Upgrading a Graphics card for PowerBook G4?

I have a Dual 1GHz Power PC G4, with I am assuming an ATY, RV250 VRAM 64MB Graphics Card. Is there a better or more powerful card on the market today to upgrade what I have? Are there web sites that will help me understand the differences in graphics cards and their specs? Thanks for any info.

I have FCP 5.1.4 also, and I find it's gated not by the video card, rather, by the speed of the system, and to a lesser degree, amount of memory. When I encode, I turn off FCP displaying what it's doing, so that everything can go into the encoding.
To maximize it's encoding speed, ensure you have lots of empty disk space, have maxed out the memory, and of course nothing else running while it's encoding. I tilt the back up 3/4" or so, to get the maximum amount of airflow for cooling. Continguous disk space can be a good thing for video usage, and this Apple note talks to it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US . Too bad they stopped making 7200 parallel ATA hard drives, as that could help encoding speed a bit too.

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Lets start out with that is an antique system with limited options because it only has PCI slots and no normal video card. The card you are asking about does have "High Definition 3D Performance & Image Quality to Your PC" If you are considering getting one, try the EBay market as this is really old hardware and you can get one for near nothing. For Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Visiontek-Radeon-X1300-Graphics-Card-256MB-128bit-900106-/191175474229
Just make sure the one ordered is the PCI version.
There are other possible choices: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187213
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Hi i just would really like to know if there is any way to upgrade my graphic card for my laptop?

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In order to upgrade the video on your notebook however, the entire motherboard needs to be replaced.
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Usually (95% I've met) notebooks are not upgradeable with videocard. You can replace CPU/memory/HDD and even some cards like WiFi&Bluetooth, but not video. This is due to different heatsink design in different models and also different vide module sizes, while CPUs/Memory/HDD have their standarts, which makes the replacement easier.
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I have an HP Pavillion p6120f. I want to upgrade the graphics card to run modern games. Can anyone help me? My current one is a chipset family.
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... show all the screens, including Boot up screens, Safe Mode, Installer, Recovery, debug screens, and Alt/Option boot screens. At this writing, these choices include:
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I am looking to buy the Toshiba A100-207 laptop and it comes with 128MB of shared graphics.
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But this does not change the upgrade situation.
Possibly you will be able to remove the graphic card but Im sure you will get compatibility problems with other hardware.
The stronger graphic card produces more warmness and the temperature would increases automatically to a higher level. This would lead to the overheating issue and the notebook would either shut down or not starts.
The desktop PC technology is simply different as on the notebooks. You can also not compare the different graphic cards. Notebook manufactures uses only the graphic card chips which dont supports an own cooling module.
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