is a shared graphic card in a laptop upgradable?
2006-12-12 05:44:26 · 6 answers · asked by Zeitgeist 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
the definition of a shared graphic card means that it take memory for graphic handling & processing out of your laptops main ram... so there is no way to increase the shared graphic memory allocation without physically increasing your main ram....
after increasing u can set ur allocation in the boot setup.....
advice... graphic allocation should not be more than 1/8th of ur total ram allocation(i mean physical ram here not windows virutal ram)
2006-12-12 05:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Arnab Ghosal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shared graphic cards are mostly found in most of te mid range cards that are out nowadays ati calls it hyper memory and nvidia calls it turbo cace even tough they both are basically the sme thing there are samll differences and make the consumer tink that it is thae actual memory available when actually memory is taken from the ram or random access memory there is a way to inrease performance but not drastically by increasing the ram therefore increasing syastem performance nand being able to dedicate a fair amount of ram memory to the graphic card
graphic cards usually sold as 256mb shared have 128mb shared and the the rest is shared from the ram so therefore the lesser is the ram the worser cards sold as 512 shared have 256 dedicated and 256 taken from the ram or 128 taken from the ram so therefore a gud amount of ram is required to increase performance and so that the card will be able to perform to its full potential u can also increase the performance of the card by increasing graphic acceleration bar at thegraphics section in control panel menu
2006-12-12 07:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by shaheenarshan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the memory that the card uses is shared (it is taken from the main system memory). No, you can't upgrade it.
2006-12-12 05:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by Milu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, shared video is built into the motherboard and cannot be changed without changing the entire motherboard. You can allocate more RAM to it, but that's about it. You can do that through BIOS.
2006-12-12 05:47:05 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you'll be pretty happy with this. I have had a Toshiba Satellite for almost 2 years and I'm still very happy with mine.
2016-05-23 00:06:53 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than likely, no.
2006-12-12 05:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋