banny1

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My friend has an acer z5700, what are the best options to upgrade the graphics on this. External? or is it possible to upgrade internal although that would probably void the warrenty (although, I think that may be up for expiry soon).

I have seen a few external options, but they seem to center around laptops.

Any help would be appreciated.
 

kd0frg

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hmm, i think the Power supply in that all in one PC is only 250 watts, so you couldnt put anything real beefy in it, aside from that i dont think you can

if you look at http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/Manuals/acer/2011/ServiceGuides/SG_Aspire_Z5700_Z5710_20100907.pdf

they take it apart, and the internals (aside from the hard drive) are just like that of a laptops, so you cant actually put a graphics card in it .. now there are external GPUs you can use on laptops i hear but ive never messed with one