I have a Lenovo y50 touch uhd. I don't know much about computers. Does anybody know what would make it run faster? It's not slow, I'm just curious. Can I get a second graphics card put in?
Additional graphics card?
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The last generation had a slot for a custom 2nd card SLI. In this generation of release, the GTX 860M is stronger than the SLI versions of the last one, run cooler temperatures.
Touchscreen is a waste on clamshell computers (laptops), but anyway, The UHD screen at its high definition is a higher demand on the graphics GTX 860M than a 1080p screen. What some people did is bought the 1080p and replaced the screen with a beautiful 1080p IPS panel, but that also is not for you on the model you have. The UHD screen is set at locked at 48 Hz, so 48 frames per second is the fastest any game can display except by HDMI.
Many buyers think a laptop is as strong as a tower, seeing GTX 860 and ignoring the M for mobility and voltage.
G3D 1857
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
Up to 1080p shown here on this slow-load high data GPU to gaming:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/...849.0.html
but the UHD will significantly drop frame rates.
The graphics card is only appx
GTX 550 ti, HD 7770, GT 745, between R7 250 and R7 260
Tower pcs are a lot stronger, and better able to handle a uhd screen. You get fantastic movie and photo display. Excellent play in mid-graphics games like skyrim, but has issues on many of the newest games because the screen wants you to be ULTRA, but the GPU gets you only to medium or so.
You can't upgrade it. That is the nature of laptops. It is a great PC for what it can do, but you just need to lower settings on newer games. It is not slow, agreed, but graphics is about the graphics processor. The cpu can't compensate.
I discussed that here:
New games are designed for tower pcs. You got your portability, higher resolution than an Apple MacBook Pro
Y50 3840 x 2160 vs Mac 2,880 x 1,800
but graphics cards need to change each pixel.
HD 1366x768 is about 1 megapixels. Full HD 1920 x 1080 is about 2 megapixels. 2880x1800 is about 5 megapixels. Your display has 8,294,400 pixels as about 8 times as many little dots as a standard 1366x768 and the graphics card in each frame has to direct all 8.3 million of them to be a certain color and at top speed can refresh almost 200 million pixels every second.
It is amazing technology, but graphics processing takes a lot of performance.
Andy L