ATI Radeon Mobility upgradable?

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I know that most laptops are either a pain in the butt to upgrade or not upgradeable at all. I've got a Toshiba Satellite 1905 S301 coming to me that I got dirt cheap, and I want to know if anyone has had luck upgrading the video card. It comes with an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 and I know it doesn't do much in the area of gaming. Just wondering if its possible to bump it up.

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So is the lack of response a no or just that no one has tried it?

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As far as I'm aware, Hardly any laptops support swappable graphics subsystems, and none do so officially.

The only times I've seen such a thing mentioned was in a review of some quite recent mobile gfx chipset. (like mobility Radeon 9000 or something), and even then I think they couldn't get it to work anyway.

So I'm at least 95% sure that you can't do anything for it, unfortunately.

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You cannot upgrade older graphics chips (unless you go to town on it as an electr.eng. [then it's not worth the time/effort]).

Only modern laptops have upgradable graphics, and those either have special design swapable parts (like the Voodoo and Alienware laptops), or you send it to the Mfr to have them upgrade it (like a few other companies [I think dell will upgrade some of their R9000 equipped laptops, but only specific ones).

I have heard of no option on a chip as old as yours.

Really it sounds like it's time to get a new rig. MAybe wait for the PCI-EX enabled laptops, there is talk off them having plug-in semi-external graphics cards.

But the immediate answer to your question; No it can't be done either easily or economically in your case.


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