Laptop graphics card

[emostar666]

hello, im new to the forums i have an Acer Aspire 3000 laptop and am wanting to know if i can update the graphics card on it , i have never changed hardware on a laptop only on a normal pc, is there only certain cards that fit my laptop ? or will any graphic card fit it ? i know hard drives and ram are different in laptops but wasnt too sure about graphics cards the card i have at the moment is a 64mb sis card i was wanting a raedon as i have one in my pc . any advice would be greatly appreaciated.


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[Impotence]

Welcome to Hardwareforums!

As far as i know, your out of luck on changing the graphics card :(

Allthough you can upgrade it in a way... add more RAM! The graphics card and system normally share the same memory in a laptop, so add more and increase the amount reserved for the graphics card in the BIOS (there is a limit as to how high you can set it tho)

It *might* be able to go higher than 64MB on your laptop (to 128MB), i would have a look before you upgrade anything (allthough more RAM allways helps :D)

 

[roy92]

if your graphics is shared with your RAM, then addin more RAM will increase the memory for your graphics right?

 

[Big B]

Not necessarily. Integrated graphics have a limit to how much of the system RAM they can siphon off, so 64MB may be all it can use, but I've heard of some options taking up to 512MB (why I don't know), but this can vary depending on the particular graphics solution and any limitations built-in by the company. However, with limited upgrade options, adding RAM is a good move, not to mention one of the few that you're really going to be able to facilitate.