HP Pavilion x360 GPU problems.

[leeal]

I have a Graphics card named Intel(R) Integrated Graphics. Can the HP Pavilion's card be changed? I really want to play Subnautica...

[Rocket]

Assuming that is a laptop... I have a HP pavillion G6 laptop.

AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series
Intel HD Graphics 4000
i5-3210M CPU @ 2.5GHZ 2.5GHz
8 GB RAM

But in general no laptops cannot have thier graphics cards upgraded easily... and with that being said it would be costly and could cause even more problems than its worth. They are built to support the hardware in them and are not intended to be upgradable.

The only easy things to upgrade on a laptop are RAM and the harddrive.

To upgrade anything else requires soldering stuff and possibly destroying the whole thing in the process if the person doing it doesnt know what they are doing...

The only thing I ever did to my one laptop was getting my friend to solder in a new charging jack since the old one broke and made the laptop not useable.

Oh I've also taken my laptops apart and re thermal greased the chips so they wouldnt get as hot.

[leeal]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Assuming that is a laptop... I have a HP pavillion G6 laptop.

AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series
Intel HD Graphics 4000
i5-3210M CPU @ 2.5GHZ 2.5GHz
8 GB RAM

But in general no laptops cannot have thier graphics cards upgraded easily... and with that being said it would be costly and could cause even more problems than its worth. They are built to support the hardware in them and are not intended to be upgradable.

The only easy things to upgrade on a laptop are RAM and the harddrive.

To upgrade anything else requires soldering stuff and possibly destroying the whole thing in the process if the person doing it doesnt know what they are doing...

The only thing I ever did to my one laptop was getting my friend to solder in a new charging jack since the old one broke and made the laptop not useable.

Oh I've also taken my laptops apart and re thermal greased the chips so they wouldnt get as hot.

Thank you for your awnser. But if the IT technician CAN upgrade the GPU, what would you recommend for Subnautica?

[Rocket]

Well a quick search of "Upgrading laptop GPU" on google in general will give you this text.

"If you're willing to get your hands dirty, you could upgrade your laptop on the cheap. Well, relatively cheap. Outfitting an Alienware 17 with a newfangled Nvidia GTX 970M GPU will set you back $750—but that's still half as much as it would cost to buy a new model with the same graphics chip."

So like I said its costly to do... atleast to upgrade to new chips. Also you have to wonder how much power etc a cheap like that needs and will all the other hardware work with the chip you are trying to upgrade to. Which is where you would run into problems possibly or frying something on the motherboard while soldering a new chip in.

So in my opinion its never really worth upgrading stuff like this in a laptop there are to many variables that could go wrong.

I look at laptops as ... they are portable to do work or something on the move and offer some gaming depending on how much you spend. They will almost always never be upgradeable so when buying one you need to decide how much money you have to spend for what you want it to accomplish.

Way back when I bought my first laptop Samsung RF710 or something around $1000 it was actually cheaper or compareable to get it than it would have been to custom build a PC for the one game I wanted to play at the time. Which it also offered the ability to trasport it around easily for school work at the time.

The second laptop which I have now around $300-500 I spent I think... well it has a story behind it. A transport truck crashed into a river near me... sadly the person driving it died :(. Well crates of electronics ended up floating down river and many people were going out and helping themselves to the cargo...this was like 2 years ago or something. Which in a senerio like this the company will write it off as a loss. So I got this one cheap from a friend who had someone else give him a bunch of the damaged goods to sort through and repair.

In general if you want to game you really need a desktop computer which I've yet to build one myself due to lack of funds and no job atm...trying to find one. So there are some games in my steam library which I've bought on sale and have been unable to touch even though I bought them with the hope they may work or they will work when I actually get a nice computer.

So the only advice I could really give you is to custom build a desktop in time since they are easily upgradeable and are cheaper than buying pre made computers such as Alienware etc...(Not trying to put them down or anything... they have thier audience/consumers which benifit from buying pre built) Which a pre made computer such as that is more for the population that does not understand how to build thier own or just does not care and will buy the computer with the mark up on price (now you can upgrade pre built desktops obviously as well and sometimes with sales/referbished items they could be compareble to custom making your own).

Now if you need a laptop for the portability ensure you do the research for what you want to accomplish with it and buy accordingly since they are hard to upgrade or not upgradable (usually the case).

Finally with all that said I can't really recommend anything to you on upgrading your laptop. It would be better if you researched it yourself and most likely the outcome will be you can't upgrade it; especially cheaply.

So hopefully I helped you out. But sadly there is probably nothing you can really do to it.