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Summary: What video cards are used on laptops? Learn about different types of laptop video cards in this free video clip.
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James Adams I have been working with computers since my high school days, almost 10 years ago, when I took a Novell Netware 4.11 class. Since then I have built too many c... read more
Hi I'm James Adams I'm here on behalf of expertvillage.com and I'm going to talk about laptop video cards. Laptop video cards are not upgradeable and another thing about them is you could always look at what kind you have by going to start control panel system and then you go to hardware and device manager. Right here the forth option from the top forth or fifth it depends on your computer. You will click it and right there it says what kind you have. In my case I got a AT radiant 200 series. So one thing to know about laptop video cards is there are different kinds for a simple. I'm looking right now this Dell system and if you are planning to doing any kind of gaming on the laptop you are really not going to find a laptop with a video card cable to play like high in games. For under a 1000 dollars actually about 11 or 12 maybe even 13 but, in this case this Dell I have a if you where going to buy you have a couple of options Intel graphite meaning accelerator in 950 which is good enough for some games and mostly intended for emails and stuff like that, typing letters, what not. Then they have this second option on this Dell laptop which is 128 mega mobility S1300 which that would play some games and they have the 256 mega radian X1400 that would also play some games. With these cards the last two you will be able to play games but not with the first. The first one would play some games but not most of them. They have another manufacture right here it is called cyber power not only ATI radian are not the only ones that make video cards but also Nvidia In this case of these cyber power where is it cyber power it comes with it. There it is. It comes with a MGVA force 7600 256 mega which is better then the dell but, also it is 1200 dollars. So if you are planning on playing any kind high in games on it and you have a lot that you pay like 700 dollars for it there is not going to play games. Another thing like I said the video card on the laptop is not upgradeable the only kind that there is one kind of laptop that you could upgrade the video is called MXM module if your laptop has that. The module basically looks like a super Nintendo cartilage you just pop it out and pop a new one in but it was not very popular and has gone out of circulation.