Graphics Card Upgrade

[njdelmo]

I have the Spectre x360 Quad-Core Intel® Core™ i7 and NVIDIA® GeForce® MX150 16 GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM (2 x 8 GB) 512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD and I'd like to play some games online through Steam, but my graphics card doesn't fit the bill. I'm not looking to play very intense games, but ones like Hitman or something. Can I upgrade my graphics card? If so what's the process? If not, should I just try to play the games anyway? thanks

[visruth]

Sorry, like most of the consumer notebooks in the market from top brands around the world, you cannot upgrade or replace processor or graphic "chip" in your notebook.

Both are soldered and are unique to the board.

Manual: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05357610

[iomare]

Hi,

You can not upgrade the graphics card, howeveryou should be able to peform some casual gaming at medium settings, even newer games.

Here you can see a review of graphics chip and at bottom of page you can see different games, settings and FPS.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-MX150-Benchmark-and-Specs-of-the-GT-1030-for-Laptops.22...

So depending on the game it will work nicely,

However if you want to really game you could consider an external graphics card which would work well with the Thunderbolt3 port on your PC. 

Example:

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/omenaccelerator/overview.html

Hope it helps,

David

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[UndueSafe38]

Thanks, Visruth. I appreciate you taking time, but I don't want to upgrade, I want to find out whether my graphics hardware is faulty or not. And if there is, can it be repaired, or the entire board has to be replaced?