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Upgrading Graphics card for gaming on laptop

  • 11-12-2011 9:21pm
    #1
    JamesOHalloran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    Pretty much as the title suggests, just wondering what you guys can tell me about it, whether to just buy one willy nilly, or if there are certain things i should buy with it?

    I have a Lenovo A550
    Processor: Pentium Dual Core CPU T4500 @ 2.3 GHz

    RAM: 3GB

    32 Bit OS

    Graphics Card: Mobile Intel 4 series Express Chipset family


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  • #2
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    JamesOHalloran wrote: »
    Pretty much as the title suggests, just wondering what you guys can tell me about it, whether to just buy one willy nilly, or if there are certain things i should buy with it?

    I have a Lenovo A550
    Processor: Pentium Dual Core CPU T4500 @ 2.3 GHz

    RAM: 3GB

    32 Bit OS

    Graphics Card: Mobile Intel 4 series Express Chipset family
    They're integrated graphics on to the chip, it's not an actual Card. I doubt you'll be able to buy one at all.

    You'll need to find out what you mother board is and if it has a slot available for some type of GPU Card.


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Hal Emmerich wrote: »
    They're integrated graphics on to the chip, it's not an actual Card. I doubt you'll be able to buy one at all.

    You'll need to find out what you mother board is and if it has a slot available for some type of GPU Card.

    +1 on this.

    And I hate to say it, but you can be 95% sure that, that laptop will not allow you to upgrade the graphics card.

    The ability to upgrade laptops GPU is rare.


  • #4
    JamesOHalloran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭JamesOHalloran


    Balls


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