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    1gig 9800

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by icon007, Oct 15, 2008.

  1. icon007

    icon007 Notebook Evangelist

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    is 1 gig too much for a video? does it really help or just hype to sell notebooks? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
     
    icon007, Oct 15, 2008
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  2. Chango99

    Chango99 Derp

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    Just a hype most likely, many video cards won't even use that much.
     
    Chango99, Oct 15, 2008
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  3. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    2 GB of DDR3 VRAM (2 9800's in sli) would be kickass. The more ram allows settings to be bumped for better/more textures, I believe. It is mainly hype to sell notebooks, but then again, more demanding games are always being developed, so in the future, 1 GB or 2GB (sli) of the latest card will be sold and used. My 2 cents...
     
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  4. anarky321

    anarky321 Notebook Deity

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    whats the memory bus width on the 9800?
     
    anarky321, Oct 15, 2008
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  5. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    The 9800 has a 256 bit bus width and with most games will only use up to half a gig effectively with the card. I doubt any game will make use of any more memory with this card... although more memory definatly wouldn't hurt :D
     
    WILLY S, Oct 15, 2008
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    Magnus72 Notebook Virtuoso

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    And also remember it is NOT!!! sorry for the shouting ;) 2GB of Video memory in SLI at all. They are still 1GB, same with my XPS M1730 they are only 512MB, doesn´t matter they run in SLI, the video memory does not increase if you run SLI. Only hype and misleading to the consumer to print out that they have 2GB of memory when they in fact don´t.

    And as said it´s a waste of memory since the 9800m GTX is limited by it´s 256 bit bus and will not utilize more than 512 effectively.
     
    Magnus72, Oct 15, 2008
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  7. Pranalien

    Pranalien Notebook Veteran

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    It is really sad to see what lengths companies go to sell their products by emphasizing on an attribute not even present.
     
    Pranalien, Oct 15, 2008
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  8. icon007

    icon007 Notebook Evangelist

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    most of the sager 96 series and other sager laps are forcing 1 gig vid card in the notebooks and not the 512's. it increase the price by 300 bucks which will put a hold on people wanting to buy a good system for gaming or otherwise.
     
    icon007, Oct 15, 2008
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  9. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    even sadder seeing many people are actually looking at an attribute that's not present.
     
    tianxia, Oct 15, 2008
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  10. Deks

    Deks Notebook Prophet

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    And an even much sadder to find that mid range cards that have 128 bus RARELY come with 256 mb of RAM.
    I mean honestly, the companies aren't stupid ... they want to put the more expensive components inside to gain more money, and then those who are more experienced with laptops (like us) are very limited in what we can get for a lower price (as if we aren't already spending too much cash on brand names alone).
    As such we are virtually FORCED to shell out more cash.
     
    Deks, Oct 15, 2008
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