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Khaos x3h
12-23-2007, 01:22 AM
K guys. With a little sloothing at my house, I found this laptop at my house:http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8525786&type=product&id=1186007267563. I was looking at the specs and I noticed that the graphics card ain't to great. NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M (UMA), which, I know you can only upgrade certain ones. If I can't get a new card, would I be able to play games?
Burner110
12-23-2007, 07:16 PM
I have that same 1 except my specs r higher and my graphics card is a bit higher mine is nvidia GEforce 7400
Josef
12-23-2007, 07:25 PM
I don't think you can upgrade Laptops graphic/video cards. You could proberly play some games, but nothing like Bioshock or UT3. And the fps would be pretty poor.

I'm no expert when it comes to Tech though, so I could be wrong about the upgrade-able cards.
Khaos x3h
12-23-2007, 09:06 PM
You can only upgrade the GC if it's not sodered in to the motherboard. But it meets the recommended specs for K & L, The Club, Halo 2, and a few more.
Clipse
12-23-2007, 09:09 PM
You can only upgrade the GC if it's not sodered in to the motherboard. But it meets the recommended specs for K & L, The Club, Halo 2, and a few more.

Do you know how many laptops that have a video card which isn't on the motherboard? I've personally never seen on, but thats just me. Laptops are never the best things to game on anyway. There are external video cards you can get now I'm not sure on the specs of those off hand but do know they care somewhat pricey.
Khaos x3h
12-23-2007, 09:11 PM
Ya never seen one but ya. I'm not looking to play UT3 or Gears.
codedigital
12-24-2007, 03:15 PM
Do you know how many laptops that have a video card which isn't on the motherboard? I've personally never seen on, but thats just me. Laptops are never the best things to game on anyway. There are external video cards you can get now I'm not sure on the specs of those off hand but do know they care somewhat pricey.

I've seen a few.

Most have the ability to at least up the video RAM these days.
Flash
12-26-2007, 09:07 PM
You can't upgrade the graphics in that particular model of laptop, unfortunatly.

Try overclocking the card a bit, see how much you can squeeze out of it, but don't expect anything too spectacular from it.

So far you can only upgrade graphics in certain Dell XPS laptops and some Alienware models, but i'm sure it'll catch on...one day.

I personally prefer gaming on my laptop, because theres the whole mobility factor, but if you want to game on a laptop [ with good framerates ] prepare to pay the price, the hardware is usually twice the price of desktop hardware.
Khaos x3h
12-26-2007, 10:09 PM
Well actually that's not it lol. Wrong one. It's got an NVIDIA MCP67M? Is that equal to the 7100+ and could I atleast play like halo or kane and lynch and a few other games like age of conan: hyborian adventures?

I went to this website:http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srl and it said for halo 2, I needed bigger video ram? Can I upgrade that? Everything else was maxed out almost.
Flash
12-27-2007, 12:22 AM
Well actually that's not it lol. Wrong one. It's got an NVIDIA MCP67M? Is that equal to the 7100+ and could I atleast play like halo or kane and lynch and a few other games like age of conan: hyborian adventures?

I went to this website:http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srl and it said for halo 2, I needed bigger video ram? Can I upgrade that? Everything else was maxed out almost.

If you look HERE (http://ph.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071223213234AAA7AV7), the guy who has the same card as you says that he can play COD2 smoothly on low settings, so i'd be suprised if it will play halo 2, as it's an extemely bad port, you need some fairly good hardware to play Halo 2 on high, which IMO is absolutly rediculous.

Another good piece of software to check the durability of your hardware for games is a application called 3dmark. Download that and see what you get and post your score here.

As for upgrading your Video Memory i'd imagine it would be shared with the System RAM, thats how it tends to work now. On the box / sticker with the laptop specs on it will say "Up to 256mb Shared Memory" so that will be how much the chip will use from the system RAM. So if you're not getting that 256mb for the card, add more Ram and that will increase the video memory.