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Upgrading Graphics Card on zd8000? can i?

post #1 of 4
11/14/05 at 6:44pm
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Alright, by the looks of it the zd8000 is outstanding for its price (actually theres a 200 dollar deal on now). With 3.4 650 p4 and 2 gigs of ram and a 60 gig 7200 rpm drive i will be happy... hopefully it won't be loud and ruin my music recording. Anyway i would be doing lots of photoshoping and maya work so i was wondering if i could umm... upgrade that interesting little graphics card. would i be able to up to a nvidia go 7800gtx? that would be very very nice. If i can't, and if u guys wouldn't recomend that card for ps/maya then i might try buying a quadro go fx 1400 for it? i duno what the slots are and everything. Other than that i found a model for similar pricing from rockdirect.com that had a ati x800xt pe (doesn't look to shabby) and similar card. Now for similating particle explosions using fluid effects i do actually need a decent gc. anyhow-thanks in advance. Take note i looked at the dell precision m70 and (well hate dell) it looks over priced.
thanks so very much,
phishfly
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post #2 of 4
11/14/05 at 9:57pm
Sorry to burst your bubble but post-purchase upgrade options for the zd8000 are non-existant in terms of graphic solutions.

The best offering of the zd8000 is the X600. Judging by your line of work, I would suggest you look at the business class of laptops HP makes.
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post #3 of 4
11/15/05 at 1:01pm
Yeah you cant upgrade the graphics card... There are 3 options...

X300 (128MB)
X600 (128MB)
X600 (256MB)


Also i agree with Admlam, i would go with a business class laptop that HP makes...
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post #4 of 4
11/26/05 at 11:55pm
I have the x600 (256) and using Omega drivers. Now that I added a soundcard I can play HL2, Doom 3 and UT04 with no issues. The x600 is plenty for photoshop.
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