Laptop video cards

been looking online for awhile and was wondering if bestbuy sold video cards for laptops?

hyzzle wrote:
I built my system, I know there is an upgradable video in it because of 2 reasons:
1. I built my system
2. I physically put an ATI radeon mobilty 4500 series card in it.
3. I built my system
No need to argue and tell me that most, some, or no laptops come with an upgradable video, I'm not worried about most other laptops. Laptops that come from a factory are built to make the factory money. If you cant upgrade it then you have to buy a new one. I bought the components for mine, bought the case, OS, software, hardware, addware, spyware, everything and assembled/set-up. All I wanted to know is if this store carried the cards, not get in a debate about whether my laptop was upgradable. I have already purchased a card elsewhere so thank you and please no more replies.
If you want to tell yourself that the Cyberpower notebook you ordered was "built" by you, go right ahead. We'll all just laugh at you and call you a loser. But I know for a fact you don't have the skills to build your own notebook. If you did, you wouldn't have asked the question here because anyone who is knowledgeable enough to have done what you claim would have known better in the first place.

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How or Can I upgrade my laptop's video card?

is it possible? First of all I don't know if my laptop video card is intergrated, i heard if it is, you cant upgrade...here are my specs for my Toshiba Satelite L675D
AMD Phenom™ II dual-core processor N640*
4GB DDR3 memory
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Processor Platform VISION Premium
Video Memory256-1917MB (dynamically allocated shared)
thank you..and if it is upgradable..can you please tell me a good graphics card that can probably run Starcraft 2 on high maybe ultra? something i can buy from best buy or wal mart, not online...thanks

dgaul99 wrote:
My computer specs are the following
Processor*
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T6600
Operating System* Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)*
Graphics Engine* Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
Graphics Memory* 128MB-1759MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory
But in my specs it says that i have one free PCI-E slot. I have no idea how to access it nor do i have any intention. (I'm very un-tech savy ) Anyway, is there anyway i could have someone that knows there way around a computer open it up and see if its possible to add another graphics card? Or would i be better off just getting a High-Def monitor (this is an option)?
See above - if you have a laptop, then it is almost guaranteed that you cannot upgrade the graphics. It is 100% guaranteed in the case of laptops with Intel integrated graphics, which you have.
I have no idea why a laptop would advertise a PCI-e slot - Perhaps it has a Mini-PCIe slot that a mobile broadband card can be installed into? Or do you mean the ExpressCard expansion slot?
If you don't have a laptop and instead have a desktop, you probably should have posted a new thread rather than to a laptop thread to avoid confusion.
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Not possible Unfortunately...all cards nowadays are built in only
It was possible in the old days
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Hi,
Unfortunately no, we can't change video card on nearly all laptops including yours.
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$1-2k get a cheaper customized dell, or sony vaio
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Hi!
thanks for your reply!
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
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Identifier "Card0"
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BoardName "All"
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Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
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Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
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EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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Vincenzo

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