Touchsmart 600 1350a Graphics upgrade mxm

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Hello all

I have a Touchsmart 600 1350a computer and it's great.

Only thing is, I'd like to upgrade the graphics card in it.

Although it is fine to run most games at medium settings, I'd like to play games maxed out with the help of a new card.

I love the computer and want to keep it for a few years ahead.

It has a Nvidia GT230 1gb factory installed into the MXM 3.0 Type A slot.

I've been looking around and I've found a Radeon 6770m MXM 3.0 Type A would be a suitable upgrade.

My questions:

Is this at all possible? As it came with an MXM card installed.

Would the BIOS support it?

Or am I stuck with what's installed?

Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated

[lasvegaswireman]

Here are the specs for your HP TouchSmart 600-1350a Desktop Computer. As you have stated, the system came with a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT230 MXM card. While the MXM slot is a "standard" slot, many people have had issues trying to upgrade the MXM card HP TouchSmart computer. Your best bet may be to contact HP directly as this is a peer-to-peer user support forum. If you have any luck sourcing a better card, please report this information to us. While "under the hood", you may also consider upgrading the CPU and memory in your system... this may relieve any potentail bottlenecks in those areas.

Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:
Intel Core i7 820QM Quad Core (C)
Intel Core i7 720QM Quad Core (C)
Intel Core i7 620M Dual Core (A)
Intel Core i5 5x0M Dual Core (A)
Intel Core i5 430M Dual Core (A)

Memory upgrade information:
Dual channel memory architecture
Two DDR3 SO-DIMMs (204-pin) sockets
SO-DIMM type-PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333)
Non-ECC memory only, unbuffered
Supports 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMMs
Maximum memory only if using 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM modules