I have enough RAM and CPU power to run HL2 but my video card sux bigtime, its an s3 graphics card with 32mbs. I have a labtop, and I need to know if this can be upgraded. Its a compaq presario 700 if that helps, its atleast 3-5 years old. I know only certain models can be upgraded, and only to a certain degree due to the labtop's limited power. Would it be possible to upgrade this to an R600, and maybe upgrade the CPU as well?.
Can you upgrade a labtop?
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And in a lot of cases you can't even upgrade the ram if it's built in. Sometimes the hard drive is built in too. They usally use a propritary hard drive or ram type too, so you can't just pick up generic ones at the local computer store.
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It depends on the laptop, some offer user-upgradeable graphics, but these are usually new ones.
Laptop hard drives and RAM, on the other hand are quite easy to source - but some very few manufacturers do use proprietary (read expensive) stuff. If it isn't tho, you can use the same sort of memory as the Apple iMac, PowerBook and iBook - or just plain vanilla SO-DIMMS. 2.5 inch hard drives are harder, but not impossible to get.
Laptop hard drives and RAM, on the other hand are quite easy to source - but some very few manufacturers do use proprietary (read expensive) stuff. If it isn't tho, you can use the same sort of memory as the Apple iMac, PowerBook and iBook - or just plain vanilla SO-DIMMS. 2.5 inch hard drives are harder, but not impossible to get.
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