Guide To Upgrade Your Laptop Graphics Card PDF Print E-mail
Written by Francua Smith   
Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:02
If you play a lot of 3D games on your laptop, you might have thought of upgrading your graphics card. ATI and nVidia both have a very solid range of graphics cards for laptops, but the process of upgrading to these cards has never been very clear. This article should help you out, by showing you the precise steps for upgrading that ailing laptop graphics card of yours.
by FrancuaSmith


If you play a lot of 3D games on your laptop, you might have thought of upgrading your graphics card. ATI and nVidia both have a very solid range of graphics cards for laptops, but the process of upgrading to these cards has never been very clear. This article should help you out, by showing you the precise steps for upgrading that ailing laptop graphics card of yours.

1. Check Your Laptop's Compatibility The first thing you need to check - previously you even go out to buy a fresh dedicated graphics card for your laptop - is to look whether your existing laptop can support that fresh card. The finest put for checking this data is your laptop manual. If you have trouble, you can also check with your laptop manufacturer. Important note: In my experience, I have found that normally just Dell laptops can be simply upgraded. My of my readers or friends upgrading laptops from other manufacturers run into problems one way or another. So investing in a Dell gaming laptop might be a fine concept to support future graphics cards upgrades.

2. Precise Steps For Upgrading Your Laptop Graphics Card Now we will delve into the precise steps for upgrading your laptop graphics card. It's really quite a simple procedure.

Step 1: Remove the hinge. The first thing you need to do is to delete the hinge on the laptop. On newer laptops, you might not need to do this - you can only open a panel at the bottom side of the laptop. Step 2: Detach the keyboard. The next step is to delete the keyboard - take out the screws beneath your laptop's hinge cover to do this. Sometimes, with newer laptops, you can only delete the keyboard using convenient latches on the chassis. Step 3: Remove the show assembly. This can be a bit tricky. What you need to do is to delete the show assembly (i.e. the whole laptop screen) by removal screws on the back and bottom of your laptop. Carefully delete any video and Wi-Fi cables as well.

Step 4: Remove the laptop shell. Next thing to do is to remove the upper shell of your laptop. You should now see the graphics card you want to replace. Step 5: Replace your graphics card. Now you should slowly and carefully insert your new laptop graphics card into the laptop's interior. Step 6: Re-assemble everything back together. Once the new graphics card is in place, you just do the reverse steps as spelt out above and re-assemble the whole laptop together again.

3. Test The Newly Installed Graphics Card The last thing to do is to fire up your laptop and check out the new graphics card! Make sure you download the latest graphics drivers and test it out on your favorite 3D game. If all went well, you should be enjoying crisp and smooth 3D graphics with your new laptop graphics card.

Conclusion And that's all there is to it! I do hope this article has shown you the steps for installing a new graphics card into your laptop. It's quite a simple procedure, really. Just make sure you follow the instructions above and I'm sure you'll be enjoying your new graphics card before long. So until next time, good luck to you and happy computing!

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.

Francua Smith is a good Computer specialist who has a lot of experience on laptop computers. He will help you to choose your own good laptop computer.