Can i upgrade my graphics card?

[Usernamesareannoying]

I recently purchased a HP Touchsmart 300-1020 Desktop PC. Looking to upgrade my graphics card but after doing a little reading online I'm not sure if I can? It says it is "intergrated" and from my understanding that means its connected to the motherboard in such a way I'd have to have a genius take apart my computer to put in a better graphics card? Any help would be appreciated I'm not great with the internal workings of computers just trying to boost this up to play FFXIV smoother. Meeting just above the minimum requirements


Specs:


Operating system
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition

Processor
AMD Athlon II 235e Dual-Core Processor (2.7GHz)

Memory
4GB

Memory speed
PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM memory

Total memory slots
2 DIMM (240-pin, DDR3) (occupied)

Maximum memory expansion
N/A

Graphics card
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics with 256MB integrated shared graphics memory. Up to 1919MB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows 7

TV & entertainment experience
Touch-enabled 20" diagonal HD LCD Display with Brightview technology

PCI expansion
1 PCI-E x16 slot (MXM 3.0) (occupied) 2 PCI-E x1 mini socket slots (occupied)

Hard drive
500GB 7200RPM Serial ATA hard drive

Primary CD/DVD drive
Slot-load SuperMulti DVD Burner Write: 8x max. DVD±R, 4x max. DVD±R DL, 4x max. DVD±RW, 5x max. DVD-RAM, 16x max. CD-R, 10x max. CD-RW Read: 8x max. DVD-ROM, 24x max. CD-ROM

Secondary CD/DVD drive
N/A

Networking
10/100/1000Base-T network interface Wireless LAN (802.11b/g/n) featuring Single-band (2.4Ghz) 2x2 MIMO technology

Sound card
Integrated High Definition Audio with 2.0 sound capabilities

Speakers
High-performance 2.0 Speakers

Front-side bus (processor dependent)
4000MHz System Bus

 

[karma831]

HP Touchsmart 300-1020 Desktop PC

I believe this is an all-in-one PC so probably not. I don't think there is free PCI-E slot and there probably wouldn't be enough room for one if you pulled something out.

 

[Tamz_msc]

No, you cannot upgrade video cards on all-in-one PCs.

 

[jaguarskx]

Sorry dude. Similar 98% of the laptops out there you cannot upgrade the video card in your "All-in-One" PC.

You have the following choices:

1. Live with the limitation.
2. Buy an actual PC that will allow up to upgrade parts.

 

[Usernamesareannoying]

Damn thought so. Thanks anyways guys for the reply's

 

[Guest]

yes you can touchsmart 300 has one mxm socket (the laptop format graphic card interface). you need to buy a compatible graphic card and the heatsink.

 

[mollymb]

yes you can touchsmart 300 has one mxm socket (the laptop format graphic card interface). you need to buy a compatible graphic card and the heatsink.

you probably won't answer but do you have any idea what kind of card i could get to fit? i have the HP touchsmart 300-1025 & just recently found out about the MXM slot. after googling for an hour i think its 3.0(type a) - but i can't find any other info on it and i dont know anything about graphics cards.