Acer 5532 - Upgradable GFX?

MeatLoaf · 2 Jan 2010 at 17:30

Been looking online and cant seem to get a definate answer telling me if the card is removable or is intergrated on the motherboard as i suspect it may be

My lappy has a HD3200 card intergrated which is suprisingly good as it plays COD2, RC3 and Railroads quite well.

However im after something better if possible. Im wondering if i could change it for a HD3650 as featured in other Acer laptops.

It has a 780G mobo and an X2 CPU.

Nymins · 2 Jan 2010 at 17:34

If the card is integrated to begin with, then unfortunately you can't upgrade it as it won't have an MXM slot.

Quite a lot of Acer laptops are MXM II and can be upgraded providing they have the correct Acer bios on them, but since your laptop's GPU is integrated, then the motherboard wont have an MXM slot.

MeatLoaf · 2 Jan 2010 at 17:49

I think it is but the manual also says it can do crossfireX with a another video card. I'll have to try and find out if this laptop has a MXM slot

Nymins · 2 Jan 2010 at 17:50

Could open it up and see. Looking here though, it doesn't seem to be on the list:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=396320

MeatLoaf · 2 Jan 2010 at 17:52

Nymins said:
Could open it up and see. Looking here though, it doesn't seem to be on the list:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=396320

Yup just been looking at that, this is the laptop in question tho

http://www.acer.co.uk/acer/productv...tx1g.c2att92=122&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=1621985307