The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Is the 1520 half as powerful as the g1s because of ddr issues?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by stainer713, Jul 24, 2007.

  1. stainer713

    stainer713 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    42
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Everyone knows that dell pulled a fast one and put a graphics card in their laptop that has ddr2 components rather than ddr3 ones. What I and many others don't know is what kind of an impact this will have with actual gaming and whether or not the graphics card can be overclocked to match ddr3 performance without issue. How much more powerful is the ddr3 card than the other one? Twice as powerful? A third more powerful? Post your best guess.
     
    stainer713, Jul 24, 2007
    #1
  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    2,319
    Messages:
    14,119
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    455
    Not half, but it's a bit behind, yes.

    As for how much, it's really debatable, the G1s stock drivers should perform the same as the 1520 overclocked.
     
    coriolis, Jul 24, 2007
    #2