cthurman21 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Ive got an Acer Laptop. I bought it brand new from Staples a lil over a year ago. Its been a GREAT laptop for me. I just upgraded from 1gb of ram to 4gb and that helped alot. However, I need to update the graphics on it. If you know anything about Vista you know its got the Computer Scores now. Well mine is 3.0 (as thats the lowest subscore) and the subscore is 3.0 on graphics. I used CS4 and such so upgrading that I assume would help me alot, Im just not sure how or what. lol. Laptops arent my specialty. lol. P.S. Theres a sticker on my laptop that says "Graphics by NVIDIA GeForce 7000M". Im off to work but will read and reply when I get home in the morning. ((Im a night shift CNA..)) Thanks a ton!! :D :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Gee, you seem to be out of luck there... :( It's next to impossible to safely swap out the GPU on a laptop, because most laptop manufacturers use relatively specialised integrated graphics (as a part of a chipset rather than an individual component) - that's what the 'M' for 'Mobile' on the end of 'NVIDIA GeForce 7000M' indicates. ;) If you really do want to give it a shot, you'd need to find somebody with a lot of expertise. Most integrated graphics GPUs are actually soldered onto the motherboard, so to switch one out you'd have to melt the solder very carefully to get the old one out, then set the new one up and solder it in even more carefully. On top of that, the motherboards in most laptop chipsets probably won't know how to deal with any new graphics cards. Of course, if you do have a laptop with an MXM slot or some other swappable system, that would make things a lot easier. The manual should be able to tell you if it does. :yes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cthurman21 Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 Thanks! :D :D :D Chances are Im probably SOL.. haha.. But its ok.. At least I know now.. haha. I think its time to buy a new laptop anyway.. I found one that comes with 16gb of ram and Im like WOW! hahahaha. Talk about temptation.. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Agreed there. xD You're not the only one that's seriously in need of a hardware upgrade... Intel is awesome 'n all, but their graphics chipsets aren't exactly high performance. And this one is ancient! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrtbrk Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 That's the bad part about laptops. It only takes months, even weeks before a brand new top of the line comes out plus you can rarely - if ever - upgrade. For work, we got top of the line laptops like the day they were released. I think three or four months later I was at Best Buy and there were selling for 75% off. HAHA Yeesh. 16 gigs of ram! That's amazing lol. Is the price tag as shocking as the 16 gigs? lol jk ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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