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    expansion slots for HP Pavilion dv6810us

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Amrak, Jul 17, 2008.

  1. Amrak

    Amrak Notebook Enthusiast

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    now i dont know if this is in the right fourm but ill ask anyways.

    im buying a laptop and i cant find information anywhere on weather or not it has expansion slots. and how many it has.

    the lap top is as follows.
    HP Pavilion dv6810us
    AMD Turion 64 X2 2ghz
    3gb ram
    160gb hard drive 5400rpm
    15.4in screen
    NVIDIA GeForce 7150M
    1071mb shared video memory

    i want to put in a graphics card. but i don't know weather or not it has any expansion slots.
    oh and sry for the misspellings i suck at spelling.
    plz help.
     
    Amrak, Jul 17, 2008
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    Amrak Notebook Enthusiast

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    Amrak, Jul 17, 2008
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    Amrak Notebook Enthusiast

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    oh i also forgot to ask 1 thing.
    if there are no expansion slots is there anything extra like the bluethooth that i can remove to have 1 extra expansion slot.
     
    Amrak, Jul 17, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    You are smart, for researching here first. Finding out if you can overclock and if yours supports blu-ray.
    Well now that I see the specs, I dont think the integrated 7150 from nvidia can play blu-ray, heck it may have trouble with dvd video. The 7150 is not exactly a powerful card, it is slower than the intel integrated ones.

    You cannot upgrade the graphics card in that hp. Actually no consumer hp laptop has an upgradeable gpu, only their workstation ones can be upgraded (gpu wise)

    Otherwise teh specs are decent for ~$600

    That laptop should have at least 1 mini pcie port, which the wireless card occupies. You can upgrade the wireless card to support both wireless and bluetooth with a wireless combo card.
    You cannot put a graphics card into the mini pcie port. Only small tv tuners, wireless and turbo memory modules can be used in there.

    I would look elsewhere and try to get something which has a better graphics card.
    I dont know if you are against buying new, but their are great deals in the buy and sell section here on nbr, and you can get more power and more performance with $600.

    2900th post :D

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jul 17, 2008
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  5. jim2029

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    I have this laptop and it plays DVDs just fine with NO Problems. Granted I ahve the Video Memory maxed out in the BIOS... But with 3gb system ram i can do it.
     
    jim2029, Dec 21, 2008
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