Is It Possible

[emir]

:( :( is it possible to upgrade a laptop toshiba p10-554
i want to upgrade my fx5600 graphic card

[Marius24]

don't laptops have onboard graphics? :fugley:

[bigdawgfoxx]

I would think an old toshiba would.

Alienware has real graphics cards I believe and you can upgrade as you wish.

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@5 April 2004 - 15:15
I would think an old toshiba would.

Alienware has real graphics cards I believe and you can upgrade as you wish.
They're still laptop graphics cards, but even if they are upgradeable to some extent, Alienware will be the one that governs what you can stick in.


The best laptop graphics card out is the ATi Mobility 9700.

[100%]

YES - you can - you can upgrade Everything in ANY Laptop


but its expensive-and those technitians at Toshiba aint cheap
100dollars an hour not including hardware.....
so check prices first

[fred devliegher]

YES - you can - you can upgrade Everything in ANY Laptop

IIRC you can't upgrade certain shared gfx cards (Mobility Radeon springs to mind) as they are soldered onto the mobo. Your only option would be to allocate more RAM to the card, if possible.

[emir]

oke thanx man do you now how much the ati card costs


my laptop
2.8 MHz
60 Gb
Fx 5600
and many other stuf

[Mad Cat]

What is there that is better than an FX5600 apart from the Mobility 9700 (the mobile 9700 is very new, and will be very expensive)?

Maybe a FX5700, but there wont be a worthwhile difference in performance for the prices you'll have to pay.

Stick with the FX5600, its not really that bad a card.

[tesco]

Originally posted by emir@7 April 2004 - 03:42
oke thanx man do you now how much the ati card costs


my laptop
2.8 MHz
60 Gb
Fx 5600
and many other stuf
I think think its that 2.8mhz processor which youve really got to upgrade :lol:

[emir]

no it isnt the mhz its the graphic card maybe if i upgrade my laptop memory to 3 Gb it will be better i think

[4th gen]

Originally posted by emir@7 April 2004 - 12:31
no it isnt the mhz its the graphic card maybe if i upgrade my laptop memory to 3 Gb it will be better i think
No home user should need 3GB of ram...what are you hoping to be able to do? Run 10 instances of photoshop simultaneously?

[emir]

no maybe when i play games it can go faster when i play them now its stops a little bit with a gf 5600

[4th gen]

Originally posted by emir@7 April 2004 - 12:38
no maybe when i play games it can go faster when i play them now its stops a little bit with a gf 5600
How much ram do you currently have?

[emir]

512 ddr ram

[4th gen]

Originally posted by emir@7 April 2004 - 12:52
512 ddr ram
You might want to upgrade to 1GB then, but unless you've got money to throw away there's no point in going for 3GB of ram. Adding ram won't solve the graphics problem

[tesco]

i recomend you start tweaking the computers settings because on that system you should not be having any problems running any games.

heres what you do:

first scan for spyware and viruses. mcafee is a good antivirus program and a good spyware program is spysweeper. make sure they are bnoth completely up to date.

next delete all of your extra junk crap files on your computer using window washer. (its a program by webroot, www.webroot.com).

now uninstall any programs you dont use. dont just delete teh icons or folders, actually uninstall them properly.

go to msconfig (start>run>msconfig) and click the startup tab at the top of the screen. now uncheck any programs whiuch you dont need to run at startup. things like the winzip icons, nvidia\ati icon, musicmatch, anything dont need to be sitting in your system tray (on the taskbar, area near the clock), so just disable them through that startup screen on msconfig.

next disable system restore and indexing service. to disable system restore first right click my computer, then click properties, then system restore tab at the top, then click turn off system restore for all drives. this will greatly improve your systems performance, especially if you have a slow hard drive. Now go into start>run>services.msc> and double click system restore service, and click stop, then click disable. do the same thing for the indexing service.

finally defragment your hard drive. i recomend you use diskeeper as it is a much better program than the default windows defragmenter.

thats about it, now get to work! and good luck!

[emir]

Thanx ROSSCO_2004 YOu are the greatest





PS DO you KNOw good SITes FOR LAPtop PARTS LIke graphic card ,harddisk and stuff

Thanxx

[Mad Cat]

Where are you from? UK? US?

No point giving you a UK site if you're US.


What I was trying to point out earlier was that there is no better graphics card than a Go FX5600. There might be a 5700 laptop version, but you will pay a lot for it.

[emir]

i am from belgium fight across the uk ghahahahhaha

i know what you said but need a site anyway

[tesco]

Originally posted by emir@8 April 2004 - 06:31
Thanx ROSSCO_2004 YOu are the greatest





PS DO you KNOw good SITes FOR LAPtop PARTS LIke graphic card ,harddisk and stuff

Thanxx
so it works fine now? good...

getting a new graphics card is not going to fix any slowness problems you are having now though...because all you can get is one model higher than what you have, and that would cost way to much and there would be little to no better performance...

[emir]

jes i know but i have only problems with games like far cry the rsst is working great i think ill by that 5700

[tesco]

Originally posted by emir@8 April 2004 - 08:36
jes i know but i have only problems with games like far cry the rsst is working great i think ill by that 5700
Have you tried the latest video driver?

You can download your video drivers from here (http://www.nvidia.com). You should also download any other new drivers released for other hardware. You can find them on your manufacturers website.