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In Special Reserve i have was looking at the soundcard you can buy which works with a PC and Laptop i think it works via the USB Port, i was wondering if anyone knew of a Graphics Card which does this as i would like to update my graphics card and this is the only way it actually seems possible. Also is it possible to have a Sound or Graphics card in the form of a PCMCIA Card?
Is it possible to Buy a new Harddrive for a laptop or some more RAM?

will play around with it tonight and rerun 3D Mark 2001 and Q3 benchmarks etc, will let you know how I get on. Thanks

Raising the amount of shared memory will make a lot of differance as a lot of notebook come with only using 8mb as defalt and if you can raise that to 64mb then that would make a lot of differance.

Colin

Mine isn't as good as ures

Its a Time A340 i think,
800mhz
8mb graphics
10 gig hardrive
256mb ram
Win Me (Updating to Winxp pro probably tommorow)
and some other stuff....you cant increase the prossessor on a laptop?

My Laptop specs (Samsung V25)

Specifications
Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz processor
Intel 845GV core chipset
15.1" XGA (1024 x 768) TFT display
256MB PC-133 memory
30GB UDMA hard disk
16bit SoundBlaster compatible audio
SPDIF digital audio output with 5.1 surround sound
Microphone input port
8x, 8x, 8x, 8x, DVD/CDRW Drive
Li-Ion Battery with up to 2 hours life
2 X high speed USB 2.0 ports
1 x VGA port
1 x S-Video TV output port
Parallel port, serial port
Internal 10/100 Ethernet
Internal 56k V.90 modem
Internal 801.11b wireless LAN adapter with 128bit WEP
Microsoft Windows XP Home
Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
2.9Kg weight
320 X 265 X 39.5 mm

I haven't tried altering the shared memory, would it really make that much difference ? I am expanding to 512mb within next day 14 days.

Any other (useful) suggestions ?

You can raise the amount of shared memory you are using for your graphics in the bios and this may imrove things, What is the spec of your notebook and also why are you wanting to upgrade the graphics? what are you wanting to do?

Colin

Quazimodo wrote:
> In Special Reserve i have was looking at the soundcard you can buy
> which works with a PC and Laptop i think it works via the USB Port, i
> was wondering if anyone knew of a Graphics Card which does this as i
> would like to update my graphics card and this is the only way it
> actually seems possible. Also is it possible to have a Sound or
> Graphics card in the form of a PCMCIA Card?
> Is it possible to Buy a new Harddrive for a laptop or some more RAM?

Quazi, AMD man is right you can't upgrade the graphics (sadly) but can the memory and hard-drive. Look in you manual to see what specs the memeory and hard drive are and then order compatible bits from www.ebuyer.co.uk

The Soundblaster Extigy is a great external soundcard, No you can't get external graphics card, you are just stuck with the onboard graphics im affraid or buy a new notebook with a better graphics card.


Colin

In Special Reserve i have was looking at the soundcard you can buy which works with a PC and Laptop i think it works via the USB Port, i was wondering if anyone knew of a Graphics Card which does this as i would like to update my graphics card and this is the only way it actually seems possible. Also is it possible to have a Sound or Graphics card in the form of a PCMCIA Card?
Is it possible to Buy a new Harddrive for a laptop or some more RAM?