Finding the Graphics card Info.....

Pixie28

Uh hummmmm.....Please excuse the probable stupidity of this question, but I am currently selling a Laptop on Ebay and a potential buyer has asked me what the size of the Graphics card is.

I have serached through all the manuals etc but cannot find any indication. I won the laptop, and have never switched it on. Is there anything I should be looking for on/around the laptop (ie a little sticker) that would indicate the size/type of the graphics card?:o

MercilessKiller

It will either be 64mb or 128mb and made by ATI or Nvidia. Should be an ATI or Nvidia sticker on with the model too

If not, you need a pc diagnostics tool which would tell you.. There's one by SiSoftware called Sandra. The evaluation version would tell you I believe.!

custardy

control panel>performance & maintenence>system info>hardware>device manager

should list the GF card model there

there is a shortcut to device manager but cant remember

MercilessKiller

Custardy is right, though with laptop cards, there are 2 versions of most models with different amounts of memory on the chip (i.e 64 megs or 128megs). Device manager will only tell you the model like an Nvidia, but not the RAM on the chip

Pixie28

Thanks peeps....no way to find out without switching it on though? (I'm not lazy, its just that it is all boxed and listed as Brand New, never operated ) I have looked up the same model on the net which come up with -
Graphics Chipset : Intel GMA 950


Relevant?

bigfishman

that would be it. Unless you have an upgraded one in yours which sometimes happens but then it would have a sticker on it showing it off.

MercilessKiller

With laptop's you get the option of upgrading the graphics card and various other optional extra's. If you won it, it may be basic, but it may have an upgraded graphics card.

Either way the Intel GMA 950 is indeed a laptop graphics card. Though that doesn't specify the memory I suppose. Didn't you get a specification of the laptop before or after you won it?

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/index.htm

That would do for your buyer