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Ok first off, Lets get this out of the way, Yes, I am insane. Now that that is over.

 

I have a asus k55a, I am fucking sick of it, It has a i5-3210m, A low end i5, but still a i5, The problem with it? It has no fucking gpu, And it does not support a dedicated gpu, So im asking something simple, Is there a motherboard that i could go and replace mine with that supports FCPGA988 that has a pci-e slot for a gtx 750 or gt 740 or a mobile gpu slot.

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you're better off building a PC or buying a laptop with discrete graphics

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you're better off building a PC or buying a laptop with discrete graphics

already have a pc, Quite a nice one too, But i want something to take in the car and places i dont have room for a monitor, keyboard and mouse, the reason i thought of trying to get a new mobo is because i figured i could save money and just spend ~500 on this one

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Ok first off, Lets get this out of the way, Yes, I am insane. Now that that is over.

 

I have a asus k55a, I am fucking sick of it, It has a i5-3210m, A low end i5, but still a i5, The problem with it? It has no fucking gpu, And it does not support a dedicated gpu, So im asking something simple, Is there a motherboard that i could go and replace mine with that supports FCPGA988 that has a pci-e slot for a gtx 750 or gt 740 or a mobile gpu slot.

Unfortunately even if you could find a motherboard with the right specs and whatnot, it wouldn't physically fit into the laptop body. The motherboard is bound to be designed differently to fit in another model laptop.

Basically, when you buy a laptop expect it to stay that way until it dies, with the exception of RAM and SSD upgrades.

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Ok first off, Lets get this out of the way, Yes, I am insane. Now that that is over.

 

I have a asus k55a, I am fucking sick of it, It has a i5-3210m, A low end i5, but still a i5, The problem with it? It has no fucking gpu, And it does not support a dedicated gpu, So im asking something simple, Is there a motherboard that i could go and replace mine with that supports FCPGA988 that has a pci-e slot for a gtx 750 or gt 740 or a mobile gpu slot.

i uppgrade laptops all time i get old ones and put new parts in them not to the point there game worthy but i mean im upgrading cheap cheap laptops to have decent performance to surf web and stuff but yes it is possible to do 

 

i replaced a acer expire motherboard with another acer expire board that had a gpu slot but u will have to find a model of ur laptop that has gpu support or it wont fit in so if they didnt make one ur screwed there but cpu and ram upgrade is easy as piss

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i uppgrade laptops all time i get old ones and put new parts in them not to the point there game worthy but i mean im upgrading cheap cheap laptops to have decent performance to surf web and stuff but yes it is possible to do 

 

i replaced a acer expire motherboard with another acer expire board that had a gpu slot but u will have to find a model of ur laptop that has gpu support or it wont fit in so if they didnt make one ur screwed there but cpu and ram upgrade is easy as piss

i know they made more than 1 model of k55a, maybe they have one with a dedicated gpu slot, I wonder if its at all possible to fit a thin-mini-itx mobo in there

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