Laptop Video Card

[bob4432]

i have a ibm t42 with the radeon 7500 gpu setup. is there any way i can upgrade the video card for this so i can game on it a bit? i know battery life will suffer, but that is ok. if yes, where would one find a gpu for a laptop?

thanks in advance

 

[DaveSimmons]

It's doubtful, I don't think there were any mini-PCI/AGP/PCI-E slots for laptops until at least the 9xxx era.

Older laptops just had the GPU soldered to the motherboard. Google might prove me wrong for this model though.

Have you considered 2D games? Strategy (turn-based and real-time), adventure, older RPGs like Fallout 1-2, Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate? Maybe a retro FPS with software rendering?

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
It's doubtful, I don't think there were any mini-PCI/AGP/PCI-E slots for laptops until at least the 9xxx era.

Older laptops just had the GPU soldered to the motherboard. Google might prove me wrong for this model though.

Have you considered 2D games? Strategy (turn-based and real-time), adventure, older RPGs like Fallout 1-2, Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate? Maybe a retro FPS with software rendering?

thanks for the info, that is what i was afraid of. i wasn't sure if they just had the 7500 chipset embedded into the m/b or it was removeable. i just play a couple of games - bf2 and coh, both which require some decent gpu power, much more than the 7500 can put out, d@mn should have stepped up to the 9600mobile/go option, oh well