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Upgrading Video Card in an Inspiron 1520

22 Oct 2009 08:54PM

I currently have a 3 year old Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with an nVidia GeForce 8600m GT 512MB video card. I was wondering if there is anyway to upgrade to a 1gb video card. Also, if the upgrade is possible, where i can purchase a replacement video card. Thanks ~josh~

 

------------------My Laptop--------------------

Inspiron 1520
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz
2GB DDR2 (soon to be 4GB)
160GB Hard Drive (soon to be 500GB)
8x CD+-R\RW, DVD+-R\RW,DVD-DL
512Mb nVidia GeForce 8600m GT
WXGA+ Screen
Web Cam
Windows XP Professional w/ SP3

Virtual Machines: Windows 98 SE(VPC), Windows 7 RC(VPC), Haiku(VMware), WinXP Pro(qEmu on a flash drive!!)

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Re: Upgrading Video Card in an Inspiron 1520

22 Oct 2009 09:27PM

It's not possible - you already have the fastest card made for your system;  there is no upgrade.

 

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Re: Upgrading Video Card in an Inspiron 1520

07 Nov 2009 10:49PM

ok. thanks. I actually just found out that this card is really a 256... but has something that allows it to pull 256 more from main RAM. What is this... and how does it work? i.e. how do i set it to pull the 256 from the RAM?

 

I can do this now because i just order 2 x 2GB PC-5300 and a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400rpm hard-drive. WOOT WOOT!

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Re: Upgrading Video Card in an Inspiron 1520

08 Nov 2009 06:03AM

Windows Vista will use some system RAM for video purposes automatically - no user intervention is needed.

 

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Re: Upgrading Video Card in an Inspiron 1520

08 Nov 2009 03:04PM

i know that Vista does... but the problem is that right now, I am running Windows XP Pro w/ SP3, and when my new hard-drive arrives(tomorrow) I will be running Windows XP w/ SP3 and a dual-boot of Fedora 11(modified gui)... So I ask again... how do i set it to take the extra 256 from RAM? Is it a BIOS setting?

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Re: Upgrading Video Card in an Inspiron 1520

08 Nov 2009 06:59PM

The answer is, you don't.  There's no BIOS setting, nor will XP use system RAM for video the way Vista does.

 

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