Inspirion 6400 Laptop with a Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950.

    The game I am looking to play requires one of the following: Video card with 32 MB or more memory and one of these chipsets is required: ATI Radeon 7500 (64MB), Radeon 8500 or greater; NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS or greater.

    My first question is wether or not I can actually upgrade my video card in a laptop.

    Second, I have been told I should get a ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 or X1400. Is this true?
     
    goleafsgo, Apr 24, 2007
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  2. madroxinide

    madroxinide Notebook Deity

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    you cant, you have the integrated graphics which is BUILT INTO the motherboard and you are not able to put another video card in. The game you are talking about SHOULD play on the GMA950 quite easily (i think)
     
    madroxinide, Apr 24, 2007
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  3. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Seeing as how it's impossible to upgrade ur graphics, whoever told you that obviously knows nothing about computers. So next time I would avoid asking them any advice, as the first thing out of their mouths should've been "you cannot upgrade".
     
    adinu, Apr 24, 2007
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  4. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The 6400/e1505 can be upgraded, however its very very restrictive. If you have the GMA950, you need a new motherboard. If you have the x1300/x1400/7300, you can interchange within those 3 only, since its modular.
     
    coriolis, Apr 24, 2007
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  5. mr_bots

    mr_bots Notebook Evangelist

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    If they game you want to play runs fine on an Radeon 7500 or Geforce 2 (both old, outdated chips) it'll run fine on the GMA 950, which I believe performs better than both.
     
    mr_bots, Apr 25, 2007
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