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    Looking to Buy Graphic card!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ckshy, Sep 2, 2009.

  1. ckshy

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    I have the HP Pavillion 1.8 AMD cpu with a pci-e slot open. I'm looking to buy a decent graphics card to handle Left for Dead I/II and other popular games with out frame rate drop or laggyness. If any one knows of a good compatible card for around $150 let me know! :) I currently Have the Radeon 200m which is stock. Also an estimate and good place to get it installed :p Thanks!
     
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You cannot upgrade the graphics card in an HP notebook, or most notebooks for that matter.

    The PCIe slot is actually a mini-PCIe slot meant for WiFi cards. It is not for graphics cards.

    If you want to handle Left for Dead, you need a new computer.
     
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    Read GPU sticky?
     
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    thanks, it's fixed now :)



    yes but that's a lot more expensive. My option is under 50$ without the graphics card.


    what I gave a link to allows either express card slot or miniPCIe or both!
    With the DIY, you can get a 1x link or 2x link or even 4x link.

    while the real Vidock2 is only for express card and is only 1x link untill express card 2.0 is out (then you'll have to buy a new notebook).


    Also with what I gave a link to, you can use any card. while the VIdock2 is limited by the amount of power it can supply.
     
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah and for $150, you aren't going to get anything good until that DIY project is successful.
     
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    I probably won't touch either for another 4-8 months. ("your option" vs Vidock)

    Apparantly it's only a 7% performance decrease. I can't remember where I read it, but if you search Vidock2 reviews in google you should find it.

    Either way, this is much better than a cloud gaming suscription like OnLive IMO.
     
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    not a 7% decrease. people have run tests in the DIY vidock thread to prove that it can be over 80% loss going from 16x to 1x.
    It's really bad with nvidia cards.

    the 7% is probably made up by the vidock people to sell these things.
     
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    Well there is one review out: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=397296

    That's not bad at all, and it's obviously not an 80% decrease over the desktop 4650, but let's wait for more reviews and we'll find out.
     
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    yes there will be minimal performence loss with the 4650 and 4670.
    But when you use more powerfull cards you lose more.
    Also ATI is relativly good with bandwidth, NVIDIA uses more than ATI.
    So the loss for NVIDIA is going to be more.

    By the way, 80% was the loss was when playing microsoft FSX I believe.

    Other games will be different.
     
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