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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a Dell Latitude C810 wtih the maximum RAM
installed, which I believe is 512MB, Pentium III 133 mhz, 16 MB video RAM, 20
Gig HD w/5 Gig free.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does this mean it does not have shared video ram
and will increasing video ram from 16 to 32 MB significantly speed up this
machine ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> It seems to be incessantly paging stuff back
and forth to the HD. Are there settings that will optimize this too ? Will
doubling the video RAM significantly improve this activity, as well
?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your help,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Courtney</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rbrtwicks@aim.com href="mailto:rbrtwicks@aim.com">Robert A. Wicks</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ale@ale.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:29
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ale] OT: Cheap Laptop w/o
shared RAM</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I don't think this is right. I have a $500 Acer laptop which
came with Vista Home. It can get up to 358MB of RAM from the system, but the
onboard is nowhere near that much. I have an Nvidia 7300 with 128M onboard,
but it can get twice that from the system. I don't think shared RAM is the
problem, unless the video card has *no* onboard RAM. If it has *some*, you
won't have the slow 2D performance. You will get a slowdown with intensive 3D
stuff, though.<BR><BR>Jim Lynch wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:49244F07.4040701@fayettedigital.com type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Jim Popovitch wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">What are the advantages of having dedicated video ram? What are the
downsides to not having dedicated video ram?
Thx.
-Jim P.
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap=""><!---->One think I keep reading that is a real positive, is that Vista won't
run on a shared video ram. ;)
Jim.
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