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    how to determine whether my GPU is upgradeble?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by draggy, Oct 17, 2005.

  1. draggy

    draggy Newbie

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    hi...

    I have a Acer Aspire 1801 WSM_2.93 using ATI Mobility X600 64MB RAm....... is there anyware to check my GPU is upgradeble?

    Thanks
     
    draggy, Oct 17, 2005
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  2. chriscatt

    chriscatt Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi, yes you can,there is a panel you can remove on the base of the laptop. However I'm not sure which CPU's you can upgrade too.....
    ChrisC
     
    chriscatt, Oct 17, 2005
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  3. tonyy

    tonyy Notebook Consultant

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    Hi draggy,Unfortunately you won't be able to upgrade your graphics card on this model or any model at the moment unless it has MXM technology which is swappable gfx cards but these are only in the most high end notebooks and are very rare.I don't know the specs on your model,but if you want to increase the performance for your gfx card upgrade your ram to 1gb and if you can afford it also upgrade the harddrive to a faster one! then finally, upgrading the drivers is probably the cheapest and quickest way to gain a slight increase in performance,if you look at the ati site the latest 5.10 driver set is available, First you'll need .net framework from MICROSOFT and then the ati modding tool from the DRIVERHEAVEN site then finally catalyst 5.10 driver.Sorry i couldn't give you better news but maybe these suggestions might help you get a bit more from your gfx which isn't a bad card to start with!
     
    tonyy, Oct 17, 2005
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  4. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    No can do, only the latest GPU's can, with the MXM and AXIOM technology, and even now, there are only a few laptops with those modular video cards
     
    coriolis, Oct 17, 2005
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  5. chriscatt

    chriscatt Notebook Evangelist

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    My apologies, I read that as CPU for some silly reason, the other posters are perfectly correct....
    ChrisC
     
    chriscatt, Oct 17, 2005
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