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Video Upgrade via Docking Station

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vox87

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I have a DELL Latitude C840 with a GeForce4 440 Go. The other day, I came across a docking station (c/dock) that has two PCI slots in it.

I'm curious to know, if upgrading to a GeForce FX 5500 would be much of an improvement vs the GeForce4 440 Go card? I'm assuming that putting a 5500 in or another video card (PCI) would work?

I think the 5500 is the only available PCI card on the market. I mean the most powerful gaming PCI card?

I've seen other brands, like IBM, that allow you to add AGP or PCI-E cards. That would be nice but, I'm not sure, if there's a solution for my C840, like that, since its about 3 years old.

But, the main goal is to just squeeze a bit more video power out of it, for gaming, when at home. HL2, WoW, BF2..etc..

A couple of cards...

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=326018

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=322736
 
First of all, I dont think those are full fledged PCI slots, and if they are, I dont think it will be that much of an improvement because they still have very little bandwith to work with (from the dock to the laptop thru some sort of usb or other connection). But dont hold me to this, if anyone else has some input about it please do so.

And also, there is a 6200 in pci form, look around on the forums, there have been many threads around asking what is the best pci card.
 
I've seen some people do it with ibm notebooks but I'm not sure on how good it works.
 
A frined has a cpx (dell) in a c/dock and dropped in a 9600 series pci card (I think that it is 9600 series anyway - it works very well.

It has allowed him to play WOW at work on a crappy laptop over UMTS
 
Neat idea, give it a test run! And the 5500 is def a step up from the 440 but i would go for a 6200
 
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