is my laptop's gpu replacable?

[MilitantComb]

If it's not replacable, is there some sort of an adapter that i can buy?

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

No it is hard to say to folks but laptop video is a fixed thing. The chip is soldered to the board. No way to remove and upgrade it. External video is common now but I assume you want something that will run games better. External video on your generation of hardware is done through the USB 3.0 port. All it does is allow extended desktop monitors to have multiple external displays. It still runs off the same video card and USB 3.0 restricts the bandwidth a little so not good for games; more for powerpoints and watching stock tickers. 

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[WAWood]

While I was looking up info on external video adapters, Huffer  already responded to you ...

But, what I was able to find was an adapter that allowed you to hook an Nvidia GAMING card to your laptop.  That's the good news.  The bad news is that it cost $300, and that's without the $200 more for the Nvidia card.

So, you'd be spending $500 to run games on your laptop -- IF it worked!

[Huffer]

Yes IF....you have to examine closely how that thing works and ponder how you would connect it and then think about the fact that it connects to the wireless slot which is a 1x pci-e trying to carry the same data as a pci-e 16x slot usually carries. I strongly discourage those eGPUs although to be fair we did have one OP say he got one working on a recent HP laptop. 

[MilitantComb]

Thank you guys,guess i'll have to kerp using my 820m since i'm not willing to spend $300 on an adapter

[WAWood]

Agreed, and that is a LOT of money to spend on the hopes that it will work.

[Huffer]

Probably could sell that laptop, add the $500 and get the HP Gaming with the Geforce 950M which would work for sure. 

[MilitantComb]

Seems like the best thing to do,maybe if i sell it along with my xbox one,i'd get a decent gaming laptop

[Huffer]

Take a look at this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Pavilion-i7-6700HQ-15-6-Inch-Graphics-Keyboard/dp/B017XM3DWO/ref=pd_lpo_147_t...

$1200 for the model with a 256 SSD and 8 gigs RAM And the 4 gb nVidia 950M

[MilitantComb]

this one should be more than enough,for how much do you think i'll be able to sell my laptop, i've had it for less than year and it's still in good condition(sorry for the late reply)