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    aspire 1804

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by nightblade788, Dec 22, 2004.

  1. nightblade788

    nightblade788 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The Aspire 1804 has the PCI-E chipset in it? The one on Newegg only has 64mb vram, so does that mean it would be upgradable to 128mb? I don't understand the whole the whole PCI-E thing, I just know it means it's upgradeable... is the card in the Acer the same exact one in the HP laptops?
     
    nightblade788, Dec 22, 2004
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    spire Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, the Aspire 1804 has PCI-E chipset. In short, PCI-express means that the videocard can communicate with the CPU and the main memory without the AGP bus being the bottleneck.
    It is supposed to be upgradable, but it is not the case for the Aspire 1802 version and I would conclude that this is also the case for the 1804.
    To my knowledge, only the ATI Radeon X series (x800, x600 and x300 etc)and Geforce 6xxx series (6800, 6600 etc) are PCI-express. Just check what kind of video card HP uses.
     
    spire, Dec 22, 2004
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