Any way to upgrade vid card on zd8000?

Yeah if HP comes out with a newer version ZD8000 with a newer video card then replace the motherboard. I sold my ZD7000 and bought a Sager 5720 with user upgradable video card.

So, is the video card soldered to the motherboard on the vd8000's too? I was hoping to be able to upgrade mine as well...

Yeah I believe the ZD8000's are the same as ZD7000's they are part of the MoBo.

As far as I know HP and Compaq's Notebooks can't have any upgrade but RAM and HDD. Some of them can have a CPU upgrade though.

Aw I was just going to ask this question. I'll research some more to see if it's possible. I have a Presario v2000.

I think it's possible. I have the Presario x6000 with the x600 256mb graphics card. I know someone who can unsolder the graphics card for me and I was thinking about getting the Geforce go 7800 GTX when the price drops a bit off of dell's website http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?sku=XPSG2GU&c=us&l=en&cs=19&category_id=6328&first=true&page=pr oductlisting.aspx"][/url]

I just don't know if it will fit. I think it should, shouldn't it?

I'm sure the form factor is different in regards to what the manufactures that use removable modules in comparison to the ones that are part of the mobo. If you want a 7800 somewhat cheap check out this thread.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...highlight=7800
Titled: How I ordered a 7800gtx go for $259.68

it wont fit... nice try though... besides your bios will not recognize the card, your powersupply will not be right for it, it wont physically fit, and of course there is the heat... it will cook your laptop.

even if you could unsolder your current card you couldnt replace it.... sucks but thats how it goes...

Yup!

For some reason my computer is getting really shity performance lately. It takes ten minutes to boot up windows xp and I ran 3D marks and my computer got a score of 623. Here are my specs
Processor Intel Pentium 4 3392MHz
Display Card ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
Memory 1024MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Hard disk 40GB 4200rpm
Free Disk Space 16.2GB
Display Card Memory 256MB
Display Driver Version Omega 3.8.205
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive CD/DVD
Sound Card Creative SB Audigy 2

Does anyone now why its running so bad?

Every time I try to auto overclock my gpu my screen turns black and the system freezes up. I just wish there was a way to change the graphics card.

i talked to 2 different techs on the phone at hp in the last week about the whole upgradable videocard thing and both told me that they were "user upgradable" i specifically asked that cause i am tossing around which laptop to order between the zd 8000 with a x600 w/256 megs graphics and the dv 4000 with the x700 w/128 megs they both said that the cards were pci express cards and that if you have experience changing out videocards they installing the new card should be no problem so you might wanna give them a call and see if they could ship you a new one and try it out. btw im going with the dv 4000 just in case they were wrong.

Hard disk 40GB 4200rpm

That's probably a possible cause of the slow performance.. and.. a new fresh installation helps probably..
Why are you overclocking your videocard, by the way?

so bottom line, the zd8000's video card can be upgraded?

HP has a history of the gpu's being integrated into the motherboard.

There are very few laptops on the market that can be "upgraded'... very few. Unless you pay big $$$$

Dell 1705 comes to mind (if ordered with anything other that the base integrated gpu)... and the ONLY reason it can accept an "Upgraded" gpu is because the Dell XPS 1710 uses the same motherboard, and housing... be aware that swapping the 1710 gpu into a 1705 will require a new power supply, since the 7900gtx from the 1710 requires more "juice".

Getting back to HP... There has been a report of (1) of the high-end $$$$ HP business nx9420/nw9440 models having a "replaceable" gpu... removeable.... but NO reports that any kind of swap or upgrade has been made.

http://www.mxm-upgrade.com/index.html

Not surpising as there is NO standard for laptop gpu's... it may say MXM, or PCI? in the spec's etc, but the mfg's have NOT standardized the pins, the size, shape of the gpu, or having put standards in place in any large degree that will allow the use of a gpu from one mfg to another.... It's not like desktop video cards... It's all that proprietary el-crap-ola stuff when it comes to laptops...

The mfg's of the gpu's put id strings in, and the bios will refuse a card that is not spec's to work in that machine... Besides that there are voltage and cooling issues... the card pulling more voltage... and the cooling system not being big enough for the "new" gpu.


I'd suggest you go to

HP PartSurfer http://www.partsurfer.hp.com/cgi-bin/spi/main


and see if a seperate gpu is shown.... addtionally you should go to www.HP.com and download a copy of the MAINTANCE and SERVICE GUIDE for your unit..... and look in it to see if the gpu is showing as a seperate part.


I can pretty much bet it isn't....

No i was told it is soldiered to the bored and the chip set has to be changed to with the bios .The only thing that  can be changed is the CPU memory and the hard drive. Even if you soldiered the new on in place it will fr-eek out .?? correct me if I'm wrong that's what i was told

you are correct

cheers ...