- May 29, 2014
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Hey guys,
So I'm looking at getting a graphics card for my laptop, because at present my laptop can't run quite a lot of the games I want to play. Now, I suppose I have two questions:
1. Is it actually possible for me to put a graphics card into my laptop, or will it not have the space?
The specs for my laptop are:
Acer Aspire V3-571
6GB DDR3 RAM
Intel core i3-3110M 2.4GHz processor
Integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics
500GB HDD
Now, I'm not too familiar with what integrated graphics actually are, but from what I understand, they're not actual graphics cards. So that begs the question, would it be possible for me to put a new graphics card in there? I know I should have probably opened the laptop up to have a look before asking the question, but I didn't really want to go messing around with it before I had any idea of what I was doing. So, with all that said and done, that leads to my second question.
2. If I were able to put a new graphics card in my laptop, where would I buy the card from? So far, my searches for, say, nvidia geforce GT 330M have only turned up information on the card or options to buy laptops with that graphics card in. So, where what I get the card from?
Thanks in advance for the answers you give me.
P.S. Please don't tell me just to get a new laptop, I don't have that kind of money. Either I can put a new graphics card in this laptop or can't, simple as that.
So I'm looking at getting a graphics card for my laptop, because at present my laptop can't run quite a lot of the games I want to play. Now, I suppose I have two questions:
1. Is it actually possible for me to put a graphics card into my laptop, or will it not have the space?
The specs for my laptop are:
Acer Aspire V3-571
6GB DDR3 RAM
Intel core i3-3110M 2.4GHz processor
Integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics
500GB HDD
Now, I'm not too familiar with what integrated graphics actually are, but from what I understand, they're not actual graphics cards. So that begs the question, would it be possible for me to put a new graphics card in there? I know I should have probably opened the laptop up to have a look before asking the question, but I didn't really want to go messing around with it before I had any idea of what I was doing. So, with all that said and done, that leads to my second question.
2. If I were able to put a new graphics card in my laptop, where would I buy the card from? So far, my searches for, say, nvidia geforce GT 330M have only turned up information on the card or options to buy laptops with that graphics card in. So, where what I get the card from?
Thanks in advance for the answers you give me.
P.S. Please don't tell me just to get a new laptop, I don't have that kind of money. Either I can put a new graphics card in this laptop or can't, simple as that.
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