do some laptops made in the past couple of years come with open agp card slot for graphics?
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Very few laptops has option to upgrade graphics card. Majority has everything integrated on the main board (m/b). And you are right - there is some difference if m/b has graphic chip with own memory chips on it, or it is the chipset with shared memory for graphics. Therefore, graphic card upgrade most often means new m/b, that is almost equal to new laptop.
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Buy an internal graphics card, but make sure that you have the right slot type. There are two types, AGP and PCI Express. AGP is older, but is still around, where as PCI Express is newer and faster. If you are buying and ATI card, I would personally recomend buying ATI brand cards, but if you wish to purchase an nVidia card, since they don't make their own cards, only the chips, I would do online research to find the best manufactur (spelling?) of the graphics card.
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If it is recent one (Pentium+)\nIt has both\n\nFor description see links
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I think it means a 2D/3D video graphics card installed in the AGP port of your computer.  You can ask your computer dealer about this.
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You can't upgrade the graphics in this particular laptop. Very few notebooks have upgradable graphics cards.
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Tigerdirect is good for barebones systems to start with or go with maybe buy.com... They usually have good deals. Make sure the board is PCI-E capable for the latest graphics cards... AGP is going away.
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It's a new standard coming out right now for computers. There's PCI-E x1 and x16. Both slots differ in size with the x16 one being longer. The latter is quickly replacing AGP8x as the slot of chouce for newer videocards thanks to the really fast transfer rate
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Nope.  This is like putting a square peg in a round hole. \n\nLook for a PCI video card.\n\nIf you get a new motherboard that has a AGP slot, make sure that you know what you are looking at.   The old AGP boards and old AGP slots are different than the new 4X and 8X AGP slots.   Again, it's like Apples and Oranges.
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AGP-Video card is the hardware board, supports to monitor device. Without AGP there is no out device for monitor.\n\nMore you can saw by picture based examples on below mentioned sites.
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Here's the best deal in AGP video cards at the moment: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102666  It will play any game out right now, including F.E.A.R., the game that makes most video cards cringe, at 1280x1024 resolution.  It will play almost any other new game out at that resolution or higher, with the "eye candy" turned up pretty far. Eye candy meaning full-screen Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering (both of which make a considerable difference in how games look.\nI know, I bought one recently, and couldn't be happier.\n\nHere's the best deal I could find on a 6600GT, which isn't as fast as the X1600 Pro, if you're using AA and AF (the eye candy): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133137
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Well, what model is your computer and how old is it.  That will depend on what kind of graphics card you can install in it.  If you just got the computer it most likely has only a PCIe slot.  If it is even one year old then it probably has an AGP slot.  Also, the lower end Dell computers used to not include even an AGP slot so it depends on what model it is.\n\nMy favorite card right around the sub $250 is the Radeon X800XL best performance per price ratio, it is even a favorite over at Cnet.  But I will warn you if you don't have at least a 300W power supply in your computer you may not be able to use it.  But that's okay, another favorite of mine is the Geforce 6600GT but it only comes in a 128MB version.\n\nBut you really need to check your computer, either in the manual or if you have the original specs and see if it has either an AGP 8X/4X slot or PCIe x16 slot and that will determine which version of the card you should get because most video cards now come in both versions.\n\nFor benchmarks on the X800XL see Tomshardware, http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/28/don/page7.html\n\nand for the 6600GT see, http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/04/04/good_3d_performance_at_a_middling_price/page29.html\n\nfor Cnet's review of the X800XL see, http://reviews.cnet.com/ATI_Radeon_X800_XL_PCIE_256MB/4505-8902_7-31320650.html?tag=tpr
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NO. you can't buy any external videocards for laptops.\n\n1.they consume too much power.\n2.the usb 2.0 doesn't have enough bandwidth for video processing\n3.unpractical. the whole point of a laptop is portability.
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it's no more worth to buy an agp graphics card, wait with the purchase. the intel conroe cpu is coming soon (around july 06). then do a full upgrade with a new mainboard with conroe cpu and pci express graphics card.\nkeep in mind that the conroe even beats an amd 64 fx-60.
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Depending on where and how you will be using the laptop, it will determine which graphics card to get. I'm assuming that this is a desktop replacement, so you probably don't need something that conserves energy.\n\nThis article should get you started:\nhttp://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2526
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I'd recommend you attach a AGP card of arounfd 256MB, something like NVidia
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You can always make G-card upgrades, most most likey your computer uses PCI but check the manual.
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The biggest issue I've seen with Video card compatability is the user being sold AGP cards when they dont have AGP slots. This can become very frustrating. Make sure you know what format card you need ahead of time.\n\nAs for software compatibility, XP can handle pretty much everything you toss at it, unless the card is extremely old. Even if you have an older card, odds are that the company who made it has created drivers that are publically available that will work on the operating system of your choice. If you are buying a card new off the shelf, just make sure you read the Minimum Requirements tab on the side of the box.\n\nAs for most boards having an AGP slot in the last 3 years, that is COMPLETELY untrue. I know for a fact that Dell computers use boards that never have AGP slots. Do not assume, open up your computer and take a look.