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    6470M or 6520G video on A6-3400M

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by JoeLansing, Dec 30, 2011.

  1. JoeLansing

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    I'm buying my wife a junk notebook. I'm looking at a Acer Aspire AS5560G-Sb468 LX.RNZ02.063 Notebook PC - AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M 1.4GHz, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6 Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Black at TigerDirect.com which says it uses a 6470M with 1GB of DDR3 video RAM. But when I start looking around everyplace says the 3400M has a 6520G.

    And is that 1GB of video RAM dedicated??? These new APU chips have this old man confused.. :) Either chip will work for Farmville, but I'm just wondering what it has. There are a lot of rants about Newegg posting the wrong specs for the A6-3400M video, and I wonder if Tiger is doing the same. Thank you for any help.
    - Joe
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    When an Acer notebook has "G" after model number it indicates a dedicated card.
    A6-3400M has an integrated 6520G on-boards as it is an integrated card but apparently Acer chose to add a dedicated HD6470.

    That said I'm not 100% sure either as I wasn't able to find a credible source.
     
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    Even here AS5560G-Sb468 | Product Model Acer has 6470M at the top description, but 6520G below in the specs. Maybe it has both in crossfire? I'll know Monday when it gets here :)
    - Joe
     
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    Bronsky Wait and Hope.

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    I would bet this unit runs in cross-fire mode. Take a look at the DV6T-A6 threads.
     
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    Well, I have the answer and it's not what any of the above was. It has a 6650M on the APU, and a 1GB 6520G dedicated. This makes it a 6720G2 AMD Radeon HD 6720G2 - Notebookcheck.net Tech

    I think it's almost a steal for light/medium gaming at $429 It's got a WEI 6.8 for gaming but that might only be on one card? The disk rates at 7.2 which is blistering fast for a 5400 drive. A WD Black 7200 SATA 2 only gets 5.9 so I'm wondering what they did? SATA III maybe? My evil wife should be ok playing Farmville on it.. :)
    - Joe
     
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