ATI radeon xpress 200m 128 discreet

Whats up all, I have been reading the posts about this graphic card for quite a while and to be honest its quite contrary.. based on what i have the performance of the card is totally dependednt on your setup....

Well this is mine

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Processor - turion 2.0 ghz (64 bit ready)

H/DRIVE - 80g 5400 rpm

Memory 1gig

video ati radeon xpress 200m 128 discreet with hypermemory

well its on order i have not gotten it yet now tell me what can this lappy do and what cant it do.....

I am no hardcore gamer by the way but, i do play games sometimes so it must be able to run the lates titles, but from what i have read so far some say it will some say it wont so i thought id put in my specs and you all can advise me what i can or can not run on this lappy....


Another issue i was reading a thread where you guys actually can use a utility to increase the clock speed (on the card), if i do this and use hypermemory to get system memory making 256 in total will it perform any better ???

I have seen posts that say when you use the additioanl 128 from the system memory it slows down the machine etc....

OR DO I NEED TO SEND IT BACK ???

 

My pc has the mt40 2.2ghz, 2gb of ram and a 5400rpm 80b hdd. The video is an integrated ati 200m. I have it set at 128mb and the card plays bf2 pretty well, but is a casual gamer card not for the intense gamer. The system is pretty fast and I really happy with it. I have desktop performance in a 12in thin and light. ultra portability and all that power makes me all giddy inside.

 

it would use hypermemory whenever it thinks it needs the memory...you could disable shared system VRAM...@ BIOS , that should make use of 128MB VRAM Dedicated

 

I doubt taking 128mb will slow down the computer. With a single core Turion I dont think you would be doing anything major in the background so when you are gaming you should have alot of free RAM. Even if you are multitasking you rarely ever use up 1gb. I have 1.2gb (wierd number i know) on my dell ultraportable and i multitask alot, still iv never used over 600mb.

The performance gain with Hypermemory isnt much though, so if you are really miffed about system ram being used as video ram you can disable it in the Bios as Prasys said.

 

well in terms of performance i read the the card doesnt have the power to support the 256 so its basically pointless, additionally it reduces the performance of the card itself (according to the post)... I really dont see how that makes sense but the person who posted provided facts(according to them) where the FPS was actually reduced because of the shared memory, they recommended just using the onboard memory (128mb)

 

You'll probably loose performance if you share memory; the X200M can't even use 128MB effectively, let alone "256MB HyperMemory". You'll loose performance because it hogs the system memory bandwidth.

Use this to see if you can run games:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

We have too many threads on "what can I run," sorry.

Chaz

 

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Sorry for my blabbing. i know its useless!