djsilver666666 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 A friend of mine is trying to upgrade their laptop's graphics card, the need this upgrade because the card they do have doesn't support pixel shader 1.0. I am not quite sure what to look for, but I did pick two cards: Mobility™ Radeon® 9700 from ATI and the GeForce FX Go5700 from Nvidia. But I can't find a place to buy just the graphics card, not a laptop with one. Any suggestions? Link to post Share on other sites
Intratech Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) Not sure how you plan on upgrading the graphics card in a laptop unless it's a dell lappy with a modular video card. Edited January 5, 2007 by Intratech Link to post Share on other sites
djsilver666666 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) It's a HP Pavilion laptop that's a few years old. But I shouldn't definitely figure out if I can upgrade the card, I should have thought of that first. I'll get the exact specs soon. Here is a link to the system information of the laptop: filefloat.com/Matt_laptop_sys_info.nfo If somebody knows a way to lookup if the laptop is capable of upgrading then please tell me how. Edited January 5, 2007 by djsilver666666 Link to post Share on other sites
Intratech Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Highly doubt you can upgrade it. Dell Laptops are the only ones I know of which offer the option to upgrade the video card. Link to post Share on other sites
MR HOOKS Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Highly doubt you can upgrade it. Dell Laptops are the only ones I know of which offer the option to upgrade the video card. Sry bro you will never be able to upgrade that vid card in that lappy.Its settings are locked in bios and the power supply connects directly to psu. Link to post Share on other sites
Intratech Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Sry bro you will never be able to upgrade that vid card in that lappy.Its settings are locked in bios and the power supply connects directly to psu. Huh? the power supply connects directly to psu.So it's not connected to the motherboard and powered components in the system like I originally thought? Link to post Share on other sites
Luis_GT Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 the power supply connects directly to psu. Link to post Share on other sites
MR HOOKS Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Sorry what I mean is,the vid card does not have a 4 or 6 pin connection .Hard wired to psu. Link to post Share on other sites
Intratech Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 To motherboard mate not PSU. Link to post Share on other sites
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