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clang220

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I want help on getting parts for my laptop to be able to play the new games and looking to spend only $250 or under.
My Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L500D
Operating System: Windows 7 64 bit
I don't know much about these things so I'll start off with the graphics card.
my current graphics card is ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4600 Series and I feel thats a little outdated at this time, it diffinately cannot run games like Battlefield 3, it can but it'll be too laggy. Can barely play Skyrim without the massive fps drop.
And I'm gonna need an upgraded RAM data, right now mine is at 4gb also not enough for those kind of games.
I don't know about the processor I think it should be fine. AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile M620 2.50 GHz
Lastly where can I buy these parts in Australia, if online what websites?
 
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cozmium

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One of the main problems with upgrading the gfx in many laptops is that they won't have the cooling for it, and will just overheat. Like these guys have already said, a desktop will serve you much better.
 
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clang220

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Only problem with the desktops is theres no wireless card and we only use wireless in this house, but I do know how to use the laptop as a wireless adapter but that would be a waste of energy since I have to keep the laptop on to have the wireless. I thought if I could take the wireless card out of the laptop and put on the desktop I can connect to the wireless.
 
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Who said desktop cannot have wireless? They are capable of wireless technologies like WifI and bluetooth
 
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Quite frankly, upgrading that laptop won't be worth the time and effort. Not only will parts be difficult to come across, they'll almost certainly be second-hand only and have compatibility and cooling issues, particularly with the CPU and GPU. Laptop components are very much built for life and are not designed to be user-replacable.

If you went down the desktop route, the only component you could reuse is the hard drive, and even then you may need an adapter. I hate to keep piling on the bad news, but I doubt $250 will get you far in the desktop world. It should get you a few decent components, but you'll most likely, at the least, need to double your budget.

Sorry for all the negativity, I'm just being realistic.
 
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