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‎01-07-2015 02:34 PM

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Product: HP 15 Notebook PC
Operating System: Windows 8.1

Hello,

A few days ago I purchased an HP 15 Notebook PC (Product Number J9H11UA#ABA).  It has an AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (Which is like one of the worst graphic cards on the market), 8GB of RAM, 750GB of hard drive, and windows 8.1. I really like the computer (mostly for the amount of RAM) however, the graphics card has got to go! I'm an avid gamer and this card could barely run The Sims on lowest settings (like come on). Is it even possible to upgrade the graphics card on this laptop and is it cost efficiant? Or would I be better off taking it back and continuing my hunt for a new laptop?

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‎01-08-2015 06:22 AM

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Solution one- download (speccy) It'll tell you you're motherboard name, google it to check if it has a graphics card slot that is welded in place or is one that can be changed. If yes then go onto crucial.co.uk it should help to tell you what graphics card you're best upgrading to or if you know your stuff then get which ever you like. 

 

solution two - if your card is soldered into place then just buy a new one. 

 

Remember if youre going to open up your laptop chances are your warranty will be void.

 

Hope this helps.

‎01-11-2015 09:56 AM

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Nothing I said was wrong. I said for him to check to see if it was soldered into place or if it was changable so read properly before telling someone they are wrong. I gave him a means to checking to see if it was changable by just buying a new graphics card. 

 

Nor did I tell him to buy a new motherboard. I meant for him to get a better laptop.

‎01-11-2015 10:26 AM - edited ‎01-11-2015 10:28 AM

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Speccy is just not the way to do this. All the specs for HP laptops are proprietary to HP and available here on this site. No need to try to figure out what kind of motherboard it has: it is an HP motherboard specific to the laptop model. Essentially no consumer HP laptop has a removeable video card so there is just no sense in sending somebody down the garden path to look for something that is not going to be there. And even for those few laptops with removeable video cards you are not going to find them at crucial.com. 

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