Laptop GFX

[FoRRzY]

Hi recently it was my birthday and i got a new laptop. As i like to do gaming i was wonderign if i could change my gfx card in the laptop. i checked the internet but couldnt find anything it is a
Sony VAIO - VGN-NW24S. dont know what other Info will be need. the normal gfx card is mobile intel 4
thanks in advance.

The type of gfx would be good enough to play cod4 or codmw2.

 

[rolli59]

The problem with laptops is there is no upgrade ability unless it is an Alienware or like.

 

[Maziar]

Hello and welcome to the forums
Download GPU-Z and see what your GPU is,also as rolli said you can't upgrade it's GPU,there are few laptops such some AW and Sager models which allow users to upgrade GPU

 

[jay2tall]

Yeah, the think with laptops is that you can't upgrade their graphics at all. They are build on the main board in most cases, or a small preprietery daughter board. This is why most model laptops only have one or two other graphics cards choices. This is why most gamers don't go with laptops. I just helped my parents buy a laptop and a 4650 graphics card was a $200 option. Granted I had a $400 off coupon if the laptop was $1,099 or more, so it was all but free. And this this thing just gets by with MW2 and Left4Dead2. That is probably close to the minimum of what I would suggest. But again, you have to get a laptop with this from the getgo.

 

[FoRRzY]

Would it be possible to get the motherboard renewed with a different gfx card to put in the same laptop.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

IF it's part of the product line (as in if thee was a higher model available at time of launch), but even that would cost you significant amount of money to the point that building a gaming desktop makes more sense.

The laptop you have, has a low-end CPU, and surface mounted graphics, plus a very small chassis which would be terrible for heat disipation of either a bgger CPU or GPU; the only upgrade path is replacement in this case.