I have some questions.

[Shattered Reflection]

I have been posting about my laptop that I had recently bought a couple weeks ago.

I was wondering if there is anyway to actually easily put a new graphics card in so I can play the new games for vista. I had also bought Halo 2 for the computer when I bought this game and I really want to get Cod4. I thought I would be able to play seeing it's a pretty good laptop and the graphics card is better than my comp but it can play Halo 1, which my laptop can't.

What graphics card would I need?


How much does it cost?


Will I have to pay an installation fee because I am not opening up my laptop myself?

 

[Xjaa]

I have been posting about my laptop that I had recently bought a couple weeks ago.

I was wondering if there is anyway to actually easily put a new graphics card in so I can play the new games for vista. I had also bought Halo 2 for the computer when I bought this game and I really want to get Cod4. I thought I would be able to play seeing it's a pretty good laptop and the graphics card is better than my comp but it can play Halo 1, which my laptop can't.

What graphics card would I need?


How much does it cost?


Will I have to pay an installation fee because I am not opening up my laptop myself?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/graphics_cards_buy_now.html
(you can pick yourself there, after reading the system requirements on the halo 2 box)

Should cost between 640$ and 40$ with a good card being around 300$

Since the laptop is new replacing the graphics card yourself should be easy enough, if it is a Dell laptop you could call customer support and assk them to help you.

 

[Ibrahim Al]

If your still not sure, you can ask the store where you bought your laptop from. They should be able to answer all of your questions.

~ Ibrahim Al

 

[wtp]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/graphics_cards_buy_now.html
(you can pick yourself there, after reading the system requirements on the halo 2 box)

Should cost between 640$ and 40$ with a good card being around 300$

Since the laptop is new replacing the graphics card yourself should be easy enough, if it is a Dell laptop you could call customer support and assk them to help you.

I dont belive those graphics cards are going to fit inside of a laptop.

I never heard of putting a graphics card in a laptop. Perhaps they have a external one somewhere

 

[Shattered Reflection]

I dont belive those graphics cards are going to fit inside of a laptop.

I never heard of putting a graphics card in a laptop. Perhaps they have a external one somewhere

I heard the external graphics cards aren't that good? Truthfully all I want is to play games like Halo and Cod4 on there.

 

If your PC's gfx card is better than the laptop's, but halo 1 doesn't run on the laptop, it's not the gfx card. Most likely RAM/way processor works. If you have a lot of processes going on, especially on dual core+, halo 1 is old and doesn't support multi-core process sharing.

Pretty much any big gfx card company sells laptop varieties. Best one is nvidia, but ATI is cheaper I believe.

 

[Shattered Reflection]

Vista said my graphics card was a 2.6 and it needed to be a 3.0

 

[chr1$]

Mkkk, Lets see kids. First off. You cant upgrade a laptops videocard. Just upgrade your desktops. ATI is cheaper because they suck, Go with nvidia.