No, they are not the same thing.
It depends, do you have a laptop, how old is your computer, and how much graphics capability do you want? If you have a laptop, you can't upgrade If it's new (around 2006 or later) you can upgrade your desktop pc Gaming Graphics cards range from $120-$300 USD for a good card Others can be as low as $50 Good Budget Gaming card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti chipset card Powerful Gaming Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 980/980 Ti chipset card Low end card: Nvidia GeForce GT 720 chipset card
You should go to a expert for that. I strongly do not recommend taking apart your laptop
No. It is a graphics card chipset.
The Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family is an integrated graphics solution and does not have a dedicated graphics card to replace it directly. However, you can upgrade to a dedicated graphics card that is compatible with your motherboard, provided it has a PCIe slot. Options like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon RX 550 are good entry-level choices that can significantly improve performance for gaming and graphic-intensive tasks. Always ensure your power supply and system specifications can support the new graphics card.
No, the graphics chipset on nearly all laptops is on the motherborad and laptops do not not have expansion slots. Desktops often have "on-board" graphis as well, but they have expansion slots so you can disable the on-board graphics and add a video card to one of the expansion slots to upgrade the graphics.
It is simple. You just need to take the bottom cover off the laptop to expose the area of the computer that has the PCI card slots. Just pull the current graphics card out and replace it with the new one.
What graphics card? Probably not, unless it was made for your specific model or brand, or if both the card and your laptop are MXM.
Strictly speaking, neither. It is an integrated graphics chipset. The chipset is mapped to the AGP bus, but is inferior to almost every actual AGP card in existence. it is disabled when an AGP card is installed.
Previous Reply:No. That model has integrated graphics only. No space to put in a replacement card.This is somewhat incorrect, you cannot replace a card that already doesn't exist in a laptop, but it is possible to add graphics via an external graphics card provided you have a thunderbolt port.Updated Answer:Yes, it is possible to install better graphics to a laptop. The previous answer-er was correct in saying you cannot install a graphics card in your model. But if you had a laptop with a thunderbolt connector, then you could buy a graphics card dock for about $200 USD.In all, I don't believe you are able to, because you don't have a thunderbolt connector in your laptop model.
Most graphics cards in laptops are integrated graphics, which means that the motherboard handles the graphics processing and which also means it isn't upgradeable or replaceable. Consult your instruction manual to see if your laptop is one of those that supports upgrades, and how this can be achieved.
It appears that its sporting the Nvidia ION GPU Chipset. :)
Sorry, but no. Most laptops you can't change the graphics card. The same goes for this laptop. The graphics card is soldered to the motherboard, there is no way of improving it.