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Arcane Wizard
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| It's not possible to upgrade a laptop's graphics chipset or video card right? |
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Brazucs
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| It's possible, but only with a video card that is the same size and shape as the previous one you had. Othewise, It'll look funky. |
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DmitriB
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i think you can on alienwares area 51m.
EDIT: to upgrade you have to send it in to alienware though.
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Arcane Wizard
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And does any place sell any graphics cards that fit?
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Brazucs
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It depends which card you currently have on ya toppy. If you don't have any, you gotta buy one that fits. Usually, companies like Dell become evil and make their slots weird so that nothing else fits except the stock card, but other comapnies like HP make less un-universal ones.
P.S. Sorry for editing your post, you just messed up on the coding a bit. I was following your advice:
What a mod should do wrote: Keeping their forum readable. |
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Arcane Wizard
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Yes, I got the message that it has to fit (  ) but are there actually places in existence that sell graphics cards that might possibly fit in a laptop?
I mean, it's all great that they might have room for one, but if they're not sold anywhere one still can't upgrade one's vid card. |
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agility
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| Do you think it's possible to have a video card on a PCI slot? |
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X1011
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Arcane Wizard
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| PCI used to be the way to connect a vid card, now it's just slow compared to AGP. The new PCX is supposed to be faster though, but at the moment there's practically no speed advantage over AGP. |
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| Ah, that's not what I meant. Typo! I meant PCMCIA slot on a laptop. |
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Arcane Wizard
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| There are no video cards for PCMCIA I or PCMCIA II slots, only external devices like CD Drives or HDs. |
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NETWizz
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NO, No.
You get internal AGP cards for laptops. Yes, they are smaller than desktop cards.
You can buy them and replace them. ATI and NVidia make them especially for laptops. It is a bit more chalenging though. |
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Arcane Wizard
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OK, after a bit of searching at Alienware (none of the other stores on NVidia's list seemed to actually sell them) I found this card:
Clickity
That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, right?
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ISUCK
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Arcane Wizard wrote: PCI used to be the way to connect a vid card, now it's just slow compared to AGP. The new PCX is supposed to be faster though, but at the moment there's practically no speed advantage over AGP.
CRAP Crap CRapCrap... I accidentally clicked report once... and then frantically clicked on quote like 20 times 
do you mean pci express? it's supposed to have 4 gb bandwidth i think, but agp8x has 2 gb bandwith... so I think it is faster... which is why now the latest high end cards are switching to pci express from agp |
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Arcane Wizard
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ISUCK wrote: Arcane Wizard wrote: PCI used to be the way to connect a vid card, now it's just slow compared to AGP. The new PCX is supposed to be faster though, but at the moment there's practically no speed advantage over AGP.
CRAP Crap CRapCrap... I accidentally clicked report once... and then frantically clicked on quote like 20 times
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Quote: do you mean pci express? In case you didn't know, PCX is PCI Express, so yes, PCI Express is what I'm talking about.
Quote: it's supposed to have 4 gb bandwidth i think, but agp8x has 2 gb bandwith... so I think it is faster... which is why now the latest high end cards are switching to pci express from agp Doubled AGP 8x (also called AGP 16x) has 4GB bandwith, like PCX, so there's no performance gain at all. |
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