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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: brothasx on July 01, 2015, 12:59:58 AM

Title: Laptop graphic card replacement
Post by: brothasx on July 01, 2015, 12:59:58 AM

Hi Guy's !
i got a question about my laptop .. i dont know much about hardware and well i have a question about graphic cards
so i am using a Acer Aspire v17 Nitro ( black edition )
and i was wonder if it was possible to replace the graphic card in this model of laptop .
If yes what is the best graphic card that can be placed in this laptop ?

 System Model: Aspire VN7-791
               BIOS: V1.07
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
             Memory: 12288MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 12212MB RAM
          Page File: 4626MB used, 10016MB available
Gforce GTX 860M

Kind regards !

Title: Re: Laptop graphic card replacement
Post by: camerongray on July 01, 2015, 03:15:55 AM

The GPU on that machine appears to be soldered to the motherboard so unfortunately you cannot replace it.  Very few laptops nowdays have replaceable GPUs as they make the machine a lot thicker and heavier.

Title: Re: Laptop graphic card replacement
Post by: geckoomlet on July 05, 2015, 06:36:16 PM

Indeed, the GPU is soldered on this one, but why are you considering it? what's the problem you are trying to solve?