Laptop Graphics Cards

[Mr_Tourette]

Hi,

I have just bought a decent multimedia laptop, but was looking to upgrade the onboard graphics to something a bit meatier.

Are there any decent laptop graphics cards out there?

Ta

 

[Avalon]

Short answer is probably not.

The longer answer is if your laptop has a standard physical slot to take one then yes however for the likes of Dell they had a habit of using higher power PSU's on units with dedicated dedicated video cards but not always using the same PSU's on the lower end stuff, not to mention the cooling issues. I've reworked a few Inspirons with better cards but the short answer is that if your laptop came with on-board video and an upgrade was not offered at the point of system configuration then you've got no chance. If you got an off the shelf box from somewhere then forget it.

 

[Wayne~]

As above as far as I know 9.9 out of 10 laptops your stuck with what you got Im afraid

 

[ACESHIGH]

Yep, most laptops cannot have the graphics card upgraded unfortunately. There are a few with PCIE graphics that can be, but usually their the high end ones.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Aye theres a small percentage of units that have whats called an MXM graphics card, typically medium-high end ones, however even amongst these MXM laptops there are issues such as several standards, power draw etc, so unless the external graphics card boxes ever become reality in a useable format, you're stuck with what you've got.

 

[AtreuS]

And as usual it seem that most people ask this question at the wrong time, ie once they have already bought one!