K-ROLE Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Hi Currently i,m using Acer brand Laptop ( Aspire 5572WXCi ) and thinking about upgraded my GPU. it,s using Mobile Intel 945GM Chipset with GMA950 64 Video Memory & Physical Memory 512MB DDR2' together with Intel CoreDuo T2300E @ 1.66GHz 2MB L2Cache. it does have PCI Express and came with GeForce 7300Go in a same series (but i,ve got Intel's GMA) just wanted to know can my laptop here suitable for upgrade..(thinking of 7 series GeForce) Thanks.. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smax Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 GMA graphics are part of the motherboard... You can't replace them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 The only solution for your problem can be the MSI Luxium or the Asus XG Station (if you have the express card port on your laptop). I hope they will be commercialized soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-ROLE Posted September 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 After read and look for other opinion about this GMA jerk (Intergrated GPU) i,m really disapointed and felt regret buying my laptop ( Cause at first thinkin i can upgrade or something ) but knowing it's was part of the mainboard :) ( man i really hope this thing can be upgrade ) as you said there was solution (using external GPU) i had review and really hope this thing available soon wonder when this thing on the market..and what port should i connected to my lappie..at first when i purchase i relly confident that my gpu can be upgraded since it has and support PCI Express and in the catalouge also said (Specification site) can replace for more performance in graphics. now i,just need to wait for this external thing ( if it really works ) as long i can play my Company of heroes or other games already installed that will be great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smax Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 I still haven't seen any real-world tests of those external graphics cards. Sure, they have a 16x PCI Express slot in them, but Expresscard is limited to 1x PCI Express. Sure it'll give you a boost in the graphics department and would be worth it for some people, but I just have no clue how much of a bottleneck that will be. I kinda laugh to think that some people might try to cram a 8800 in there only to find out that it only has enough bandwidth to power a much weaker card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-ROLE Posted September 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 but even this are really works.. from the way it looks seems so cool since it used desktop GPU.. ( From the Picture ) really hope it,s really available (i,m not care either using its own power supply or else as long it can be used) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-ROLE Posted September 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 ok if u said was limited to 1X PCI Express.. so mine has 16X so my slot can support or else? ( just hopin this thing can works ) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smax Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Expresscard only supports 1x. It'll accept 16x cards, I'm not sure how much of a performance hit there will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-ROLE Posted September 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Since this Luxium just made its debut at Computex .does it make any demo or something just for review i,m sure they not only display those model. but does they doin any Tests at Computex the articles not really explaining overall about those thing ( just want to see if it really workin) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-ROLE Posted September 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 (edited) :) Unfortunetly what is actualy ''discrete gpu' cause these really convince me on upgrading. Someone pls some help, ( need explaination on this ) Edited September 20, 2007 by K-ROLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessi3k3 Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 That's up to the OEM to decide, not you. Sorry, there's absolutely no way you can upgrade your laptop. Your stuck with what you have. No way around that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__-_-_-__ Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 There are notebooks with GMA and with mxm slot. These can be upgraded. It's not the GMA that is important. It's the MXM slot and the thermal/space/energy specifications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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