Can I manually install a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M in my Sony laptop if I buy the chip off the internet?

I wonder if I have a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M graphics from the Internet, could then purchase manually install it on my Sony laptop. Would this work? Oh, and incidentally, all these components dedicated or not intigrated.

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2 comments to Can I manually install a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M in my Sony laptop if I buy the chip off the internet?

  • spacedude4

    ONLY if it was an option when you originally bought your laptop. If not it probably won’t work. Laptops are not like desktops, parts are not parts.

  • Chickster

    No. The chip you refer to is on a circuit board with other integrated components. It’s an integrated circuit,(IC), You can see if Nvidia, has a Geforce 8600 style graphics card, to fit your Sony laptop.