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7/28/07 at 5:18pm
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Alright.. I know a lot of you are thinking why would I even bother but here is my situation.. my laptop has 2gigs of ram, the AMD 64 X2 1.8ghz proc, and a NVIDIA Geforce Go 6150 gfx card. When I purchased it the specs for the card where VERY hard to find and I've been googling it and found places that have upped it to 128 in the BIOS (which I have done) then found other ways to up it to 512mb in Windows, but they don't list how or with what programs. I'm wondering if there is a way to dedicate or even share more of my system memory with my video card than I currently am.. or if there is any way I can drag more performance out of it then I currently am. Also if anybody knows the possibilities of switching over a Vista laptop back to XP and if I will be able to find compatible drivers etc. PLEASE share that information as well, vista is interested for a while but the bells and whistles just don't do it for me. Appreciate any help in advance and if I find anything while I'm googling I'll be sure to post it up for anyone else looking. The model number for my laptop @ compusa.com is dv9320US if anyone wants to take another look at the specs/information on it.


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7/29/07 at 1:47am
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Alright.. I know a lot of you are thinking why would I even bother but here is my situation.. my laptop has 2gigs of ram, the AMD 64 X2 1.8ghz proc, and a NVIDIA Geforce Go 6150 gfx card. When I purchased it the specs for the card where VERY hard to find and I've been googling it and found places that have upped it to 128 in the BIOS (which I have done)
mind sharing it with others :-)

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..then found other ways to up it to 512mb in Windows, but they don't list how or with what programs.
link? may be we can gang up and chase the original together

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I'm wondering if there is a way to dedicate or even share more of my system memory with my video card than I currently am.. or if there is any way I can drag more performance out of it then I currently am.
squeezing out extra ram on an integrated gpu is quite good, u might want to look into cleaning up startup processes and services to get more performance out of ur system. Faster hard drive would definitively helps if u haven't done so already

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Also if anybody knows the possibilities of switching over a Vista laptop back to XP and if I will be able to find compatible drivers etc.
look into ur device manager, jot down manu and model, then search for xp drivers before deciding to re.install the system.

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... vista is interested for a while but the bells and whistles just don't do it for me. ...
apart from certain devices that r still catching up on driver, i personally find no fault in vista in its current form at the moment. pure gamers might find it a bit slow (?) at the moment, but eventually one has to move to vista with the new graphic generation. anyway, a 20min vista installation will beat hours on xp anytime!

cheers ...
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