Which video cards are compatible with an hp g62-228cl notebook?

I just bought a laptop and want to upgrade the graphics, I had an extra nvidia geforce 8800 but It doesn't look like it will fit. What are my other options for upgrading my graphics?|||You have NO practical options to upgrade graphics. You need a new notebook.



There were talks of "external video card" a while back, but they cost too much ($200, NOT including the video card itself), and there's not enough bandwidth through ExpressPort or any other port you have on a notebook, to allow the video card to run at better than half-speed, if even that high. There are some that will plug into USB port, but that's just for adding one more external display, worthless for gaming.



Some VERY high-end notebooks or laptops, like HP/Voodoo Envy, or Alienware Area51m, may have special video "modules" built for that specific model that may be upgradeable, but it would be specific to that model series, and they cost a LOT.



So, there you go.



EDIT: I find amusement at your "willful ignorance". Just because you think it's possible does not make it possible. So where does that leave your friends?

1) They are lying about their upgrades to laptops; or...

2) You misunderstood them (they upgraded software, or their desktop), or;

3) you're trolling us

Are you by any chance related to the guy who insist that iPhone 4 can be reprogrammed to work on CDMA networks? I think his question is still around here somewhere...



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Kasey C, PC guru since Apple II days

Hard work pays off later. Laziness pays off now.|||Oh God. I can't believe some of the crap I read on this site. You cannot stuff a desktop card into a laptop. How in the HELL could you even think that was possible??



Most laptops don't have upgradable video cards, and those that do have some pretty heavy limitations on what you can do as they have to work within certain thermal and power limits. That and the proper MXM cards are expensive and difficult to find.



Enjoy your smug, kiddo. The rest of us will just keep laughing at your ignorance. The fact that you even thought that a desktop 8800GT would somehow fit in a laptop is still hilarious.