does my laptop have the ability to have graphics card?

[micheal8]

hello i have the hp laptop pc 15-dw400 laptop with out a graphics card and in the model specs it says there a optional graphics card (NVIDIA® GeForce® MX550 2 GB GDDR6 Graphics Card), i am wondering if its possible to put the graphics card in now or if that is something that cant be done without breaking my laptop

[erico · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, no.

The discrete graphics  for your laptop model series are integrated into the system boards and not a pluggable module or card.

If you had selected a discrete graphics  pre-purchase, your laptop would have had a different system board.

It would have been one of the system boards in the list below.

For use in models with discrete graphics equipped with the following processors:
Intel Core i7-8565U processor and 4 GB of GeForce MX250 discrete graphics memory L51994-xx1
Intel Core i7-8565U processor and 2 GB of GeForce MX130 discrete graphics memory L51993-xx1
Intel Core i5-8265U processor and 2 GB of GeForce MX130 discrete graphics memory L51992-xx1
Intel Core i5-8265U processor and 2 GB of GeForce GTX1050 discrete graphics memory L51991-xx1
Intel Core i3-7020U processor and 2 GB of GeForce MX110 discrete graphics memory L51990-x