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    8600 GT Questions

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by nonemus, Oct 8, 2007.

  1. nonemus

    nonemus Notebook Consultant

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    Okay, so i have my mind set on buting a Asus Laptop. I have 2 choices, the v1s or g1s. The v1 has a 512mb 8600GT DDR2 and the G1 has "512MB PCI-Express nVidia GeForce 8600GT GDDR3 DX10 Turbo Cache (256MB on Board)"

    The price is about same for both, so please advise which is the better Graphic Card in this case.

    Thank You,
    nonemus
     
    nonemus, Oct 8, 2007
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  2. Crimsonman

    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    G1 is better. GDDR3 beats DDR2
     
    Crimsonman, Oct 8, 2007
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  3. Macpod

    Macpod Connoisseur

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    512MB of DDR2 on a 128bit bus is a marketing gimmick. Totally useless. you can put 2GB of DDr2 memory on it and it will still be slower than the DDR3
     
    Macpod, Oct 8, 2007
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  4. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    Get a c90s with the GDDR3 XD
     
    JCMS, Oct 8, 2007
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  5. Gilliann

    Gilliann Notebook Consultant

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    Get the g1s for sure
     
    Gilliann, Oct 8, 2007
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  6. Marcus42

    Marcus42 Notebook Enthusiast

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    One question I've had, since the card in the G1S is listed as an 8600M GT and in the V1S as an 8600 GT (though retailers seem to list it as 8600M GT but I mean on the ASUS site's specs): Is there a difference?
     
    Marcus42, Oct 19, 2007
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  7. MrWhereItsAt

    MrWhereItsAt Notebook Evangelist

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    No, the M denotes Mobile, as in for laptops. There is no way one of those laptops would be able to take a non-M graphics cards, which would be a desktop one. Except perhaps for certain highly specialised boutique laptops designed to handle desktop components (and I've only heard of those that use desktop CPUs, not gfx cards), you should assume all GeForce 8xxx cards in laptops should have the suffix "M".
     
    MrWhereItsAt, Oct 19, 2007
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  8. Harleyquin07

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    All notebooks have mobile versions of their gfx card models. The difference between cards typically ends up between the card number (8600 vs 8700), card variant (8600 GT > 8600 GS) and video card memory (G1S has GDDR3, V1S and the vast majority of other laptops with 8600 GT have DDR2).

    Chaz's sticky at the top of the forum links to one of the threads explaining how the different graphics cards for notebooks stack up with each other.
     
    Harleyquin07, Oct 19, 2007
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    The Forerunner Notebook Virtuoso

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    G1s, C90 and MBP have gddr3.
     
    The Forerunner, Oct 19, 2007
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