Thread: laptop video cards - Best Buy Forum

and read i believe it was the 3rd post i made, btw nothing wrong with possibly getting some freebies on a gift card

BB is not the place where computer builders would normally go for computer parts.

OK.... so what parts? I'm being serious because I really do want to custom build one.

To my knowledge Best Buy does not sell them for laptops. I know that we carry many flavors for desktop but I am pretty sure there are none for laptops.   Jeremy B Customer Support Specialist Store 13   The opinions in this topic are my own and my own only. They do not reflect the thoughts or opinions of Best Buy.

If you physically built your laptop (awesome, congrats on that undertaking, almost no one goes that way) then you know your system better than any of us and know what will work. If it was a custom build where you went to a store, or online retailer, and gave the specs you wanted and they built it then it's not always upgradeable. I know a lot of Alienware and ibuypower notebooks will just switch to a higher level motherboard, not put a...

  hyzzle wrote: I built my system, I know there is an upgradable video in it because of 2 reasons: 1. I built my system 2. I physically put an ATI radeon mobilty 4500 series card in it. 3. I built my system   No need to argue and tell me that most, some, or no laptops come with an upgradable video, I'm not worried about most other laptops. Laptops that come from a factory are built to make the factory money. If you cant upgrade it then...

Even most of the "barebones" laptop systems nowadays (catering towards DIY builders) no longer have upgradable video cards.   For example, with the "barebones" version of the MSI GT627/628 series, it only has one video card option that is nonupgradable.  Nearly everything else is.

Why did you build a laptop? You wasted money. And why did you install "addware" and spyware onto it?