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Can I replace my GPU?

kalebnorman

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Dec 13, 2012
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I know, I know.... Another one of these questions. I know that you can not replace GPU's in most laptops. I have a Samsung Series 7 700g7c laptop and I was just curious if you can change the laptop GPU? I know that you can in some laptops, how do you know if you can?
Thank you for the time and answers.
 
Most of the time, the answer is no. In some systems, you can change the card - even if it requires flashing the vBIOS and/or using a modded system BIOS.

I can't speak for Samsung systems specifically, but I'm leaning towards 'no'.
 
Most people that went out and purchased upgradeable gpu's in laptops' had their laptop go out of date and unsupported by the time they could have. Laptops are not a good option for upgrading