Where to obtain mobile graphics card upgrade

[faxon]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115681

so i got this laptop for christmas, and while the GPU on it is good enough to do some gaming on, it would be great if it had a faster graphics card. i was looking around online for a place that sells them, but it seems that newegg doesnt sell them anymore, and i cant find a place that does. any ideas? RE5 is only playable on low texture and shadow quality on the GT240M and even just going to a GT250m would be a huge boost (double the SPs), though i was hoping to see what a mobile HD5xxx would cost

 

[Hyperlite]

Extremely unlikely that you'll be able to do something like that. GPU chips are usually soldered into the motherboard.

 

[blanketyblank]

5830 might be your answer. It's supposed to be an external graphics platform using a 5830 card. So as long as your laptop can do pci express you can get some good fps. I think there are older solutions, but you should probably wait for that one.
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about25040.html

 

[waffleironhead]

While a replacement might be available, finding a source is usually a problem. Acer usually uses the MXMII type cards, but who knows exactly what is in yours without a spec sheet and diagrams.

Do an ebay search to nvidia MXM and you will see some available but they are probably older than what you have now.

 

[Fallen Kell]

You also need to make sure that your laptop can power and cool the new card (even if one is available to fit in your laptop). Truthfully, the ONLY laptops that have replaceable video cards are some of the Sager custom-kit laptops, and even then, most of those are limited to replacement of the motherboard, and graphics card as one part/combo (i.e. you need to replace all of them to replace one of them).

This is also the reason why I always buy the laptop with the best graphics card available at the time of my laptop purchase.