R40e increasing the shared video memory

[Pookster]

Dear All,

I have recently upgraded my thinkpad R40e, though elements failing, I have installed a 120gig seagate hard drive, 1gig of ram and a 16x optical dvd/rw drive.

I am very happy with my thinkpad and dont really want to change it due to all the upgrades but is there any way I can increase the shared video memory from 16 to say 32 or 64mb because I tend to do lots of work in Photoshop and my graphics card can't cut the mustard so to speak.

Please advise,

Warren

[crazyfrog]

Maybe you need to change a mother board. That is the only way I can suggest.

[dsigma6]

can't be done.

[christopher_wolf]

Dear All,

I have recently upgraded my thinkpad R40e, though elements failing, I have installed a 120gig seagate hard drive, 1gig of ram and a 16x optical dvd/rw drive.

I am very happy with my thinkpad and dont really want to change it due to all the upgrades but is there any way I can increase the shared video memory from 16 to say 32 or 64mb because I tend to do lots of work in Photoshop and my graphics card can't cut the mustard so to speak.

Please advise,

Warren

Since when did Photoshop use VRAM? I have never seen it use VRAM nor heard of it requiring that much. Rather, more RAM is the ticket as well as a large and snappy HDD + a very solid CPU as these are the things that Photoshop cares the most about.

Also, you cannot force it to use more shared memory easily at all; that is the one upgrade that can easily bring about a mobo upgrade should you want it badly enough.

[msakaji]

Just out of interest, is it actually even possible to obtain a new/different motherboard for a given thinkpad model?

Like, can I really go out there and find a motherboard for an R40e that, say, has Intel GMA instead of an ATi 330 IGP?