Asus G50VT-A1 upgrade ?

[kingdom9214]

I see a few posts on how to upgrade my Asus g50vt-a1. Bottom line is my sons laptop plays skyrim and bf3 on the dead lowest at about 25-30 fps. I want to upgrade the laptop so the game is at least playable.

I see that I can upgrade my t9400 2.53ghz to the x9000 3ghz, how much of a performance difference would that make in those games. Also is there a big difference between the 9800m and the GTX 260m ? Would it be possible to put a GTX 280m in ?

Basically upgrading the CPU and GPU would cost me about $250, and I can regain some of the money by reselling the stock cpu/gpu. Either way that's still better then dropping $1000 on new laptop. All in all would these upgrades make Skyrim and BF3 playable, until I can afford to drop $1000 for a new laptop.

Thanks =)

[Michael@XoticPC]

I would highly suggest upgrading to something a bit higher than what you mentioned in order to suit your medium to high settings on games. With the GTX260m, you might get away with medium settings. But, I would go at least GTX560M to see a doable jump in performance.

Cheers!

[tijo]

I think the G50vt uses the reversed MXM connector that is proprietary to Asus, if that is the case, the best you could do is the GTX260m.