t60 ThinkPad advanced Docking station video card upgrade

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t60 ThinkPad advanced Docking station video card upgrade

#1 Post by llabrum » Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:39 pm

hi iv bin told my t60 video card cant be upgraded to somthing more powerful and that i should get a docking station wich has a PCI Express Slot!!
what graphics card do you recomend for playing upto date games and that will fit into the docking station as i was told its a small slot???


any advice would be helpfull

liam :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Re: t60 ThinkPad advanced Docking station video card upgrade

#2 Post by dr_st » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:24 am

For playing up-to-date games, I would recommend that you forget forever the idea of playing them on your T60, and either invest in a normal desktop, or buy a modern laptop with a powerful graphics card (T500 with HD3650 and above).

If you don't limit yourself to Thinkpads, your options are suddenly expanded greatly, and you can get very powerful gaming notebooks for cheap.

No card that would fit into the dock slot would be any good for modern games, and even if you were to stick something powerful in it, don't forget that it's actually a PCI-E 1x slot, which would cripple the performance of high-end cards.
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Re: t60 ThinkPad advanced Docking station video card upgrade

#3 Post by llabrum » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:05 am

ok thanks for the heads up!!!!

liam :( :(

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