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    525M or 540M for Solidworks, Photoshop, 3d design, medium gaming?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by jsadler, Apr 7, 2011.

  1. jsadler

    jsadler Notebook Guru

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    525M or 540M for Solidworks, Photoshop, 3d design, medium gaming?

    I dont do any gaming currently but would like to get into more.
    I will be playing shooters and racing games mainly.

    I have decided on a dell xps 15.

    Is the upgrade to the 540m worth it?
     
    jsadler, Apr 7, 2011
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  2. Phistachio

    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Yes. Altough those cards are not ground-breaking powerful, they should be enough for you.
     
    Phistachio, Apr 7, 2011
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    jsadler Notebook Guru

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    Is the 525 good enough? or should I upgrade?
     
    jsadler, Apr 7, 2011
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    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Could you tell me exactly which games will you be playing?
     
    Phistachio, Apr 7, 2011
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    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Just checked NBC, it's REALLY worth to exchange to the 540M. It's MUCH better than the 525M.

    Get the 540M. But I would recommend getting a 6770M.
     
    Phistachio, Apr 7, 2011
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  6. jsadler

    jsadler Notebook Guru

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    525 and 540 are only option on xps15
     
    jsadler, Apr 7, 2011
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    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    In that case, get the GT540M :)
     
    Phistachio, Apr 7, 2011
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    jsadler Notebook Guru

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    Andd why does Dell say the 540 was 2gb vram
    while xoticpc says sager mp5160 model with 540 has only 1 gb vram.
    Is vram independent of gpu?
     
    jsadler, Apr 7, 2011
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    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    It means that nvidia gave the manufacturers the possibility to have the amount of VRAM they want, up to 2GB.
     
    Phistachio, Apr 7, 2011
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    Baka (・ω・)

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    Don't worry much about the VRam, 1GB's plenty and if it's not enough, it'll just take a tiny bit more from your RAM :p
     
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  11. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    and dont worry about the gpu upgrade too, since those are the same gpu, with the gt 540m being only higher overclocked, actually

    gt425 - gt435m - gt525 - gt540m - gt550m

    are all the same gpu, with only a slight overclock, yep I can rebrand my entire mid range line and get away with it
     
    Karamazovmm, Apr 7, 2011
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  12. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    Yeah the GT 540M is just a 525M with slightly higher clocks. That's not really worth $100,
     
    Kevin, Apr 8, 2011
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    xxbadboys93 Notebook Deity

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    I would upgrade it because you cannot upgrade it in the future.
     
    xxbadboys93, Apr 8, 2011
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  14. Cheeseman

    Cheeseman Eats alot of Cheese

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    Those cards are more than capable to run those programs. Heck, I'm able to run AutoCAD, Revit, 3ds Max, Photoshop and do a little of light gaming on my ThinkPad which comes a weaker GPU than those you've mentioned.
     
    Cheeseman, Apr 8, 2011
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