Laptop Video Card upgrade

Santa · Post by **Santa** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:59 pm

> Hi all:
>
> I am looking to upgrade the video card in my Dell Inspiron 7500 Laptop so
I
> can run BZFlag & BZedit on it. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
>
> -Bill (Santa)
>
> My current card is as follows:
> ***********************************************************
> Video type: AGP 2X with sideband signals, hardware 3D accelerator, DVD
> motion compensation, ImpacTV2-quality TV output
>
> Video controller: ATI Rage-Mobility P video with AGP 2x, 4M/8M SGRAM
>
> Video memory: 4- or 8-MB 125-MHz SGRAM
>
> TV support: NTSC or PAL in S-video and composite modes
> Maximum resolution/colors 32-bit*
>
> *The video controller supports 32-bit color; the LCD is limited to an
18-bit
> (262,144 color) display.
> ***********************************************************

Post by **blast** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:05 pm

The only laptop, that I know of, with a user upgradable video card is the Alienware Area-51M. Most other laptops require the manufacturer to upgrade them, or can't be upgraded at all. This is my understanding of laptop video cards. If I'm wrong, anyone feel free to correct me.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:20 pm

you can upgrade many of the dells, I think you can get a GF2Go for that thing. the old card comes out. I have the same latptop.

all ATI rage cards suck

Post by **blast** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:17 pm

Patlabor221 wrote:you can upgrade many of the dells

Cool, never knew that.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:19 pm

mostly in insperon and the other "high end" line. I don't think you can do the latitides.

Noodleroni · Post by **Noodleroni** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:19 pm

I wonder what I can upgrade in my lappy (Toshiba Satellite P25-S607)...

/me looks

Santa · Post by **Santa** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:51 pm

Hi guys, and thanks for your input ... Patlabor ... I think the Inspiron 8000 series and above can be upgraded with the Nvidea GeoForce2 Go ... I looked at the pictures on ebay of this card and it has an L shape, while my card is rectangular. I dont think they are physically compatible. I also went to the Dell website http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums ... insp_video and they have some discussion in a forum on this matter ... however, I can't see where this is upgradable (although it would be simple enough because there is a panel on the back where the card simply pops right out).

-Bill

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:17 pm

I know it comes out, maybe it is just upgradeable with various versions of the rage mobility. I thought we had goten some GF2Gos here, but maybe I was thinking about the 8000's

Post by **blast** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:57 am

I did some searching on Google. In a forum post on dell's site (Help!! Upgrade my inspiron 7500) someone said that the best card you can get is the 8MB Rage-Mobility. There is some of these cards on eBay, but as Patlabor said, the ATI Rage card suck.