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    Upgrading Nvidia Geforce 7400

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by captainplanet, Jun 21, 2007.

  1. captainplanet

    captainplanet Newbie

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    I have a XPSM1210 Dell Laptop with the aforementioned graphics card, is it possible to upgrade to a more substantial card with DVI out? Or will the cost be completely insane?

    cheers.
     
    captainplanet, Jun 21, 2007
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  2. illmatic2609

    illmatic2609 Notebook Deity

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    I'd actually like to know if you can as well. My brother was going to get an XPS M1210 about 2 weeks ago until I said not to becuase of the weak graphics card and the upcoming Inspirons and M1330.
     
    illmatic2609, Jun 21, 2007
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  3. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Nope, you can't.
     
    coriolis, Jun 21, 2007
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  4. captainplanet

    captainplanet Newbie

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    Could you please tell me why?
     
    captainplanet, Jun 21, 2007
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  5. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The graphics card as well as motherboards used in notebooks are proprietary(custom) in design. Usually the graphics cards are integrated(even ones with dedicated memory) into the motherboard. Dell does somtimes provide proprietary modular graphics in some of their systems. But even in this case you can only upgrade from one dedicated option to another. But since the Go 7400 is the highest end dedicated graphics card offered by Dell for the XPSM1210 there is no other options to upgrade.

    Basically, unless dell decides to upgrade the graphics card specifically for the XPSM1210 you are stuck with what you have.
     
    miner, Jun 21, 2007
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    System64 Windows 7 x64

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    System64, Jun 22, 2007
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