What video card is compatible with my laptop?
Tags: Gateway Computer, Intel Core 2, Video Card
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June 18th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Unlike Desktop graphics cards, which are limited only by available slots, Laptop graphics cards are hard to find, and even harder to replace.
Laptop GPUs are not cards at all, but GPU chips soldered into the motherboard, so are the CPUs - meaning you have to melt the metal solder to take them out. This is the way most laptops today are made. You’ll have to be a real expert to be able to swap them successfully - even then success isn’t 100%. Manufacturers will not take them back for an upgrade.
Unless you have a laptop with a separate graphics unit or an MXM slot, you won’t be able to upgrade/replace it.
The only option you have left is to use an Expresscard-adpated graphics unit, but these are relatively new, relatively unknown, and pretty hard to find. Here’s an example:
June 20th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
The model number on your gateway.