Graphics Card Swap Outs

PCs using MS operating systems can just swap out graphics cards. I want to buy the 17" MacBook Pro, but want the ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 instead of the 1600 currently packaged in the system so I can game as well as use it for business.
Question: Can you just swap out the 1600 and replace it with the 1800, or is the proprietary system too inflexible to allow that? A wantabee Mac owner.....

I want to get a 17" macbook pro with an upgraded ATI card, the 1800 or the 1900 - but there is NO WAY TO TALK TO TECHS! It is not a hard switch, bet there is no special requirements as it is just a faster model that fits in the same PCI express slot. I want someone IN THE TECH DEPARTMENT to tell me that the Mac is so propriety that it is totally inflexible to make that adjustment. OR, tell me that the new operating system 17" will have the new 1800 or 1900 ATI card - I will wait to buy then. Otherwise, I will go get the Dell 2010 that has the 1800 already in it (BUT i WILL NOT BE HAPPY ABOUT THE BUY.) By the way - it was your own sales agent at an Apple store that told me the 1600 was a dog compared to the 1800.....

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And then I have started to read related posts and forums. But this time I learned that there are new issues I have to deal with.
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This is copied from another reply I made today. The Mega 180 can drive a TV just fine. But you need to spend alot of time making it work.
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Wrong answer Geek Squid. No, sorry. The video card is soldered to the motherboard and cannot be replaced. The motherboard can be replaced, or the video card can be repaired by a reflow. Geek Squid would have no idea what that is.
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no, no secret aukhadiev
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ip dhcp relay
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Graphic Card swap between G4 and G5

Hope someone can advise me. I have both a g4 (sawtooth) and g5 networked together. About a year ago I upgraded the g4's graphic card to a ATI Radeon 9200 - 128 vram, which is a better card than my g5(GeForce FX 5200- 64 vram). I had thoughts of swapping the cards but can't find the driver for the GeForce FX 5200 card online after I discovering I didn't know where the driver resided on the G5.
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Is my graphics card burned out?

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I was playing a video game on mac today and it kept crashing my computer, so I loaded up bootcamp to play another game and the following happened to me a few times: http://imgur.com/a/FLqf7#0
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I have a 2007 MacBook Pro 17 Inch. Its graphics card died. I want to do a clean install of OS X Mavericks. However, if I do this, screen sharing will go off, and I will be blind during the installation. How can I do a clean install?
If I connnect the hard drive externally, then it will get the wrong drivers during the installation, if I do it via Target Disk Mode, same thing.
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My iq771 is dead. I took it to pc world as it is out of warranty and after a hardware diagnostics test they told me there was a problem with the graphics card either broken or inactive.
I called the hp support line and after great difficultly was given an out of warranty repair service that hp utilise. I explained what had happened and they told me that they had been informed by hp escalation complaints service that they no longer supported the graphics card or screen on the touchsmart iq771. It was irrepairable. They gave me the name of the manager at escalation complaints, Grant Cyster, and after many calls and reassurances that they would call me back, i have yet to hear from them.
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hey hope this gets to you before you trash it.   If the machine powers on and you hear no beeps you are in good shape.
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Which graphics card for G4 MDD and 30" display?

Hi folks,
I would really appreciate any help with this as I am confused by what graphics cards are out there. I have a G4 MDD dual 867, 1.75GB RAM, which currently has an NVIDIA GeForce4MX (32MB VRAM) in its AGP slot and an old ATI card (32MB VRAM) in a PCI slot. Each card is driving a 17" Dell CRT display. Not brilliant for a freelance illustrator but it does the job for now....
I really want to get a 30" Cinema display (I am a scientific illustrator working digitally for print, using Photoshop & Illustrator mainly) but I don't know what graphics card I can get that will work in my Mac (it has 3 free PCI slots, but not PCI Express) and reliably support the 30" display at a suitable resolution. I have been trying to research this but have got stumped by the options. I asked in the London Apple Store but they implied I would be better off getting a whole new Mac... rather not spend quite that much money at the moment.
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Hi Debbie-
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Graphics card and RAM are the two components to upgrade when you're looking to play games. I checked the specs on your computer - you have a PCI Express x16 slot, which means you can use any of the most recent graphics cards in this particular system. You also may want to pick up some DDR2 RAM to upgrade the memory. And depending on which graphics card you upgrade to, you may also need a new power supply as well. Most Best Buy stores carry all of those components, so head to the store (you can bring your computer with you if you'd like Geek Squad to install the parts for you) and ask a Geek Squad Agent for advice on what to do with your computer.

G4 MDD - Graphics Card. Replacement

Well, The G4 Mirror Door 1ghz Graphics card went out yesterday, and I need to find a replacement.
I can still boot, login over the network.. Just that there is no out put from the graphics card.. Tested the display with my G5 and it works fine..
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Thanks

Hi-
For ADC, you will need to look for a used nVidia GeForce4 MX, GeForce4 Ti, or ATI Radeon 9000.
These are the three cards that were offered with the MDD with ADC support.
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Swapping out Graphics card on HP Envy 17-k251na

Hello! I have a feeling that i may have been given the wrong information by the assistant i bought my machine from in PC world...
I was assured i would be able to swap out my graphics card, which is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M (4 GB DDR3 dedicated)
and upgrade.
I was also told i could upgrade the processor.
I've been told by a few people that this simply isn't true and to upgrade the Graphics Card i'd need a whole new motherboard... but the term "dedicated" is what's confusing me... am i wrong in thinking that it works seperately and the term "intergrated" means that it's part of the motherboard?
I spent a lot of money on this laptop on the premis of what the assistant told me! Ultimately that i would be able to upgrade this laptop as time went on. (I want to primarly want to use this for gaming)
I'm hoping what people are telling me is all hear say.. it doesn't seem to make sence to me that i can choose between two different graphics cards to run games with and they'd BOTH be intergrated into the mother board....
The other one that's in my machine is an Intel Graphics HD 5500.
Also this machine has a 1 TB HDD and an 8GB SSD, i'd like to also swap out for a larger SSD... i was also told that this was possible.
Hoping for good news here, any help woud be appreciated!

Right now the links to your product manual are down but assuming the 17-k200 series is like the 17-k000 and 17-k100 series there is no easy access to the hard drives and memory. That is, no customer accessible panels on the bottom you can open by just removing a screw. Further, there is no graphics "card" to just "swap out". "Dedicated" and "integrated" refer to the use of memory. An integrated video card shares system memory; i.e. the RAM supplied by the RAM modules you clip into the RAM slots. Dedicated video memory is memory built into the video chip. On a laptop, both kinds of video cards are soldered to the motherboard and cannot be upgraded. Your laptop has "switchable" graphics and most definitely has two different video chips soldered onto different places on the motherboard.
As for the processor, you already have one of the newest and best laptop processors offered. The video you have is also pretty top-notch. I am always a bit baffled by people who buy a laptop with the idea of upgrading it. Laptops just do not work that way. Components are way crazy expensive. Your processor is so new there are none to be purchased but when it does become available it will be over $350. On the very few super expensive engineering and high-end gaming laptops that do have a kind of removeable graphics card (mxm) high-end ones run at least $450. So even if you could do the upgrades, which you cannot, you would be looking at over $1000 with labor. I understand people do not appreciate the cold reality of this.
And just to hit you with more bad news, on your model the CPU might be soldered to the motherboard so it cannot be upgraded at all. I can confirm when your Manual is back online.
Upgrading memory and changing the hard drive for an SSD also requires extensive complex disassembly.
You have one of the best consumer laptops on the market. There is just not much upgrade headroom. It sounds like what you really want is a gaming laptop. HP makes one called the Omen which sells for about $1500-1800US, and would be a little stronger than what you have, particularly in the graphics. But even that is kind of a middle of the road thing. You can order a custom gaming laptop from a company like Sager and it is going to cost upwards of $2500 for the very best. Maybe you can complain to PC World and just return the one you have and start over a little wiser for the trouble.
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