topic video card upgrade in PCs & Accessories

video card upgrade

ababa — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:16:26 GMT

Hi,
I have a VAIO FS415S with NVIDIA Geforce Go 6400 PCI Express 128 MB Turbocache.
I would like to know if is possible to change the video card for a better one. And more if possible, what can be upgraded/changed and what cannot.
Thank you.

Re: video card upgrade

Blencogo — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:34:31 GMT

Hi ababa and welcome to Club Vaio.

The graphics cards in all Sony laptops are soldered to the main board and are not economically upgradeable.

A handful of very large laptops on the market do have interchangeable cards but these are very rare and expensive!

You are really limited to additional RAM and perhaps a hard drive upgrade.

Re: video card upgrade

ababa — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:42:12 GMT

Thank you very much for your help. At least is it possible to get a new driver for it ? I tried different versions of forceware but only few of them are suitable to this type of graphhic card (actually I found only two). I searched on NVIDIA site but nothing. Even the original drivers were not available on the above mentioned site. I downloaded them from VAIO SUPPORT, etc.
Thank you again for your help.

Re: video card upgrade

Blencogo — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:26:50 GMT

You're very welcome ababa.

:smileygrin:

Re: video card upgrade

rgoggy — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:25:36 GMT

hi

i use http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ to get new nvidia drivers.
they mod the ini file that the installer recognizes the card right.

because in real, all nvidia drivers are a pack of drivers for all nvidia cards

Re: video card upgrade

ababa — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:13:51 GMT

Thank you !!
I will try the latest one.