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I have a dell inspiron 1545 laptop with an express card slot, I can play games on this laptop but movement within the game (world of warcraft mainly) is quite jerky (fps is extremely low), is there a graphics card available for this laptop that I could upgrade to?

Cath

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Answer #1

I had the same problem with WoW and my Inspiron 4100. After doing tons of research, I found out that Dell graphics cards are soldered to the motherboard and are therefore un-upgradeable. It pissed me off, so I went out and bought an ASUS ($300 less than the Dell and much better graphics card). Wish I had better news.

Answer #2

Aww thank you for that - I suspected as much from reading the other posts but didnt want to give in. I had a HP Compaq Presario before this with a nvidia card in it but the laptop went wrong within a few months and PC World replaced it with this Dell laptop ! I didn’t realise at the time that it was the graphics card and not the amount of memory that made the difference to the running of the game - I’ll know for the future though :(

Cath

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