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New 6800 video card of 1 gig of mem???

post #1 of 52
2/19/06 at 10:44pm
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I want to upgrade my 9300. Should I get the nvidia 6800 video card, have ati 300 now, for my lappy or upgrade my mem to 1 gig, have 512 now. I can only afford one or the other now.

Thanks for your input.
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post #2 of 52
2/19/06 at 10:49pm
It depends if you game or multi-task more.
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post #3 of 52
2/19/06 at 10:55pm
If you're into games such as farcry, doom3, hl2 and the like,then, definitely, I'll do the 6800 first. Note that to upgrade your memory to 1 gig won't be that much if you look around. Ideally, upgrade video card and memory at the same time.
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post #4 of 52
2/19/06 at 11:43pm
If you want to play games, get the 6800. Otherwise, get the memory.
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post #5 of 52
2/19/06 at 11:56pm
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O yea...I will be doing some gaming on it. But I also use lightwave 3D and thought the ram would help with the rendering and some processing. I wonder if the wireless connection will be an issue with gaming?
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post #6 of 52
2/19/06 at 11:57pm
You wont have a problem with internet gaming, the light thing is a whole other issue...
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post #7 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:03am
IMHO I would go for the RAM for now. Basically I think the X300 is OK for games. Have you tried overclocking it? I was able to improve mine drastically as it seems they are pretty overclockable.

Also, another very important issue I came about.

If you need battery power, getting the 6800 willl drastically reduce the battery power. I can get 4 hours without powerplay on and about 6 with it on. Powerplay is a power saving feature initiated if you want when running on power. I have looked around, and battery power on a 6800 or 7800 are MAX 3 hours...
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post #8 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:06am
About battery power.
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post #9 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:09am
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Any links or ideas on how to overclock the ati???
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post #10 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:12am
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Originally Posted by Luckyfishbone
Any links or ideas on how to overclock the ati???
Yes, I would personally uninstall the dell drivers, install omega ati drivers (which now work on notebooks too) which comes w/ ATi Tray tools (not to be confused w/ ATiTool) which among many other cool features, like a complete replacing of the often annoying CatalystControlPanel (CCC), also includes overclocking. It is what I use. You can even overclock to the point where you precisely will not get any artifacts because it has an artifact scanner. (usually seen when you overclock too high)
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post #11 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:13am
wish I could game on a x300(isnt that like a 9700pro?)
get the card then the ram.
both will help out alot but obvious the card would help out alot more.
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post #12 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:19am
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Originally Posted by ca1n
wish I could game on a x300(isnt that like a 9700pro?)
get the card then the ram.
both will help out alot but obvious the card would help out alot more.
The x300 stock is actually below the 9600pro...probably comparable to a 9200 pro?

Anyway, according to ATi Tray Tools benchmark, I've gotten my X300 from under 9600pro (~1500 points) to greater than a 9600 pro (~2400).
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post #13 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:31am
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Originally Posted by Flav_cool
The x300 stock is actually below the 9600pro...probably comparable to a 9200 pro?

Anyway, according to ATi Tray Tools benchmark, I've gotten my X300 from under 9600pro (~1500 points) to greater than a 9600 pro (~2400).
Wow, that's a huge improvement
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post #14 of 52
2/20/06 at 12:47am
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Originally Posted by IllKillYou
Wow, that's a huge improvement
The 9600 pro has 2354 points.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=131652

I'd like to know how much overclock you get when you try Luckyfishbone...
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post #15 of 52
2/20/06 at 10:08pm
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Ill let ya know I'm trying right now...
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post #16 of 52
2/20/06 at 10:52pm
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Flav, I installed the Omega drivers and cant find the overclock tab or how to over clock?
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post #17 of 52
2/20/06 at 11:04pm
Like i said in PM. Go to start, omega drivers, ati tray tools. Make sure you uncheck reset clocks on exit and after suspend. YOU DO NOT WANT IN ANY WAY FOR IT TO SET DEFAULT CLOCKS WHILE YOU"RE ON POWERPLAY... it will crash.

You can find these settings in right click ATT in systray (once you opened ATT), Tools and options, general options.
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post #18 of 52
2/20/06 at 11:16pm
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Flav, im running omega 3.8.221 version. I cant find what your talking about.
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post #19 of 52
2/20/06 at 11:20pm
Ok, what you must understand is that ATT is another program, which comes with the drivers, packaged, kind of like CCC comes w/ the regular drivers. For instance, I set all my settings through ATT and don't go to display properties, advanced. (In fact you shouldn't do this if you have ATT, just do eveyrthing through att)

That said, it should have asked you at driver installation if you want to install "ATi Tray Tools" (ATT) and multires. I usually just install ATT. Did you do this?

If you did, it does not start up automatically at first. Go to start, programs, radeon omega drivers, and you will find ATT there. Start it. It will appear in the bottom right. Right click it, set the setting I told you. After that, right click it, go to hardware, overclocking.

MAKE SURE powerplay is not on when you overclock. You can tell when powerplay is on b/c the clocks will be at 99/120 instead of the default 297/229.50
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post #20 of 52
2/20/06 at 11:28pm
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Ok, I found it and unchecked reset clocks before suspend. Now "Reset clocks on exit" is greyed out or im not able to uncheck for some reason.
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