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Is it cost-efficient or even possible to upgrade the video card in a Asus Q501L laptop with Windows 8.1?
Graphics Card for Asus Laptop
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Noah Siano
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From what I understand, no. Your laptop needs an MXM card slot to replace the graphics card.
Now, whether you are able to take the gpu off the motherboard and stick another on there..well I suppose it's always possible? But I would imagine it is damn hard to find a replacement gpu to put in there, and of course the gpu could be soldered to the board which would make it near impossible to do. So looks like you're better off upgrading your laptop entirely or just leaving it as is.
Just quickly looked up the Q501L, and it doesnt look like it even has a graphics card...? All the ones I saw just had intel integrated graphics.
Now, whether you are able to take the gpu off the motherboard and stick another on there..well I suppose it's always possible? But I would imagine it is damn hard to find a replacement gpu to put in there, and of course the gpu could be soldered to the board which would make it near impossible to do. So looks like you're better off upgrading your laptop entirely or just leaving it as is.
Just quickly looked up the Q501L, and it doesnt look like it even has a graphics card...? All the ones I saw just had intel integrated graphics.
ssddx
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generally, no its not cost efficient or possible to upgrade graphics on laptops.
1)as mentioned above only mxm slot laptops have upgradeable graphics. since laptop parts are expensive, not very cost efficient.
2)your laptop has onboard graphics (on the cpu) and has no provision for graphic cards. this means there is no real way of upgrading it.
3)for on the motherboard graphics if two versions of the same laptop had different graphics on the boards its sometimes possible to swap but also can generate issues and is not cost efficient.
now, there has been talk and even a few people who have used external graphics cards with laptops such as http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616 however its not very cost efficient and prone to bugs. you'd need a gpu, psu, pci-e adapter (and a port to use the adapter with!) and then you could have a host of other issues (including that it might not work at all!)
now if you did get an external gpu running, laptop cpus are not as powerful as their desktop equivalents and generally have lower clock speeds. this will throttle your performance in games even if you had a decent graphics card to work with.
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short answer: no
1)as mentioned above only mxm slot laptops have upgradeable graphics. since laptop parts are expensive, not very cost efficient.
2)your laptop has onboard graphics (on the cpu) and has no provision for graphic cards. this means there is no real way of upgrading it.
3)for on the motherboard graphics if two versions of the same laptop had different graphics on the boards its sometimes possible to swap but also can generate issues and is not cost efficient.
now, there has been talk and even a few people who have used external graphics cards with laptops such as http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616 however its not very cost efficient and prone to bugs. you'd need a gpu, psu, pci-e adapter (and a port to use the adapter with!) and then you could have a host of other issues (including that it might not work at all!)
now if you did get an external gpu running, laptop cpus are not as powerful as their desktop equivalents and generally have lower clock speeds. this will throttle your performance in games even if you had a decent graphics card to work with.
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short answer: no
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