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post #21 of 28
8/18/06 at 11:20pm
Your dedicated videocard memory is still 64mb, but you increased 192mb of your system memory. That how hypermemory works, you are combining card RAM with system RAM.
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post #22 of 28
8/18/06 at 11:53pm
isnt the x1400 clocked higher as well?
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post #23 of 28
8/19/06 at 12:35am
I think so, but you can always overclock it your self.
x1300/x1400 has the same GPU.
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post #24 of 28
8/20/06 at 4:02pm
What is the default clock speed for processor and ram on x1300? I forgot what the defaults are. And I want to set it back because it's effecting battery life on Dell Inspiron E1505.
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post #25 of 28
8/23/06 at 10:34am
both the 1300 and 1400 now go up to 256 megs with the latest drivers. However the hardware is still 64/128 megs respectivly.

The increased memory and higher clock speed make the 1400 abit more adept at attempting todays dx9 games, but they both still have 4 pipelines and are really outclassed when it comes to future and current monsters games like oblivion, fear, and unreal 07.

Games of a generation ago like wow, guild wars, unreal 2k4 and such performe just fine though on both the 1300 and 1400. Visto should be fine on both cards as well, and both cards have the gpu optimisations for HD video content (dvd can be done on any video card) should you struggle to try and use them. Fact is its a helluva lot easier to just use a software player since the core duo is great at giving the speed needed to decode it.
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post #26 of 28
8/23/06 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by Binman_UK
Easily. Allegedly my integrated Intel graphics on my 9400 will run Vista Aero absolutely fine. It'll absolutely fly with an x1300.
Yeah if you don't mind your display lagging like a madman all day. Windows XP has a minimum requirement of 733Mhz and it works fine, it's just slow and laggy. Having used Aero for quite some time I can assure you that Intel graphics are absolutely brutal with it. (and is the main reason that Intel is now going to start pushing higher performance GPUs very shortly)

Regarding the X1300 it isn't horrible running Aero and is capable, although the X1400 is about ten times better running it. I have had Vista running on all of these cards for testing one of our applications so I speak from experience. Hypermemory is hilarious how it is marketed, because it is something that we have had for many years now. It used to be called 'AGP Aperature' and was the amount of system memory used for video across the AGP bus... but that went away with PCI-express which is why they made Hypermemory. So a 64MB with 64MB is exactly 100% the same as a 64MB AGP card and setting your aperature to 64MB, although Hypermemory is a much easier catch phrase to add to marketing heh
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post #27 of 28
8/23/06 at 1:51pm
Imp, hmm, not quite, not only is hypermemory much different, but both ati's and nvidias solutions are also quite a bit different from eachother (aside from both using system memory to extend its texture ram). AGP Aperature is a bios setting that the drivers had no control over.
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post #28 of 28
8/23/06 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by JeffMD
Imp, hmm, not quite, not only is hypermemory much different, but both ati's and nvidias solutions are also quite a bit different from eachother (aside from both using system memory to extend its texture ram). AGP Aperature is a bios setting that the drivers had no control over.
It ends up giving you the exact same thing other than having it controlled by a driver. This is because more of PCI-Express is driven by the WDM than by the motherboard and BIOS. So you can call them different because they technically are, but they are giving you the EXACT same thing you had back with AGP Aperature which is the point I was making. It was just moved to drivers instead of on the motherboard.

I work with video cards all day so I have to deal with issues like this, and quite honestly I hated seeing it rebranded as 'Hypermemory' and sold as a feature.. considering all it did was give back a feature heh
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