I have an Alienware laptop from summer of 2010. I believe that this makes it a first release post-Dell (everyone seems to call that "R1", given that the later ones are R2, R3, R4). It could be an R2, but I've got the Core 2 Duo- which I think means R1.
The graphics card is, I think, a GTX 260M.
I've had problems where the machine will lock up during play, frustrating me and hurting my fellow players. I have the ability to disable the graphics card and use the intergrated one- while doing this my framerate drops to just-barely-playable, but the lockups go away.
For this reason, I suspect that replacing the graphics card will fix me. Ideally, I'd be able to upgrade- there's been a couple generations of cards between now and then, and if any one of them could work, I would want that.
Unfortunately, I'm not easily able to tell if any of the cards on ebay would even work with my machine- and newegg doesn't even sell them!
Is there any way to tell if say, a GTX 460M can be placed into my mobo?
The graphics card is, I think, a GTX 260M.
I've had problems where the machine will lock up during play, frustrating me and hurting my fellow players. I have the ability to disable the graphics card and use the intergrated one- while doing this my framerate drops to just-barely-playable, but the lockups go away.
For this reason, I suspect that replacing the graphics card will fix me. Ideally, I'd be able to upgrade- there's been a couple generations of cards between now and then, and if any one of them could work, I would want that.
Unfortunately, I'm not easily able to tell if any of the cards on ebay would even work with my machine- and newegg doesn't even sell them!
Is there any way to tell if say, a GTX 460M can be placed into my mobo?