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    Upgrade for BF3 Help Please

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Andrew91, Dec 28, 2011.

  1. Andrew91

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    Hey everyone first post here, I have used my laptop for gaming since I bought it in July 2010. I mostly play steam games (TF2,CSS,DOD-S ect) but recently purchased BF3 and found my computer could not play it.

    I know my graphics card (Intel(R) HD) is holding me back and was looking to upgrade to a gtx460m but figured I should get advice from people who know laptops better than I do.

    Anyway here are the specs copied directly from Mycomputer

    Manufacturer Dell
    Model Studio 1749
    Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 450 @ 2.40GHz 2.40GHz
    RAM 4.00 GB
    Windows 7 preminum 64bit operating system

    Any advice on what graphics card(I believe they might be called something different for notebooks?) to get or anything else to run this game on low or medium settings? Any advice is appreacted and just let me know if you need to know something else about my computer.

    Thanks in advance
     
    Andrew91, Dec 28, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    The Studio line does not off MXM cards, so there are no internal upgrades you could do. The 1749 does have 34mm ExpressCard, so you possibly could do eGPU. There was a DGPU motherboard available, but that would require a new motherboard + heatsink.
     
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    Thanks for the response, so basically its more trouble than its worth to upgrade this laptop?
     
    Andrew91, Dec 28, 2011
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    Yep, this is true for most laptops too. When you go with a laptop, you choose to drop upgradeability (there are exceptions) for portability.
     
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    Just curious how much do you think the hardware for this would cost?
     
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    eGPU probably like 250-300, depending on which GPU you use. New Studio mobo + heatsink easily 400+..
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Dec 28, 2011
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