External Graphics Card
By skr3wed
@skr3wed (147)
Vietnam
February 26, 2011 8:40pm CST
Anyone know if you can attach a external graphics card onto your laptop because my computers graphics aren't exactly the best for games. Do you, if you can, attach them in a USB 2.0 port or some other port.
I have a HP computer btw with a HDMI cable slot, Lan Cable Slot, 3 USB 2.0 Slot, SD card slot and the external monitor cable connector.
I'm thinking about putting a ATI Graphics Card in Mines.
1 response
@rog0322 (2829)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
27 Feb 11
Hi skr,
As far as I know, graphics cards attach to the mainboard and nowhere else. You may be thinking about all the I/O ports in your notebook but there's no such thing as an external graphics card unless an adapter can be had, either AGP or PCI. I understand you want to have a higher RAM for the graphics to play games seamlessly.
Unless your mainboard has an upgrade slot mentioned previously, you can't attach a graphics card on the ports you mentioned.
@gamingfanz (19)
• United States
25 Mar 11
It's probably best at this point to just build your own pc... here are a few builds:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Building-Gamer-Computer
and here are a few motherboard options:
http://www.squidoo.com/best-gaming-motherboards
