Dell E1505 Video Card

Hey all this is my first Post. I purchased a dell E1505 Last Month and It absolutley awesom.
I have the 128mb ATI X1300 Video card in it. I want to know can I buy the 256mb ATI X1400 and put in it? I read where a guy had a E1705 and he upgraded his ATI X1400 card to a NVIDIA card and was just curious if it can be done with ours. Heres the link of his upgrade: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/349/1/

Dell E1505
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.60GHZ
120GB Hard Drive
2G RAM
15.5" Monitor with TruLife
128MB ATI Mobility X1300 Graphics Card
Windows Vista Home Premium
Bluetooth
Dell Wireless a/b/g With Netgear Router

 

The e1505 can only support up to the x1400. The e1705, as mentioned, can go from a low end x1300, up to the nVidia 7900GS.

 

http://impactcomputers.com/wf148.html

 

Welcome to NBReview - yes, you should be able to upgrade - your best bet is to call Dell and ask. Heard from some that going in and upgrading the GPU on your own might void the warranty?

 

$230 + maybe the risk of voiding warranty, is it worth it ? Have you looked at any benchmark comparisons?

From Wikipedia : Radeon R520

 

i wanna upgrade too, but is there any chance a go 7600 or even x1600 will work? not much difference in benchmark between x1300 and x1400

 

The specs may be similar, but performance wise, the x1400 kills the 1300, Benchmark scores almost double across the board, and games that the x1300 struggles with at the lowest possible settings will run quite well at medium settings, that said, for the money you would be better off saving up for a real gaming laptop, or better yet, apply the money towards building a dedicated gaming desktop.

 

No, as stated earlier in thes thread,and by myself at least 30 times in the last two months, you can only upgrade if you 1) have a dedicated card already, intel graphics cannot be upgraded, the system board is different and has no graphics slot, 2) you can only use dell branded cards that are available for your particular model ONLY, for the e1505 that would be the x1300,x1400,and GF7300, even if another card would fit, it will not have bios support and therefor will be useless, the only practical reason to swap out a notebook video card would be if you cannibalized a card from a dead or discarded system, or you knowingly bought a system with a bad card for little or no cost.

 

i bought my e1505 used and cheap, for me its not really worth it if i just replace it with x1400 since my M60 is so much better in games. still, i wish it can upgrade to a much better gpu.

 

Thanks for the replys guys...SO I can upgrade the the 1400. I think thats what ill do im not a gamer just want to help my Vista Expierence...

 

after i bought my e1505 used, i clean installed vista ultimate and it works fine with x1300, but if you want to waste money then go ahead, just my suggestion.

 

The general vista performance will be the same between the two cards, you'll get a gaming boost, thats all. I wouldnt do it, not much return on the investment, and if you botch the install,you might be looking at buying a new laptop anyway.

 

Vista works pretty good even with an integrated GMA950, that is like maybe 5x slower than X1300. Vista is not like a 3D game where you can change detail settings or ad FSAA, AF etc. , going for a high end card gives you nothing.

 

Coupled with the fact that the x1400 is far from high end, if you could find one for around $50 bucks, I'd say go for it, any higher and it just wouldnt be worth it, for a non gamer its really not worth it at all.

 

Thanks for the advice guys i think ill just save my $$$ and keep what i got since im not going to be doing any intence gaming

 

An upgrade to 2GB of ram WILL give you a nice performance gain in vista, I highly reccomend that as a priority upgrade.