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    Asus and X1600 512MB VGA?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Empulse, Apr 3, 2006.

  1. Empulse

    Empulse Notebook Evangelist

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    Is there a chance we'll get an ASUS notebook with a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 512MB VGA in the near future?

    Anyone got an idea about this?
     
    Empulse, Apr 3, 2006
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  2. NZwaverider

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    The W3J has an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, it is onyl 256mb, but can source 256mb system memory as virtual RAM to give you a total of 512mb. thats not too shabby at all.
     
    NZwaverider, Apr 3, 2006
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  3. Johnny9ball

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    Only 256meg /chuckle

    People who are demanding 512meg top of the line video cards in laptops should be buying 15 pound lug around desktop replacements.
     
    Johnny9ball, Apr 3, 2006
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    ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 PCI-E Graphics w/ 256MB VRAM (512MB Hyper Memory) [proportable.com]

    HyperMemory™ is ATI’s innovative technology that enables a reduction in the amount of on-board memory on a graphics card without compromising its overall performance.

    Its advanced memory management technology makes more efficient use of all the available memory in computers with PCI Express® technology. Graphics applications can share system memory and use fast on-board memory for real-time processing between the graphics card and the computer’s memory. This ultimately increases the affordability of ATI’s RADEON® graphics technology. [ati.com]

    unless im mistaken?
    .cosmo
     
    cosmonaut, Apr 3, 2006
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  5. NZwaverider

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    Yeah thats exactly what I was on about, mind you this is a much better explanation, don't know performance wise how it actually rates against a real 512mb card? but I am sure it would work better with the more RAM you have installed i.e. at least over 1gb.

    But at the end of the day I have never seen a 512mb card in anything resembling portable, which makes the 14' W3J at 2.3 kg simply remarkable, even most 15' mainstream laptops dont even have 128mb cards.

    has anybody seen even a gaming laptop with a 512mb card, (although i think it is Rock, here in the UK do a dual card running in SLI mode!)

    check it out, awesome, its runing Two NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800GTX 256Mb cards!

    http://www.rockdirect.com/notebooks/xtremesl_cons.htm

    However at 6.5kg you wouldnt want to carry it to far. :D
     
    NZwaverider, Apr 3, 2006
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  6. djpharoah

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    you can get the Asus A8Jm with a 512Mb go7600
     
    djpharoah, Apr 3, 2006
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  7. tianx

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    No idea how the x1600 will utilise 512mb vram tho... ehhehe read somewhere that 256 is more than enough... check one of the stickies in the gaming/video section :)
     
    tianx, Apr 3, 2006
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    It would be hard to find anything that would use all 256 then go into hypermemory.
     
    Johnny9ball, Apr 3, 2006
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