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‎12-15-2016 02:00 PM

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Product: hp 15-ac037ne
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello.

I really need to replace my current graphics card (AMD Radeon R5 M330) to other one that's supoorts linux.

how can I find graphic cards that are compatible with my motherboard.

Thanks in advance.

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‎12-15-2016 02:20 PM

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The video chip is soldered to the board; there is no way to replace it or upgrade or change it out for something else. 

 

There are open source driver packages that should support that video card in current Ubuntu distributions:

 

http://askubuntu.com/questions/720364/amd-radeon-r5-m330-drivers

 

The standard xOrg driver should work but will not have 3D support. The updated AMD driver will. 

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‎12-15-2016 02:20 PM

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The video chip is soldered to the board; there is no way to replace it or upgrade or change it out for something else. 

 

There are open source driver packages that should support that video card in current Ubuntu distributions:

 

http://askubuntu.com/questions/720364/amd-radeon-r5-m330-drivers

 

The standard xOrg driver should work but will not have 3D support. The updated AMD driver will. 

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‎12-15-2016 10:36 PM

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even if it's dedicated (external / discrete)?

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‎12-16-2016 02:06 AM

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It may be dedicated/discrete but it ain't external. Yes all video cards in almost all laptops are soldered to the motherboard. A few very expensive gaming or mobile workstation laptops have a removeable upgradeable video card but that kind of card looks like a big wireless card, not like any video card you ever saw. 

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