[Nomanor]

I have a Vaio A190 with Radeon 9700 64mb

I want a faster graphics card. Or atleast more video memory.

It is possible to buy a new Mobile video card and replace the old one ?

[skab]

A quick search does'nt look likely . Most laptops over a year old are onboard video, still a 9700 kicks over what most of us have.

[SB911]

Could i upgrade my 9600 Pro dedicated? It's 128mb, and not onboard as far as i know.

[alphasl]

Do a google search on your laptop model.

[ozzlo]

as long as it's not onboard i would say that the 128 meg version and the 64 meg version should be compatable but you pretty much got top of the line there buddy... to do better than mobility 9800 you would need pci express!

a mobility 9700 has only 4 pipes while the desktop version has 8, this has mislead many peope but the fact is that a mobility 9700 is no more than (and prolly a little less than) a 9600xt

a mobility 9800 has 8 pipes so this would make a big difference effectivly doubling theoretical performance. (actual results are a bit less than double but none the less impressive.

[whoever]

is ther anyway to open the pipes?

[enduro]

It was my understanding that the only way to upgrade to a new vidcard for lappies is to do it through your laptop manufacturer. Dell sells vidcard upgrades for their laptops but because the shape of each must be different it must prevent them from just selling them online on Newegg or something.

[The VTech]

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/modelp...EN&mdl=VGNA190

Here is the support page for you A190. Hope it helps.

[<<Spider>>]

I think the only thing you can do is upgrade the RAM to improve the video performance. The HD being at 4200RPM will still slow you down so it won't be much of a improvement but every small gain helps.

I don't think you can add on video memory without some major modding. But video memory does help much (even if you are able to find a way to add it on). For example the 128MB and 256MB 9800PRO have basically no difference in performance wise (same with other cards with same GPU). It really depend more on your GPU. The 9700 is fairly OK and I think is the best you can do on a lab top. The power supply in the labtops wont have the power to run the 9800 or upper as far as I know. Labtop is made to be compacted and have very limitted resources. Small powersupply, hard drive runing slow, low voltage CPUs, etc.

If you want good performance video, you'll have to get a desktop (or at lease a micro computer like the Shuttle).

[Slackfumasta]

Anybody know if the vid card in a 5160 can be changed to a radeon mobility with 128 mb of RAM?

[enduro]

You have the FX series in yours correct? If Dell doesn't sell it as a replacement part then the chances that it will work are really really slim