Changing my laptop's graphics card?

enshei

enshei

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Is it possible?

I have a dell inspiron 6400 with a 1.73 gb duo core processor, 1gb of ram, 80gb hard drive bladibla.

Having recently spent about £60 on games, then realising i cant play them has annoyed me quite badly, so i need an updated graphics card to play them. Finding out that www.systemrequirementlab.com tells you why the games dont play, has lead me to believe that my graphics card isn't good enough

The graphics card i own at the moment is a

Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family with 256mb shared memory

On www.systemrequirementlab.com my main problem is not having Video HW Transform & Lighting but sometimes not having a Vertex Shader or a high enough version of Pixel Shader.

So, is it possible to change my graphics card on my laptop?

If its any help, the games i cant seem to play that i've bought are Age of Empires 3, Farcry, Half Life 2 and soon World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade.

Thanks in advance
/Enshei
 
I dont think its possible. Laptops arnt as upgradable as Desktops are other then ram you cant do much.....everything is soldered into place (cpu and gpu) So most likely your current gpu is soldered in. I cant be sure on this, but iv never heard of upgrading the video on a laptop.
 
Yes actually there is a way to upgrade your graphics... Its just a pain in the ass. First of all your graphics are intergrated anyways but heres the basics of it. Just like a desktop you have your monitor hooked up to the port on the tower and the place where you plug the monitor in is attached to your graphics card. Oh a laptop its like that but miniturized. You see, the monitor still connects to it like that but its just more compacted. This is why people say its impossible to upgrade graphics because if you were to litterally take the bottom of your computer off to do this, you would find yourself watching every piece in your laptop fall out. But its still connected like a desktop so if you were to take the chance of doing that, and then finding an extra graphics card you could reconect it to that but then again how are you going to fit it.

Email Dell technical Support and then ask them about it. It would cost around how much you probably payed for your computer, because they would have to basically replace it but hey, at least you know.
 
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