Upgrade to Graphics card - Acer Aspire 1714SMI

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Neil Weller wrote:
> I have an Acer Aspire 1714SMI and I would like to upgrade the
> graphics card.
>
> Has anyone ever done this, any pointers?
>
> Cheers,
> Neil

Mostly it cannot be done since the graphics card is either integrated
into the mainboard or soldered directly to the mainboard. There have
been exceptions (the Gateway 9100xl comes to mind), theoretically, but
even then the supply of aftermarket replacements was nonexistent.

Q

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"Quaoar" <quaoar@tenthplanet.net> wrote in message
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> Neil Weller wrote:
>> I have an Acer Aspire 1714SMI and I would like to upgrade the
>> graphics card.
>>
>> Has anyone ever done this, any pointers?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Neil
>
> Mostly it cannot be done since the graphics card is either integrated into
> the mainboard or soldered directly to the mainboard. There have been
> exceptions (the Gateway 9100xl comes to mind), theoretically, but even
> then the supply of aftermarket replacements was nonexistent.
>
> Q

The Acer's nVidia graphics card with 128MB memory is better than what is
offered by most laptops on the market, although the ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
in the Dell Inspiron 9100 is probably better for 3-D applications. A way to
improve your graphics performance might be to buy an aftermarket solution
which uses the PC card interface to connect an external video card. That
solution is pretty expensive, and the last time I checked, they used PCI
video cards. That arrangement supposedly helps a lot if you have an
integrated graphics chip, but given what you already have, I doubt it would
help you any.

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"Krystian Polak" <krpolak@poczta.onet.pl> wrote in
news:cptapd$epq$1@news.onet.pl:

>> sorry bub... laptops are really not upgradeable beyond RAM and hard
>> disk drives.
>
> Acer Aspire in not laptop in fact, it is desknote PC. And it is
> upgradeable. Please, check specification ;-)


and there I was in comp.sys.laptops browsing on my Acer Aspire 2000 laptop!
Silly me!