hi there, I'm new to this kind of thing, but i was wondering if i could get some advice? I own a toshiba satellite l510 wit the following spec: Pentium dual 2.3GHz 4GB RAM 32 bit operating system and i'm looking for something similar to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher or ATI Radeon 4890 or higher cheers
Just to be clear, you are looking for a graphics card for your laptop...? External graphics cards are tough to come by.
@Epidemius5: Forget it, there is no such thing. Especially for the lowend notebooks with integrated graphics, or with discrete graphics on mainboard (the only two options your laptop has). You want better graphics ? Buy yourself a desktop PC, or a new laptop with a better graphics card.
I agree. I think the best you can go for is a Geforce 9400, if your laptop has Express card slot, and you use some serious hacking, to have make a Express card slot connector, with wires coming our to a PCI-E 8x (but really PCI-E 1x), and connect a Geforce 9400 to it. Oh and you'll need external power, so you'll have an external desktop PSU, which you need to hack up, and have the graphic card turn on before your laptop. So not worth it. Just get a desktop, or a new laptop. To be frank, laptop are NOT designed for gaming. Gaming laptops are simply not worth it. Expensive, huge, heavy, most of them are noisy, pathetic battery life, and the best you can play is the current game at high settings (not ultra) with an SLI card setup, on the demanding games. And expect to have trouble playing games down the line of 3 years with medium-low settings and low resolution. What I suggest, is to have a good desktop computer for gaming and intensive work. And have a nice business class system (mainly for the superior build quality, longer battery life, less to 0 junk, better after sale service (warranty, tech support, customer service, etc) and non glossy screen). Where on such system, you CAN play games on the go. Of course minimum/medium-low settings (if it has an Nvidia or AMD graphic card) (this is because they tend to not put gamer class graphic cards in them), but it's mostly a powerful system for performance on non-gaming tasks. (If it's just web surfing, then any laptop will do).
try pcspecialist, can get a custom built PC that will play games at a low setting for less than £400, they build everything for you too
