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Hi everybody. I've recently been looking for a new graphics card for a HP laptop. My current statistics are:

Processor: AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-64 (2101 MHz)

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium, 32-bit

DirectX version: 11.0

GPU processor: GeForce 8200M G

Driver version: 186.44

Stream processors: 8

Core clock: 400 MHz

Shader clock: 800 MHz

Memory clock: 675 MHz (1350 MHz data rate)

Memory interface: 64-bit

Total available graphics memory: 1407 MB

Dedicated video memory: 256 MB

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 1151 MB

Video BIOS version: 62.77.2F.00.07

IRQ: 23

Bus: FPCI

What kind should I get?

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Go for a quadcore with at least 4GB ram and a decent video card.

He said graphics card, not CPU

Anything NVIDIA should do the trick, like a 560M, 570M, 580M, something like that.

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No, most laptops you cannot upgrade the graphics on whatsoever. There are a couple of exceptions such as boutique companies and limited run models. You can also connect a desktop GPU using a PCMCIA slot and some really, really good soldering and electronics skill. One inherant problem with upgrading graphics cards in general is that they get bigger and bigger every year. Check out this example of the slow progression over the last 10-15 years:

ATI Rage128

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3DFX Voodoo

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nVidia TNT 2 (Note the need to add a heat sink to the main GPU chip this time.)

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3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 (Unreleased test card, the company died mere weeks before it was due to ship, note the need for fans)

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ATI 9800PRO

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nVidia 7800

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nVidia 8800GTX (I had one of these when it first came out.)

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AMD 6990 - The graphics card in the world as of this writing, and one of the largest.

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My laptop runs on:

AMD Athlon II X2 P340

AMD Radeon HD 6650M

4 GB DDR3 Memory

750 GB HDD.

And GTA IV did stutter first time I ran it, I used a notepad, and wrote in some commands, like, FPS limit and such,

and saved it as a command.txt inside GTA IV Main folder, and now it works like a charm.

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My laptop runs on:

AMD Athlon II X2 P340

AMD Radeon HD 6650M

4 GB DDR3 Memory

750 GB HDD.

And GTA IV did stutter first time I ran it, I used a notepad, and wrote in some commands, like, FPS limit and such,

and saved it as a command.txt inside GTA IV Main folder, and now it works like a charm.

That's the most messed up spec sheet I've seen in a laptop. lol Most of that stuff is pretty good considering it's a laptop but that processor is very weak considering the rest of the spec list.

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