X1600 with hypermemory lame?or can be entry lvl?

[bulkypc07]

i bought a new notebook 2 days ago
its an ACER travelmate 3282 series.

MY problems is the video card OMG lol
i thought it was 256MB ddr2
when i read the box and stickers spec it
was X1600 ati radeon up to 256MB hypermemory
so would be lame?will i not be able to run new games n those
old games like doom3 and quake 4?

 

[DanielMD]

I think the X1600 come with 256MB of dedicated memory and 256MB of shared/hypermemory coming to a total of 512Mb but the 256Mb of dedicated memory are the one that are going to do all the work, you can find some benchmarks on that card, it performes well enough for most games, in line with GeForce Go 7600.

P.S: nope i checked the website looks like it is only a 256MB of shared memory, i don't really have any info on this kind of solution, ub tit should be a bit slower than a normal 256Mb of dedicated memory card.

 

[killernotebooks]

You are correct in that diaper memory, oh, I mean hyper memory, is a very low budget way to advertise you have a decent card to get people to pay more, then go ahead and cripple it so the performance isn't there.

When you have onboard video memory it is usually GDDR2 or better yet GDDR3. This is very fast memory, that you already noted is on the GPU board so 1. it is faster. 2. It is a very short distance from the GPU itself. 3. It is directly controlled by the GPU. 4. It is dedicated to the GPU.

Hyper Memory is shared system memory, that means it is the RAM your system has in it. Coupe drawbacks to this are:
1. It is system memory, and is being used and controlled by the system. It may not be available to allocate when you need it, or you may not have enough system meory to start with.
2. It is slower than the DDR2 counterpart (especially if you are talking about GDDR3 (the G-stands for graphics))
3. In an Intel system the off board memory controller puts 2 more hops in your GPU getting to the memory if it is even available. From GPU to CPU to Memory Controller to Memory latency.
4. Distance from GPU to CPU to Memory Controller to RAM, and all the way back. Remember, this stuff is doing millions of calcs a second and what seems like a short distance becomes a very long round trip when you are processing that many instructions a sec.

It is overall much slower and highly NOT recommended, but far better than an onboard integrated GPU. If you got a good deal I would just say, "Hey, it's a little bit better than nothing." If you specifically bought a system for doing some moderate gaming, and thought you were getting something else, and paid a little more for it, return the thing and get a differnt system.

 

[bulkypc07]

so putting more memory will add more performance to my graphics?
will be the 1GB ddr2 is enough?
n why does my battery last only 2hrs.

 

[killernotebooks]

More memory will overall help the system, and anything htat is sharing it.

Why you are getting ppor battery life, if you are like me, you have the screen brightness turned all the way up, and I don't want the sytem to monkey with it!

Try using any proprietary power management utilites that came with your system, like power now or whatever, if there weren't any, or if you aren't happy with those you can always go to Control Panel in Windows and use the Power management options in Windows.

 

[bulkypc07]

Yes the brightness settings is up
the grphics looks poor when i turn it down

 

[killernotebooks]

Yea, I don't like it dimmed like that. My firend has a MAC and he always has the thing so dark I can't even see it and the screen shuts off, I swear after 60 seconds, you can't even read a web page w/o it powering down to save battery life.

Forget that. I can find a stinking outlet and plug the thing in so I can actually use the computer you know? I mean, this is america, there is about 6 outlets in every room!

 

[bulkypc07]

lil problem is i wnt to play/surf to internet while eating BIG MAC
you think its ok for them that ill plug in my AC :twisted:

 

[killernotebooks]

Then get this:

Universal under notebook battery.

The power plug and adapter are for charging the battery only, it connects to your notebook with a small plug.

You can eat several BigMac's in 5 hours I would assume.
I am solving the worlds problems today only.

 

[bulkypc07]

thnks for help KN.


I found that my laptop is lil weird, uniuqe? n lame hahaha
its only sold asian countries. Plain stupid i bought n we dont understand each other haha lol

 

[killernotebooks]

Hey, if you get that battery let me know how it works for you. They even have bigger ones, and I sometimes get batttery life questions for gaming. Don't ask me why you would do that, but I guess it is done.