Changing graphics cards.

darklord63 · 03-15-2010, 04:50 PM

Now that PR:ARMA 2 is out I think i need a new graphics card. First off what is the minimum graphics card I can use to replace my current one with to play ARMA 2 on all HIGH settings. Secondly and more important, can I even replace my graphics card? I'm not sure if it's possible to replace a graphics card on the laptop I'm using.
The Dell Online Store: Build Your System
I'm using a Dell studio 15, and have ATI mobility Radeon HD 3450. Also can anyone tell me where to find the new drivers for this card. I can't find them anywhere.

Thanks

[R-COM]SnipingCoward · 03-17-2010, 08:52 PM

You might have luck finding your drivers here: NVIDIA & Laptop News | Latest NVIDIA drivers and related news | laptopvideo2go.com
although this is mainly directed to wards nVidia cards there also are ATI drivers for notbooks from what I had seen.

Note: Replacing the video card (usually opening the notebook also) will void your warranty!

also after 1min of googling I found this: Possible to upgrade Studio 15 graphics card?

SocketMan · 03-18-2010, 07:57 PM

I am afraid that even the top-end card (5470) for that laptop is not enough to play arma2,
3850 (320 shaders/256bit memory) is the minimum recommended,and they're not
kidding about the minimum.

ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series GPU Specifications

181 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
64-bit DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
Shader Model 4.1
32-bit floating point texture filtering
Indexed cube map arrays
Independent blend modes per render target
Pixel coverage sample masking
Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
Gather4 texture fetching
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
40 stream processing units

************************************************** ***********************
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 GPU Specifications
292 million 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
80 Stream Processing Units
8 Texture Units
16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
4 Color ROP Units
GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11 support
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Programmable hardware tessellation unit
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency

ATI Mobility Radeonâ„¢ HD 5470 GPU Specifications

ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3400 Series GPU Specifications

As far as the laptops go in general -there is a (relatively) new technology called
XGP -which is basically a box with a GPU in it,but it is not widespread just yet.

ATI XGPâ„¢ Technology

YouTube - ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES 2010

boilerrat · 03-19-2010, 02:49 PM

Your best bet would to splurge on a desktop if you want to play ARMA2:PR.

PuffNStuff · 03-19-2010, 04:14 PM

go to ati.com, support, drivers.

03-15-2010, 04:50 PM	#1
darklord63 Join Date: Dec 2008 United States of America Posts: 387	Changing graphics cards. Now that PR:ARMA 2 is out I think i need a new graphics card. First off what is the minimum graphics card I can use to replace my current one with to play ARMA 2 on all HIGH settings. Secondly and more important, can I even replace my graphics card? I'm not sure if it's possible to replace a graphics card on the laptop I'm using. The Dell Online Store: Build Your System I'm using a Dell studio 15, and have ATI mobility Radeon HD 3450. Also can anyone tell me where to find the new drivers for this card. I can't find them anywhere. Thanks
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03-17-2010, 08:52 PM	#2
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03-18-2010, 07:57 PM	#3
SocketMan Join Date: Mar 2007 Canada Location: Vancouver,B.C. \| Golden Camel Land Posts: 1,724	Re: Changing graphics cards. I am afraid that even the top-end card (5470) for that laptop is not enough to play arma2, 3850 (320 shaders/256bit memory) is the minimum recommended,and they're not kidding about the minimum. ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series GPU Specifications 181 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface 64-bit DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support Shader Model 4.1 32-bit floating point texture filtering Indexed cube map arrays Independent blend modes per render target Pixel coverage sample masking Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders Gather4 texture fetching Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture 40 stream processing units ************************************************ ******************* ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 GPU Specifications 292 million 40nm transistors TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture 80 Stream Processing Units** 8 Texture Units 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units 4 Color ROP Units GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface DirectX® 11 support Shader Model 5.0 DirectCompute 11 Programmable hardware tessellation unit Accelerated multi-threading HDR texture compression Order-independent transparency ATI Mobility Radeonâ„¢ HD 5470 GPU Specifications ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3400 Series GPU Specifications As far as the laptops go in general -there is a (relatively) new technology called XGP -which is basically a box with a GPU in it,but it is not widespread just yet. ATI XGPâ„¢ Technology YouTube - ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES 2010

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