Is it possible to upgrade Laptop Graphics card?!!!!!!!?

Hi everyone!!! My first post here. I bought the HP Pavillion DV9605 that was on sale at PC World and I've just discovered that it has a shared graphics card!! It has an NVIDIA MCP67M graphics card that only provides a wimpish 64mb of RAM. That means it might not be able to handle any of the big games out there like World in Conflict. My laptop has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor and 2gb of RAM.

Is there a way I can upgrade the graphics card on my laptop or am I doomed to playing TETRIS?!!!!!?

There's nothing wrong with Tetris! It's a great game.

Now, the general rule of thumb I use is never even try to open a laptop up. The way they are put together means you usually have to do a few things in the right order else you could break something. I'dsay it's far too much trouble to go through.

I might be wrong, but I don't think you can just slot a graphics card in like a desktop anyway. If I'm wrong then I'm sure someone will correct me.

But I'd say you are relegated to Tetris, you could try some Pacman too or even Space Invaders to spice it up a little.

Have fun

There's nothing wrong with Tetris! It's a great game.

Now, the general rule of thumb I use is never even try to open a laptop up. The way they are put together means you usually have to do a few things in the right order else you could break something. I'dsay it's far too much trouble to go through.

I might be wrong, but I don't think you can just slot a graphics card in like a desktop anyway. If I'm wrong then I'm sure someone will correct me.

But I'd say you are relegated to Tetris, you could try some Pacman too or even Space Invaders to spice it up a little.

Have fun

NosmoKing1984

You are mostly correct. You can buy laptops that have upgradable video-cards, but the upgrade choices tend to be limited, and you'll most likely have to send the laptop have for it to be installed.

Also normally you have to buy the video card from the brand (e.g. Dell) from which you bought the laptop from/or was manufactured.

It's a costs / benefits calculation. By simplifying the way that the laptops are assembled, the producers get the prices down near where desktop pricing is. However, part of that is by selling no actual video system, but instead just including an onboard chip that simply cannot handle 3D at all properly/ speedily. The ratio of laptops that can actually play even the less demanding of recent games is worse than one in ten.

The assembly procedures used have made the separate video card into a permanent part of the chassis in the vast majority of the laptops that do have real video cards in them. Fewer than one laptop in a thousand (probably fewer than 25 in ten thousand) are designed for a potential video upgrade, and in every case where that is true that I have ever learned about, the upgrade must be performed by the original factory at a rather steep cost.

Generally speaking, the few laptops offering the option to upgrade are quite a lot more expensive than similarly equipped desktop PCs are, making them uncompetitive.

Actual, upgradeable graphics modules on notebooks are only available on like the $4000 notebooks because the companies will rape you hard for having that ability. Obviously, you didn't pay $4000 for your notebook.codezer0