Upgrading Video Card for Notebook

[Mik3y]

Hey you guys, my friend is looking to upgrade the video card in his notebook so he can play HL2. Do you guys know of any sites where he could check out and probably order from? thanks. right now, he just has a geforce go 440, which is pretty much a :thumbsdown:.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Most if not all laptops have integrated graphics if they were made pretty much before this year. I think the Geforce "Go" brand is the same way. I might be wrong, but if it is indeed an integrated card, then you won't be able to upgrade it. :\

 

[Mik3y]

its not entegrated. i'm just wondering where i can buy the notebook gfx cards.

 

[apoppin]

How about a little details or do you prefer "guesses"?
:roll:

What brand of notebook?

MOST notebooks (99%) are NOT GPU upgradeable

 

[Mik3y]

it's a comaq, the newest model.

 

[Rage187]

good question

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
it's a comaq, the newest model.

Comaq?

WHAT model?

They (probably) make more than 1.

(next, i'm gonna suggest you search their website)

and i am gonna BET it is NOT upgradable (b4 i find out).

 

[integramodder]

Guess he figured out it wasnt upgradable....



My girl has been bugging me. She got a laptop about a month ago, its a Toshiba M35X-S349. Im pretty sure its an integrated Intel card, so I'm pretty sure shes screwed. I just need to have a few other people verify this so she can stop bitching about it.

 

[integramodder]

ttt

 

[Matthias99]

If it has Intel "Extreme" Graphics, no, you cannot upgrade it. The only ones that have any shot of having an upgrade are models with the latest GeForceGo cards (or, theoretically, anything using MXM or AXOIM-spec PCIe graphics, but I'm not sure if anything on the market is doing so yet).

 

[Gentle]

integramodder,

I can't get you a link (I think) because of some kind of embedded session ID...

Go to the Toshiba website, navigate to their notebook computer support site, and bring up this model's spec sheet.

It lists the graphics as some Intel integrated thing and those are not upgradeable.

Show that to her.

Gentle

 

[integramodder]

Thanks Gentle and Mathias, I know its a regular intel card because thats what the hardware manager said. She went to the site herself and downloaded the pdf that said all the specs about the laptop. Then she read something about some Toshibas lowering the clock speed on the cards to get better battery life. So she said there was a way to change that back to the regular speed. Blah blah blah and here I am. Now I will just show her this thread and let the reality sink in


bite me, you useless, good for nothing bf!