Upgrading my notebook's Vidcard?

[Aeremis]

I search and search on google, but all I find is links on how to replace a vidcard or what to look for in a vid card for notebooks. My question is Where can I buy them?! any one know? I have a Acer Aspire 1710 with a geforce fx go5700 which is the only disappointing thing on the notebook. Supposedly it's upgradeable, but my first hurdle would to be finding a place that sells them! =\ I appreciate any tips or leads in this matter.

 

[Cook1]

Actually, first hurdle is finding out what it's upgradable to. Then finding the card.

Usually these boards or ebay are your best options.

 

[Aeremis]

Originally posted by: Cook1
Actually, first hurdle is finding out what it's upgradable to. Then finding the card.

Usually these boards or ebay are your best options.

well it's an 8x AGP vid card as far as I know so I'm limitted to that.

 

[Cook1]

Yeah but some video cards are soldered onto the motherboard itself making it impossible to upgrade.

 

[bearxor]

Odds are, your video processor is not soldered on the board, but is an add-on card.

However, there's even greater odds that it a proprietary connector to the manufacturer and not universal. So you will have to see what kind of video cards they might have offered for your line of laptops, get pictures to make sure they fit, make sure your heating solution will cool it.

The highest you could probably go anyways is a FX5800 if they made that in a mobile chip, TBH, I'm not sure if they did.

PCI Express video cards in laptops are all supposed to have the same physical connector, so should be interchangeable. In theory I should be able to remove my X300 and replace it with a 6800 Go Ultra, if the card fit in the phjysicaly space in the notebook, and if my cooling solution adaquetly cooled it (which it won't).