Upgrading graphics in Alienware laptop

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18 September 2013, 08:44 AM

brickboy

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Upgrading graphics in Alienware laptop

Hi there,

my lad has a 2 year old Alienware M14 laptop with nVidia graphics card. Problem is, newer games like Rome Total War 2 etc are a bit laggy.

Is a graphics card upgrade possible? Any input welcome.

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18 September 2013, 08:56 AM

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Pretty sure it's not possible since it's a soldered item.

You can upgrade the CPU (Socket G2 Intel Sandy Bridge), RAM (up to DDR3-1866) and the HDD (perhaps to an SSD) to improve performance.

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18 September 2013, 08:57 AM

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Gosh, lucky lad

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19 September 2013, 09:44 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ Dunk

Pretty sure it's not possible since it's a soldered item.

You can upgrade the CPU (Socket G2 Intel Sandy Bridge), RAM (up to DDR3-1866) and the HDD (perhaps to an SSD) to improve performance.

Thanks Dunk - turns out it is soldered to the MB, according to Dell.

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