Satellite C660 - 28 d - improve the graphics

Bought this laptop for college work, I do a lot of work in 3D on the computer and only just realized the integrated graphics card is not powerful enough to cope. I was hoping to buy a new graphics card and slot in there, but I have been informed by Toshiba graphics card is soldered to the motherboard and so is not an option.

I was wondering if someone else has managed to do this otherwise? I know there are ways to have a desktop graphics card attached remote etc, but just to see if anyone knew a way that would work on this model of laptop.

Update graphics card is not supported.
I have no experience with the use of external graphics cards, but to be honest, I can't imagine that an external GPU would be the best solution.

These pieces are not cheap and I think if you really need a laptop with GPU stronger, then you can buy a laptop with integrated, strong (ATI or nVidia) GPU.

An external graphics chip makes a computer laptop less mobility friendly so why use a laptop (+ external GPU) If you could use a desktop PC in this case with GPU more powerful?

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