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[BGrote]

I am trying to upgrade my laptop.. So far I have gotten a matte display, and Momentum XT 500GB 7200 RPM HD. I am trying to figure out how to upgrade the video card, but I have heard that it is impossible with integrated video cards (?) I'm not an idiot or anything, but inexperienced with hardware. (I'm a design student)

Any thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
B.Grote

 

[Timop]

Probably not, there are laptops with upgradable MXM card but you have a Dell.
You could crack it open and make sure, but just remember eventhough it is easy to take apart a laptop and put it back together, having it working afterwards is pretty hard.

 

[Lukas_98]

Hello there,

You could check if your laptop has the ExpressCard slot. If yes, you could have the chance to upgrade it with more powerful external desktop graphics card.

http://www.villageinstruments.com/tiki-index.php?page=ViDock

Or you could post the question to the "ViDock" page on Facebook.

Lukas

 

[mdd1963]

If it were upgradeable, it would be readily accessible via a panel on the bottom of the laptop, with the graphics card riding parallel....

In any event, i doubt the Inspirons were ever given this option...

 

[Shpati]

I am trying to upgrade my laptop.. So far I have gotten a matte display, and Momentum XT 500GB 7200 RPM HD. I am trying to figure out how to upgrade the video card, but I have heard that it is impossible with integrated video cards (?) I'm not an idiot or anything, but inexperienced with hardware. (I'm a design student)

Any thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
B.Grote

I really do not think it is upgradable. Upgrading a graphics card in a laptop might require some soldering skills. And with your laptop, you might need an extra GPU slot to just go out and buy one and put it in. Which I really doubt a dell has.