Graphic Card upgrade on a Laptop

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Graphic Card upgrade on a Laptop

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Name: badmagick
Date: October 2, 2005 at 03:31:17 Pacific
Subject: Graphic Card upgrade on a Laptop
OS: Windows XP Home edition
CPU/Ram: 3.0Ghz, 1GB Ram

Comment:

I have an HP pavillion zv5000 laptop. I have an ati graphics card and it shares the video memory with the ram til upto 128MB. But is there ANY way i cud make the card perform better? some games still run slow. or cud i upgrade it somehow?

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Response Number 1

Name: Richard59
Date: October 2, 2005 at 05:21:33 Pacific
Subject: Graphic Card upgrade on a Laptop

Reply: (edit)

If it is integrated in the motherboard then you're out of luck. I don't know for certain but believe with laptops your upgrade options are pretty much limited to ram, and drives. Everything else is integrated.
I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

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Response Number 2

Name: StuartS
Date: October 2, 2005 at 05:37:16 Pacific
Subject: Graphic Card upgrade on a Laptop

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Yes, you are out of luck I am afraid. There are a few laptops that can be upgraded in the video department, but they are expensive.
Laptops are designed as business machines where video performance is not a high priority.
So yes, as Richard says, you a pretty much limited to a bigger hard disk and more memory and what you can plug into the PC Card slots and the USB/Serial/parallel ports.
Stuart

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Response Number 3

Name: badmagick
Date: October 3, 2005 at 00:50:51 Pacific
Subject: Graphic Card upgrade on a Laptop

Reply: (edit)

oh.. so there isnt any exteranal card I could get to boost the video performance? guess i have to look for a new laptop now lol

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