I have a laptop (Packardbell PEW 91) and would like to exchange the NVIDIA GT 420M it contains for an NVIDIA GTX 460. Can I do this without problems or do I need a different power supply?
Apart from the RAM and hard drive, nothing can be exchanged on a notebook.
In a nutshell: This is not possible at all. There was once a so-called MXM standard for laptop graphics cards, but it has disappeared from the picture, and the laptop graphics cards were hardly available and completely overpriced even when the standard was still alive.
Swap the ram is now a thing of the past and if you see the development at Apple, the SSDs are next.
Yes, of course, but not the graphics card.
After all, Nvidia still has MaxQ Design.
Honestly, doesn't tell me that much, but according to various Google hits, it's just a more energy-efficient design for flat laptops - so what does that have to do with the ability to change the graphics card?
These are really cards that you can buy and trade like this.
Only in the rarest of cases, since the components that sit on the PC on a plug-in card, are usually soldered directly onto the main board, which is built exactly into the housing. Especially at PB you will not find one with changeable graphics, because you have chosen a brand in the lower price segment that is generally considered to be rather cheap.
And with laptops, the main thing is actually the charger for the battery. And if different services are offered, the smaller one is designed to either charge the battery or to power the computer, and the heavier, larger power pack can do both at the same time.
Hmm, do you have a source for that? For example, under https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/news/hardware/grafikkarten/43123-nvidia-erlaeutert-max-q-design-fuer-duennere-und-schnellere-notebooks-update.html I find no mention of this fact.
No, and if the laptop, like all PB models, is not prepared for it, it would be useless to buy a graphics card for a device with exchangeable graphics. Also, laptops with the better graphics you mentioned are also constructed from cooling.
However, all the parts mentioned are only a replacement in the event of damage against the same components, with the exception of the keyboard, which can be replaced by a different language variant, but is also technically identical.
Is known to me, there's a notebook in front of me for repair:-)
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