jkasapi Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I have just bought a new laptop which has everything i need apart from the graphics card which i dont think is great, its a neNVIDIA GeForce Go 7150, and in the vista windows experience it has been given a 2.6. All i want to know is if this graphics card could handle recent games, even something like the sims2 for instance. And i woud also like to know if you can upgrade the graphics card on a laptop? or anyway of making it better. Any help would be great thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I believe that the GeForce Go 7150 is integrated graphics - so you can't update it.Just to confirm this - what is the make/model of the laptop ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkasapi Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I believe that the GeForce Go 7150 is integrated graphics - so you can't update it.Just to confirm this - what is the make/model of the laptop ?its a HP Pavilion DV6552EA and i dont think it is an intergrated one, didnt say when i bought it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 That model has NVIDIA GeForce 7150M graphics - "Up to 559MB" - see specs belowas sold by Play.com http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3439329/Hewl...op/Product.htmlHewlett Packards own spec for it :-http://h41306.www4.hp.com/itemDetails?SID=...amp;sku=GT374EAbased on that http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobogpu_nb_7series.html - appears to confirm that it is a chip - rather than a card.Fused together on a single chip, GeForce 7000M Series GPUs and nForce 600M Series MCPs , the next wave of notebook motherboard GPUs deliver higher performance, proven compatibility, and longer battery life so that you can enjoy today's popular multimedia with incredible effects. Available Solutions NVIDIA GeForce 7150M and NVIDIA nForce 630M NVIDIA GeForce 7000M and NVIDIA nForce 610M For info :-GPU = Graphics ProcessorMCP = Media and Communications Processor (MCP) = laptop equivalent of a Southbridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkasapi Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 That model has NVIDIA GeForce 7150M graphics - "Up to 559MB" - see specs belowas sold by Play.com http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3439329/Hewl...op/Product.htmlHewlett Packards own spec for it :-http://h41306.www4.hp.com/itemDetails?SID=...amp;sku=GT374EAbased on that http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobogpu_nb_7series.html - appears to confirm that it is a chip - rather than a card.Fused together on a single chip, GeForce 7000M Series GPUs and nForce 600M Series MCPs , the next wave of notebook motherboard GPUs deliver higher performance, proven compatibility, and longer battery life so that you can enjoy today's popular multimedia with incredible effects. Available Solutions NVIDIA GeForce 7150M and NVIDIA nForce 630M NVIDIA GeForce 7000M and NVIDIA nForce 610M For info :-GPU = Graphics ProcessorMCP = Media and Communications Processor (MCP) = laptop equivalent of a SouthbridgeSo is it the amount of mb that determines what games it can handle? And is it being a chip a good thing or a bad thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 It takes its video memory from your 2 GB of system RAM.You can't upgrade chips like you can a dedicated graphics card.The games you play will have their minimum/recommended graphics requirements on the box. The graphics processor speed is what usually restricts you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkasapi Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 It takes its video memory from your 2 GB of system RAM.You can't upgrade chips like you can a dedicated graphics card.The games you play will have their minimum/recommended graphics requirements on the box. The graphics processor speed is what usually restricts you.ok thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Re. your Sims2 question - it should play that with no problems :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkasapi Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Re. your Sims2 question - it should play that with no problems :)ok hope so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 As far as I can tell, the latest nVidia Vista graphics drivers for it will be either (32bit) :-http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_162.22.htmlor (64bit) :-http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_162.22.htmldepending on your O/S version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkasapi Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 As far as I can tell, the latest nVidia Vista graphics drivers for it will be either (32bit) :-http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_162.22.htmlor (64bit) :-http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_162.22.htmldepending on your O/S versionim not sure what o/s is but on he laptop it says its a 32 bit. What do the drivers do then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I would suggest downloading the driver from HP rather than nVidia. This ensures it is for your laptop, and not just the chipset on which your card is based.http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...710&lang=en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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