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is this possible?

  • 23-06-2005 7:14pm
    #1
    magick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭


    hey i have a compaq r3000z laptop v happy with it at the mo
    its using a geforece 440 go (64mb) at the mo , the bios wont let me incerese the shared memory size to the card, does anyone know how to unlock this?

    also on another note my gf works for a it company who builds/rebuilds pcs laptops and claims that i could remove the chip of the graphics card and solder on a new one to the laptops board, is this possible?
    thanks


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  • #2
    J-blk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭J-blk


    The GeForce 4 Go is not a "discreet" graphics chipset - it has its' own memory (64MB in your case) and does not use shared system memory. Embedded chipsets like Intel's and SiS's solutions use system memory. As a result, there's no way to add more memory to it. Even if you could, it would make little to no difference - more memory on the graphics card does not equal better performance. A low level GPU simply cannot use large amount of memory anyway.

    As for replacing the graphics card, I doubt this is possible - the laptop is simply not designed for this. Exceptions are certain lappies from Alienware, as well as the original XPS from DELL, that had user-replacable cards. Even if they could solder on a different chip for you there, there's no guarantee the mobo will be able to detect it. I'd be inclined to say this is fiction.... And of course, if you're under any kind of warranty on that lappy, you would kiss it goodbye with something like that...


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