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    What type of RAM does the ATI 3650 use?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Ice Cold, Jan 5, 2009.

  1. Ice Cold

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    I have a 1737 with the ATI 3650 graphics but GPUZ shows it as having DDR2 RAM, when I have seen other laptops with the same ATI 3650 card running with DDR3 RAM. what Gives?
     
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    Dell indeed went with the DDR2 version of the 3650 for some reason. The GPU-Z reading is not an error.
     
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    Sorry to ask but the radeon 3650 in the Studio17 has hypermemory?
    Can i add another 256mb of memory to the graphics card from the RAM?
     
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    Dell keeps DDR3 out of the Studio line to lessen the chance it will compete with the XPS line.

    If you are on Vista it automatically adds system RAM to the vcard irrespective of it is hypermemory or not.
     
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    And if you are on xp???
     
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    Yeah I noticed some gaming improvements since I turned off Super Fetch which would pre-cache everything into my 4GIGS leaving 75MB of free RAM.

    After SuperFetch was turned off now I have over 2.5gigs FREE.

    And the ATI 3650 loves that because its DDR2 800 ram, so that helps it out.

    I can understand DELL's logic because the didn't Want the Studio 17 to compete against the XPS 1730 for Gaming customers.


    But lets see what they do with the new Studio XPS 1640 which we know will have DDR3 RAM.
     
    Ice Cold, Jan 6, 2009
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