the vid card on my laptop

[DDD]

I have a pretty good HP laptop. HP pavillion ze5200, 2.6ghz 60gb hd. But my vid card is not the best. I mean it is cool but I want to start using lightwave on my laptop. So I need a better one. Someone recommended that I dont go doing any upgrades to a laptop outside of adding ram and stuff like that. Is that true? I really want a better vid card in it.

Advice Please form some of the computer gurus here.

BTW my vid card now is a Radeon ATI 64 mb

[Maxtr0sity]

I'd stick with the current configuration since changing video cards in a laptop isn't the easiest thing in the world to do. I've seen some laptops that you have to solder the suckers to replace them. I haven't opened one up in a while, so I'm not sure what's hip nowdays. But for one, they won't be cheap.

[Maxtr0sity]

http://www.ati.com/products/mobile.html

[Voetsjoeba]

If you're going to have it done anyway, at least have it done by professionals, because it's indeed not the easiest thing to do. Everything's really compact and small in a laptop and therefore perfectly tuned to the rest of the comp, replacing something isn't easy.

[DDD]

yea I think I will just leave well enough alone. I'll just make that a prerequisite when I buy another laptop. Thanks guys.

[simplistik]

You can get a ATI Mobility Radeon 9700. That's the card that comes standard in Apple Titaniums, and they rock. Play UT2K4 on the one I have access too. Of course it is a MAC and not a PC. :love: MAC

[asphaltcowboy]

i thought the alienware laptops were the only ones you could easil upgrade. either way, because of heating restrictions any gfx card will run considerably slower than it's desktop counterpart - can't see the point in wasting teh money :)