Getting New Graphics Card


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OK I bought this Toshiba Satellite C655 Intel Core i3 Processor 4gb ram 500gb storage, with the Intel HD Graphics card.

I haven't been wanting to overheat the graphics card since I was playing on the Preformance notch and the thing was smokin hot.

I would like to bring full potential out of the processor and ram, but the graphics card is bringin them down.

I know Nvidia is best for CoH, but I want an all-around graphics card that could handle all types of games. (i.e CoD AVP CO DCU)

I know I'm probably gonna get scorned at somehow because I'm not 100% sure about what I'm saying lol.

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Nick
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Toshiba Satellite sounds like a laptop brand. As far as I know, nobody has made a laptop that allows you to swap graphics cards.

Increasing the performance sliders rarely causes an increase in temperatures for graphics cards. It usually only causes decreased framerates. The only exception I can think of is if the processor core has a separate section for anti-aliasing.


 

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This is indeed a laptop. The only brand that I am aware of that offered video upgrade ability was alienware before the buyout from dell. Not sure if they even offer that anymore.

The only option is to slowly increase the demand on your video card by playing with the sliders a little bit at a time to see what you can get out of it before you take a huge frame rate hit.


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Okie dokie. Is there anything I can do about it being so hot? I don't want it to splode on me.


 

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Okie dokie. Is there anything I can do about it being so hot? I don't want it to splode on me.
You can buy a laptop cooling pad to help dissipate the heat.


 

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Is it the bottom of the laptop that's hot? If so, there are those USb fan banks that you can actually set the PC on top of...

Was looking at a Satellite for a gaming laptop this weekend to replace my aging Gateway.

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How hot are we talking?

My Toshiba Qosmio X300 can run up to about 77 degrees on Processor and Graphics card on a cooling pad while running CoH. While the number seems high, the important thing is that despite hitting those numbers, they're stable.


 

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Spelling the words "The" "Epic" and "Squad" correctly has been shown to lower temperatures on most rigs...


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Spelling the words "The" "Epic" and "Squad" correctly has been shown to lower temperatures on most rigs...
But then it wouldn't be unique now would it?
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Shouldn't that be "uneek?"
lol

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There is little you can do for laptop performance. Add ram, maybe a cpu or hard drive, none of this you need though.

I will say though, on my laptop, just formatting the dam thing after buying it and reinstalling the operating system and drivers did wonders for its performance. why why WHY do they put so much crap on those things!!! This has become standard proceedure for my mobiles now


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There have been occasional demos of external graphics cards for laptops, but non have yet made it to market that I'm aware of. It's highly doubtful at this juncture that you'd see one soon, if ever.

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You CAN fit an external graphics card to virtually any modern laptop, but it's expensive and there's currently only one route you can take to fit it unless you have one of a very few select brands that offer a manufacturer-provided upgrade solution (Acer Dynavid Graphics Dock, Amilo GraphicsBooster, etc).

You'd need to buy a Netstor NA220A External PCI-E Card Dock, and connect it up to your laptop's ExpressCard slot. THEN you'd need to buy a PCI-E graphics card to put in it. The Dock alone will set you back about £300-£350, so realistically you'd probably be better off buying a new (desktop) system.


 

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Glad to see there are other manufacturers working on similar products.

A quick search seems to indicate non of those are currently available in the US, which is unfortunate. Mind you it was a quick search so I may have missed something.


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Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down View Post
There have been occasional demos of external graphics cards for laptops, but non have yet made it to market that I'm aware of. It's highly doubtful at this juncture that you'd see one soon, if ever.

MSI article

Asus Article

I know I wanted one of these for ages - I would actually buy a laptop - you know I am a geek, perhaps I will work on making one!


 

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You CAN fit an external graphics card to virtually any modern laptop, but it's expensive and there's currently only one route you can take to fit it unless you have one of a very few select brands that offer a manufacturer-provided upgrade solution (Acer Dynavid Graphics Dock, Amilo GraphicsBooster, etc).

You'd need to buy a Netstor NA220A External PCI-E Card Dock, and connect it up to your laptop's ExpressCard slot. THEN you'd need to buy a PCI-E graphics card to put in it. The Dock alone will set you back about £300-£350, so realistically you'd probably be better off buying a new (desktop) system.

Trouble is the PCIe slot is only equal to 1x PCIe and so it limits the throughput of the graphics card. What is needed is an external graphics slot set on the bottom of the laptop dedicated to high bandwidth. Then I would create a pad similar to a laptop cooler with an additional graphics card that would dock to this slot and would lock the laptop in.

This is the solution.