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User claims Gateway 7508GX has 128MB video memory.

post #1 of 11
9/5/05 at 5:10am
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http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...0&postcount=17 Anyone else have this notebook and can confirm?
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post #2 of 11
9/5/05 at 9:30am
The 6508 has 64mb. The 6510 has 128.
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post #3 of 11
9/5/05 at 2:41pm
yah looks like it's counting the hypermemory too. same with the 7510, 128 vram+128 HM
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post #4 of 11
9/5/05 at 5:24pm
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That's good news if true...
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post #5 of 11
9/6/05 at 4:20pm
i checked out the video memory spec in 2 bestbuy locations, and they both state 128. moreover, the system info inidcated system ram at 1 gig. from my personal experience, if a portion of system ram is being used by video (aka hypermemory), the system info would display the leftover amount, not the total. this makes me believe that the manufacturer's sticker is wrong. i got 2 conflicting opinions on the matter from the geeksquad. one said that hypermemory is permanently enabled in bios, thus resulting in 128 vram. the other geeksquad location stated that the sticker is incorrect, as x600 are not manufactured with 64 megs of vram.
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post #6 of 11
9/6/05 at 4:43pm
no HyperMemory doesnt work like that. it only grabs from system ram when needed, not lock it off.
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post #7 of 11
9/6/05 at 5:28pm
Basically, the card itself addresses up to 128MB RAM. If needed, the GPU can allocate up to 64MB additional RAM from system RAM. The difference is that unlike integrated video, the memory is pulled as needed, meaning that in regular day-to-day applications, the full 1GB is available for programs. The reason it is listed as a 128MB card is because ATI uses the maximum allocated memory in its identification routines.
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post #8 of 11
9/7/05 at 4:08am
so will games like BF2, doom 3, halflife play in high settings with this machine?
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post #9 of 11
9/7/05 at 5:24am
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Originally Posted by Bryan'sM505x
so will games like BF2, doom 3, halflife play in high settings with this machine?
barely
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post #10 of 11
9/7/05 at 10:30am
for 999 that is quite a steal if it can play those games in high settings
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post #11 of 11
9/11/05 at 6:02pm
I just checked dxdiag, and it shows 256MB with the Omega drivers.
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