So I tried to turn on my old laptop and it's still working. It's a very good laptop ( Sony Vaio) so Graphics wondered if you can update your graphics. ( I know it's possible ) but can you please give me a link. All the other websites say you can't update it.
Details:
Laptop: Sony Vaio
Graphics Hardware: ATI Mobility Radeon X 2300
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo CPU
Operating System: Windows 7-32 bit( I updated it from XP to 7)
I think if you can update your operating system you can update your graphics hardware.
If you can give me a link for the newest one. Or the latest one that is compatible with my laptop, I will choose you as best answer. I was a very good laptop 7 years ago. By today's standards it's pretty obsolete. The problem you're going to face is laptop GPU's are usually OEM-only items. They are not sold retail. And when you do find one for sale, it's going to be pretty expensive. Also further complicating things is that there's no industry-wide standard for the dimensions of discrete mobile GPUs. For example you might have two GT 740M's, but one might fit in certain Lenovo laptop and another might fit in a certain Dell only, the cards are functionally identical, but were built to size/shape demands of the OEM, so they can't be used in other models.
"I think if you can update your operating system you can update your graphics hardware. "
You would be incorrect in that assumption. How you can correlate being able to accomplish a software upgrade with the ability to upgrade hardware is baffling to me. But anyway it's quite the rarity for a laptop's GPU to be upgradable. When it is possible your selection will be limited only to what other GPU's were offered for your exact model of laptop. In your case it's a moot point because the computer is so old that even most powerful Radeon mobility X2xxx would only be about 1/3rd as powerful as a modern integrated GPU. And that's the absolute best case scenario.
Realistically, it's pretty dumb idea to spend money on a laptop that obsolete. Those are soldered into the motherboard.
