Question by : When buying laptop graphics cards bundled with a laptop purchase, what do you get?
I am buying an HP laptop, and chose an ATI Mobility HD 5370 graphics card as an option. The description says HDMI in it…does this mean the graphics card I chose will be integrated within the laptop, or is it something I have to plug into the HDMI port? Thanks.
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Answer by Fordry
There aren’t any normal laptops right now that have the ability to have a graphics card installed in them. the graphics chip is built right in to the system board. If you are doing a custom model, they have different boards with the different graphics chips and they put what you order in. The hdmi part just means it has an hdmi port that you can use to connect the laptop to a tv to display it on a tv. And just an fyi, lcd hdtv’s aren’t really any different than lcd computer monitors. So any 1080p lcd or plasma tv especially will have great resolution and perform really well as a computer monitor.
Edit – @William, have you ever opened up a laptop and seen how it is put together? Every single laptop from Dell, HP, Asus, Sony, Toshiba, etc……. has a system board that has the graphics chip built in, whether its a dedicated graphics chip with dedicated memory or an integrated graphics chip doesn’t matter, its still on the main system board. Integrated doesn’t have anything to do with being on the board, it means its built into the chipset instead of being a separate independant chip. There is no such thing as an expansion 3d graphics card in laptops except for a special setup Alienware tried to start a few years ago and a few crazy laptop models that are big enough that they actually house desktop cards in them.
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