Upgrading The Dell e1705 Notebook Graphics Card

[009098]

yup its wonderful to know how to replace my graphics card when i cannot find a single store that will sell the portable cards. I am looking on the nvidia website and see some that are reasonable but i cant buy directly form them and nowhere has them for sell (the only places that do have them wont sell them outside of a notebook)

help please

i want to know where can i buy a replcement for my graphics card?

[pastorjay]

Your best bet to get one is either through eBay or got o notebookforums.com and look at their For Sale section. You MAY be able to get one through Dell directly, but that usually does not happen.

Hope that helps!

Jason

[generalpetres]

would it be possible to upgrade the 1400 to a nforce go 7900 gtx or a 7950 gtx?

[road]

I've never poked around in a laptop that I didn't drop. Great article and photos! Very nice performance boost. Glad you got the fans cooling more effectively, that thing is en fuego!

[pastorjay]

would it be possible to upgrade the 1400 to a nforce go 7900 gtx or a 7950 gtx?

I believe some have done the 7900GTX, as there is a bios for it for the 1705. It takes a little mod, but nothing that is terribly hard or that ruins the chasis. I am not sure about the 7950.

[wildlaser]

I just bought a E1705 9400, I have the option for a single pipe or dual pipe Gforce 7900 GS, will either one fit in the 9400 E1705??? There is a 30 dollar difference, I already paid for single pipe but he may let me switch, will it fit? If so I will gladly pay to keep it a bit cooler.

Thanks,

[pastorjay]

You could either in. THe single pipe is a drop in card for the 9400/1705. The dual pipe requires a tab be broken off inside the chasis. it doe snot hurt it, but it needs to be done.

[digitalwanderer]

Oh man, thank you so much for this read! My wife has the e1705 and I love it for everything 'cept gaming....now I can turn it into a gamer!

But I'm a bit too die-hard an ATi guy to put a 7900gs in, I'm bugging ATi now to see if I can get one of their next gen lappy GPU early to try it with.

I'll let ya know how it goes, otherwise the 7900 is a great card. I just prefer to use ATi stuff since I hate nVidia PR so much.

Thanks again for the read, you made something I thought was impossible look ridiculously easy. Thank you.