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Can I Change My Graphics Card?

Anonymous
2021-02-24T09:27:45+00:00

i want to change my Graphics Card, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family to any NVIDIA or AMD Graphics Card.

MY LAPTOP SPECS:

RAM: 2 GB

Processor: Intel Core(TM)2 Duo CPU 2.53 GHz

I don't know how to find my motherboard

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-24T19:44:39+00:00

    You got good advice from lightjack. Let me add a bit....

    Laptops for gaming is a lousy idea. The reason is primarily heat. Everything electronic produces heat. If that heat grows to large, it can seriously damage the electronics, if not ruin it. So, engineers who design these devices work hard at designing for heat dissipation. Laptops are very confined spaces and just don't lend themselves well to heat dissipation. In fact, if you study the processors Intel designs for laptops, they are very different. They tend to be slower in order to generate less heat.

    So, if you want to do gaming, a desktop design is the right place to do it. That also gives you a lot of advantages in flexibility to pick and choose components. Most serious gamers, design and build their own desktop PCs. Don't get scared when you hear that. It is not at all difficult to do.

    Desktops are faster $ for $, and their maximum speeds way exceed practical limits in laptops. Desktop lifespan is also quite a bit longer.

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  2. LightJack 05 2,575 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-02-24T19:04:12+00:00

    Hi,

    Your Laptop is currently running an integrated GPU that's directly built into your CPU.

    A laptop is usually very limited in term of upgrading.

    I you don't have a GPU built in other that this Intel one, you probably won't be able to upgrade.

    Even in Laptops with built in dedicated Graphics Cards are usually impossible to upgrade.

    It also wouldn't make much sense to put a GPU on that Code2Duo. The GPU would be severely bottlenecked by the CPU. Same goes for that RAM. You may be able to upgrade RAM or Storage and maybe CPU, but other than that you can't do much.

    If you want to game (assuming you want a GPU for that) you should buy a Gaming-Laptop or a Desktop.

    A desktop can usually be upgraded as you wish. Laptops are very proprietary in their design.

    Best Regards,

    LightJack05

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