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post #81 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:31am
Yeah im trying to but my posting rules says that im not allowed to post any attachments. Whats this?????
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post #82 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:33am
use some outside source e.g.

imageshack.us
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post #83 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:34am
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkAM
Shifting goalposts! That's not the argument! The card may only have 32 or 64MB of dedicated memory, and is sold as 128MB. THAT'S the argument!
oh really? Sounds like you're the one shifting goalposts:

"ATI X300 Shocker: may have no dedicated memory!"

Regardless of any extra sharing done by the video card, I stand by 128mb dedicated memory.
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post #84 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:34am
This post is flying.. F5, F5, F5!
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post #85 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:35am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Picard
Yeah im trying to but my posting rules says that im not allowed to post any attachments. Whats this?????
Looking at the keyboard now. Press the "Print Screen/SysRq" + "Alt" button at the same time.

Open microsoft paint in accessories. Start - All Programs - Accessories - Paint.

In paint. Open the edit button, and click "Paste". You can drag the picture then resize it by clicking the outer edge of the screen.

Now open the file button, and click "Save as".

In save as. Name your picture, and "save as type" JPEG.

Go to http://www.photobucket.com/ and register, it's free.
Upload your picture there, and richt click and save the link of your uploaded picture.

Come here, to notebookforums, and richt click and past your link, to the message pad. Type "[img]" in front of the link, and "[/img]" in the back of the link, no quotation marks.

Press submit reply, and show us your picture of your test results. Please.
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post #86 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:35am
Well it doesn't say anything about "64-bit RV370 with 32MB DDR memory.
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post #87 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:38am
Mine, which is a 128MB ATI X300 doesn't say anything about memory in RivaTuner v2 RC 15.4

This is the output of the report:
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0000000000 Description : ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 1002 (ATI)
$0000000002 Device ID : 5460
$0000000003 Location : bus 1, device 0, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : PCIE
$000000000f PCIE link width : 16x supported, 16x selected
$0000000009 Base address 0 : d0000000 (memory range)
$000000000a Base address 1 : 0000de00 (I/O range)
$000000000b Base address 2 : dfdf0000 (memory range)
$000000000c Base address 3 : none
$000000000d Base address 4 : none
$000000000e Base address 5 : none
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post #88 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:40am
Rivatuner looks useless here.

Try Powerstrip. After it's installed. Right click the icon on the task bar, where the clock is, and open graphic card properties. It'll show a detailed description of your graphics card.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,6241,00.asp
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post #89 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:47am
Why go through all of that?

Right click on desktop, properties, settings, advanced, and click on adapter tab.
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post #90 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:47am
Riva Tuner doesn't say anything about memory size, just that there is 125.4MB of non-local AGP memory available. Am I missing something?
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post #91 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:49am
It also calls my display adapter a "Dell Display controller", it has nothing about ATI in the name.
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post #92 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:56am
Thread Starter 
"Non-local" aka system memory.
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post #93 of 218
3/29/05 at 2:59am
Doh. It looks like the entire 128 megs come from system memory.

What did powerstrip say ?

Edit. No it means that the X300 has 2.6 MB or on board ram.
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post #94 of 218
3/29/05 at 3:07am
SO, could anyone interpret these figures?

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post #95 of 218
3/29/05 at 3:16am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Picard
SO, could anyone interpret these figures?
Is that the Inspiron 6000 X300 video card ?

That video card uses 128 Megs of ram. Your takes 120 Megs from the system ram, and has 8 Megs built onto the X300. For a total of 128 MB of ram.

That's less total ram than the integrated video, which uses 224 MB of system ram.
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post #96 of 218
3/29/05 at 3:22am
Yes this is MY system's info 128MB X300 it is. BUT, why does my system properties say i have 512 of ram? If indeed the X300 takes 120MB from my ram, system properties would have reported 392MB RAM. AND Task manager also reports otherwise.
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post #97 of 218
3/29/05 at 3:28am

non-local video memory.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/agp4.htm

"AGP improves the process of storing texture maps by allowing the operating system to designate RAM for use by the graphics card on the fly. This type of memory is called AGP memory or non-local video memory.

Using the much more abundant and faster RAM used by the operating system to store texture maps reduces the number of maps that have to be stored on the graphics card's memory.

In addition, the size of the texture map your computer is capable of processing is no longer limited to the amount of RAM on the graphics card."

Your 128 Meg X300 is taking 120 megs from your system ram.

Only 8 megs is on the video card itself.
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post #98 of 218
3/29/05 at 3:34am
OK im starting to get your point. But could you please answer the rest of my questions.
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post #99 of 218
3/29/05 at 3:41am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Picard
OK im starting to get your point. But could you please answer the rest of my questions.
It's taking the 120 MB of ram from the system memory. The value of the system memory equals itself.

If the system memory counts itself, it registers 512 ram.
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post #100 of 218
3/29/05 at 3:43am
i doubt thats the case...

i mean .. just 8 mb of memory on X300?
do they even make that?
just doesnt sound right

if it is then..... dell is in trouble ...
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