Can Laptop Graphics card be upgraded?

Topic.Can Laptop Graphics card be upgraded?
If you had innate knowlage of the inner-workings of your laptop, yes, you could likely replace the MXM card the graphics chip is on. However, you would litterally have to dismantle the thing and you might never get it back together again. And there's always the fact that the cards cost quite a bit of moolah.Can Laptop Graphics card be upgraded?
Actually, the first thing to discuss is the fact that some kind of percentage close to 90 % represents the number that do NOT have any kind of discrete video processor circuit board at all. For those, there isn't even any provision of a place to PUT a discrete circuit board with a GPU on it. All those PCs have is the onboard chips built into the Chipset ASIC. Next, we discuss the remaining 10 %, of which a large part are assembled in the manner referenced by Kodak, such that after the laptop has been fully assembled, the GPU's circuit board has become permanently attached to the chassis. The relatively small number that remain, that do offer a provision for comparatively simple disassembly, are nothing like any desktop. There is no industry standard like ATX that is followed. The only circuit boards that will fit are those made for the very model laptop by the manufacturer, and those are not sold for home upgrading. While the same model, or a newer version that shares the chassis, is in active production, you can send your laptop to the factory for the upgrade, at a very steep expense.
[QUOTE=''Kiwi_1''] Actually, the first thing to discuss is the fact that some kind of percentage close to 90 % represents the number that do NOT have any kind of discrete video processor circuit board at all. For those, there isn't even any provision of a place to PUT a discrete circuit board with a GPU on it. All those PCs have is the onboard chips built into the Chipset ASIC. Next, we discuss the remaining 10 %, of which a large part are assembled in the manner referenced by Kodak, such that after the laptop has been fully assembled, the GPU's circuit board has become permanently attached to the chassis. The relatively small number that remain, that do offer a provision for comparatively simple disassembly, are nothing like any desktop. There is no industry standard like ATX that is followed. The only circuit boards that will fit are those made for the very model laptop by the manufacturer, and those are not sold for home upgrading. While the same model, or a newer version that shares the chassis, is in active production, you can send your laptop to the factory for the upgrade, at a very steep expense. [/QUOTE] That is true. And also if you have integrated (e.g. Intel Graphics Accelerator), there is no way to upgrade those AFAIK.
I'm pretty sure that Asus has some external enclosure with a PCI-E slot inside of it, allowing you to boost the graphics performance of a laptop (and consequently decrease its portability). I don't remember what interface the enclosure uses to connect to the laptop.
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[QUOTE=''My_name_a_Borat''] I'm pretty sure that Asus has some external enclosure with a PCI-E slot inside of it, allowing you to boost the graphics performance of a laptop (and consequently decrease its portability). I don't remember what interface the enclosure uses to connect to the laptop. [/QUOTE]The Asus XG station uses a cardbus slot and it's not available.
[QUOTE=''Gog''][QUOTE=''My_name_a_Borat''] I'm pretty sure that Asus has some external enclosure with a PCI-E slot inside of it, allowing you to boost the graphics performance of a laptop (and consequently decrease its portability). I don't remember what interface the enclosure uses to connect to the laptop. [/QUOTE]The Asus XG station uses a cardbus slot and it's not available.[/QUOTE]We can probably make that response into '' ... it's not ( YET ) available.'' The concept is good enough, and the number of laptops is large enough, that some sort of add-on graphics bus/ slot is an inevitable kind of thing, but the ideal arrangement would be to have a docking station with a place for a video card inside of its body (the Asus prototype is rather impractical for anyone who ever had a kitten or an infant in the house, since the card itself ended up so totally exposed and unprotected).