I have an IBM Thinkpad with window XP on it. My video card is an ATI Radeon 7500 but i want to have either ATI Radeon 8500 64MB or Nvida Geforce 3 64 MB install. Are either one of the hardware ok for my laptop ? How much are either one of them ? Its there anyone that can install the hardware ?
2007-08-29 18:00:02 · 2 answers · asked by Ming P 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Since a laptop is built how it is, enclosed in a plastic case, there's very little you can do to supplement it's performance. Some of the newer models do have the option of upgrading, but if it came with a 7500 I doubt that it's new enough. There's not a lot of support for those ones, either, so that makes it pretty hard to upgrade, even if you can. If you need to speed it up a little bit, you could add more RAM, some integrated graphics cards use the RAM for their own memory, and some reserve a section of RAM for a swap file. Try increasing the amount of memory that the video card uses and see if that helps instead.
2007-08-29 18:12:37 · answer #1 · answered by fishtrembleatmyname 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you want is SO EASY to do on a desktop but impossible on a laptop. If somebody tells you he can install a graphics card on your laptop, he is not joking. He is just crazy.
2007-08-30 01:30:34 · answer #2 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋