Board 8 > Can someone savvy with graphic cards and/or laptops help me out?

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I have a laptop with a crappy integrated graphic card. It sucks for playing games. I want to change that.

I've read that it's really difficult to install real video cards on old laptops, but that newer laptops usually have a little thing on the bottom that you can just unscrew and install the card in there. This is a newer laptop.

My question is, what should I be looking for when trying to find where the graphic card goes? Or better yet, is there some guide on the internet to help with this? I have not been able to find one. Or even better yet, is there someone I can just take the laptop too and get help with this? I don't know if Geek Squad is still around, or if they would be able to help with this, or how much they'd charge.

Thanks, Bisons.

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What? I never heard that newer laptops had the possibility of changing the graphics card. How new do they have to be?

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Uh.

I don't think you can actually do this.

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I think that thing that you unscrew and install in there is actually RAM.

Go to the PC Hardware board for this, imo.

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/148909/upgrading_your_laptops_graphics_card.html

Maybe I'm not reading carefully enough, but this article seems to think it's possible.

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From: shadosneko | #004
Go to the PC Hardware board for this, imo.

I'm scared of other boards. They smell funny.

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The laptop that's shown in that article has a dedicated graphics card. If you have an integrated one, there's probably no room/expansion port for a new one.

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Well poo. I hate technology.

I'm not even sure if it's dedicated or integrated because I've been told its both.

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if you have integrated graphics, your laptops' motherboard probably doesn't have a port for a graphics card.

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what laptop do you have?

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It's a Toshiba Satellite A665-S6050.

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It's integrated.

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Great. Stupid laptop.

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From: Rad Link 5 | #012
It's a Toshiba Satellite A665-S6050.

Yup. Same type of laptop I have.

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