upgrading my laptop?

[JDMjunkie]

well i just purchased a Toshiba Satellite notebook model A135-S2276. i was wondering if its possible that i can upgrade the video card. it doesnt say its integrated just that its pci express. can anyone help me out please?

[Leung]

i don't see why you can't upgrade an PCI E gfx card reguardless if it is a laptop.

[NutBucket]

Very unlikely but there are a few out there that can be upgraded.

[ExplodingCake]

as long it has a video card slot and its compatible with the specs u got, u have no problem..

[Accord R33]

just because its PCIe doesnt mean you can pull a desktop GFX card off the shelf and stick it in. all laptops use PCI for their devices. PCI is simply a spandard protocol, not necessarily a standard size.

The answer is probably no.

[wed3k]

just because its PCIe doesnt mean you can pull a desktop GFX card off the shelf and stick it in. all laptops use PCI for their devices. PCI is simply a spandard protocol, not necessarily a standard size.

The answer is probably no.

do you know the different between pci and pci-e?

[NutBucket]

just because its PCIe doesnt mean you can pull a desktop GFX card off the shelf and stick it in. all laptops use PCI for their devices. PCI is simply a spandard protocol, not necessarily a standard size.

The answer is probably no.

Exactly right.

I bet my car there isn't one laptop out there you can plug a desktop graphics card into.

I know that there are some alienware laptops that have modular video cards, but they are far from "standard".

EDIT: Laptop displays use proprietary interfaces that aren't at all similar to DVI or standard analog protocols.

[Accord R33]

do you know the different between pci and pci-e?

yes...

PCIe is an expandable PCI protocol that has a buch of different levels of bandwidth, PCIe 1x being the lowest bandwidth, and PCIe 32x being the highest. The biggest thing that makes PCIe supirior to regular PCI is that its a serial protocol, not parallel like PCI, so you can send data in both directions. The other cool selling point for PCI is that it uses an SLI (scalable link interface), so you can theoretically run, say, four identical graphics cards at the same time, and each one will render a quarter of the screen (that is if the GFX card supports SLI of course).