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12-03-2015 07:28 AM - edited 12-03-2015 07:30 AM
My laptop has a pretty puny graphics card a iris 5400 but to play games which are more graphically demanding I need a replacement card. I know you can't replace them but the have found a device which you plug into your laptops pic slot and then it attaches to a full size desktop graphics card. I can't find anything on how to open the back of the model to check myself I would have to open it up and I don't want to break it.
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12-03-2015 12:43 PM
That is a scam that we have people ask about all the time. There is no pci-e port where you can plug in such a device and if there were you would not want to do it. The pci-e slot is for wireless cards and if you plugged in a video card the computer would not even recognize it as such. Further, the bandwidth of such a slot is 1x. On a desktop we use 8x or 16x pci-e slots for video. So it would be like trying to cram all the traffic on a Los Angeles freeway onto a one-lane country road. Your laptop would overheat and probably die.
12-03-2015 12:43 PM
That is a scam that we have people ask about all the time. There is no pci-e port where you can plug in such a device and if there were you would not want to do it. The pci-e slot is for wireless cards and if you plugged in a video card the computer would not even recognize it as such. Further, the bandwidth of such a slot is 1x. On a desktop we use 8x or 16x pci-e slots for video. So it would be like trying to cram all the traffic on a Los Angeles freeway onto a one-lane country road. Your laptop would overheat and probably die.
