Miscellaneous laptop discussions : Video Card Surgery
Video Card Surgery
by rdinocco - 5/25/06 6:00 PMI got a new Gateway MX7337 a bit after Newyear. I really enjoy it, except it's graphics card is 64mb which is not what i want.
I know the first thing everyone will say is that it's impossible, that it's built into the motherboard, and that I should just buy a new laptop, but for aesthetic and personnal reasons, that is impossible in my situation.
I really want to know how I could replace it with a 128 mb chip. I'm not sure which one, since Gateway did not seem to give me the precise information on the dimesions and physical capabilities. All I know is that it is in a PCI bus, it's a Intel® Extreme 2 Graphics, and thats pretty much it.
Thnx,
Bere.
Really impossible
by Ghost26 - 5/25/06 6:37 PM In reply to: Video Card Surgery by rdinoccoSorry to tell you this, but it's really impossible.
This is an integrated graphics chip.
Only nVIDIA graphics controller equiped with the MXM technology can exange the chip ... and sometimes it's impossible because the cooling system isn't the same. A Ge 7900 makes more heat than a Go 7300 !
And it's the samething in your case.
A dedicated chip makes more heat than an integrated.
But try to see in the BIOS if you can change the allocated VRAM to the chip because this last steals 64 MB of the system RAM.
But even if you do this, the performances will not grew up...
Thnx
by rdinocco - 5/26/06 2:33 PM In reply to: Really impossible by Ghost26Well, thnx anyway.
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