laptop video card

morris14cc

morris14cc

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Can anyone help me with changing a laptop video card?
i am trying to change a DEDICATED ATI Radeon HD card in my laptop to a better card (possibly NVIDIA) i know the card can be changed, but i don't know how
Also, where can i get laptop cards? and can i change an ATI Radeon 2600 to a NVIDIA model or only ATI?

Will i be able to play CRYSIS?
1.66ghz core 2 duo
3gb RAM (exp. to 4gb)
512MB dedicated ATI

and how much better would a dedicated 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS card work with CRYSIS?
Thanks
 
um as far as my laptop memory goes, i am kinda sure that you cant swap laptops video card. for the most part they are part of the motherboard
 
9500M will not be able to run Crysis very well, its a midrange mainstream card. You shouldn't play games on a laptop period. Laptops are not designed to be lean mean gaming machines.

If you really want to know, I think the X2600 might do the trick at medium settings, I have a friend who has a X1750 on his laptop and I have played Crysis on it, its a far cry from my 512MB 8800GTS desktop one, but its playable. You are not going to experience the breathtaking graphics or effects, so it just takes abit out of the game if you play it with the wrong hardware, I think to play Crysis the way its meant to be played, you would need a desktop system, or you have a bottomless pit of funds, then you can probably run it on a laptop.
 
does the ATI Radeon HD 2600 have GDDR3 memory?
does the NVIDIA 9500M GS have GDDR3 memory?
and which would game better?
 
Its not a question of which will game better, its a matter of which games worse then the other one, because both those cards are not gaming cards, they are not designed for gaming. Those cards there will not do justice for Crysis.
 
elitehacker is right, those cards just cannot play Crysis. Heck, my computer can't even max out Crysis with legit frame rates. It's just too demanding of a game for all but the BEST of the best laptop's to handle.
 
And for the BEST laptop, you would be spending too much in my opinion because with the same amount of cash can get you an EVEN BETTER desktop so yeah, don't use laptops to game, its just not worth it.
 
c90? What? Isn't that a supercomputer from the 90's?

There's no way you'll ever make a decent gaming rig out of a laptop, I hope you realise that. As elite and dicha have very clearly said, even if you could, it's not worth it.
 
no a c90 is made by ASUS and is a laptop with desktop parts. The Processor is also upgradeable because it is a desktop part and the graphics cad goes in a MXM module and can also be upgraded
and i think it could game because it has:
Core 2 Duo 2.66ghz (could overclock) DESKTOP CPU
NVIDIA 8600M GT (512MB GDDR2 or 256MB GDDR3 Which is better?) MXM 2
and because it is a barebone i will then add a 7200rpm HD and 3gb RAM and VISTA Home Premium 64bit with XP Dual Booting
 
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3,134 in 3Dmark06 is rather pathetic. It really boils down to what your definition of gaming is, that card will "run" games, but I personally wouldn't call it being able to play games. Because of the fact that you would have to set the games to its lowest graphical setting just to get a playable framerate and that takes away the gaming experience.
So the 8600 might be able to run games but you just have to make a decision whether you want to play with everything toned that and leave A LOT to the imagination.
 
elitehacker said:
3,134 in 3Dmark06 is rather pathetic. It really boils down to what your definition of gaming is, that card will "run" games, but I personally wouldn't call it being able to play games. Because of the fact that you would have to set the games to its lowest graphical setting just to get a playable framerate and that takes away the gaming experience.
So the 8600 might be able to run games but you just have to make a decision whether you want to play with everything toned that and leave A LOT to the imagination.
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Yeah that is a crap score!! I get 5,199 with my setup and I only have $750 into my whole pc including monitor.
 
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