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    Ati X1600

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Proshyne, Aug 17, 2006.

  1. Proshyne

    Proshyne Notebook Geek

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    Does anyone know if the ATI X1600 is dedicated or would i be better off with GeForce 7600? Another question would be would either one of them make a fun high resolution gaming experience?
     
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    gethin Notebook Evangelist

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    Both are just as powerfull as the other. Although the x1600 tends to be a little faster in real life gaming.

    The ati x1600 is ALLWAYS dedicated, either 128mb or 256mb

    Both will play the lates games on medium settings/resolution fine.
     
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    But are they dedicated? Ive herd people say that the Geforce 7600 512MB Is dedicated but im not to sure about the X1600 :confused: The X1600 is only 256MB
     
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    Both are dedicated. the amount of RAM on the Grpahics card is NOT the deciding factor. A x1600 with 256MB or RAM will be faster than a 7400 with 512Mb for ewxample.

    The X1600 will deffinitely come with either 128Mb or 256MB of Dedicated RAM

    These cards also use whats called hypermemory/turbocache, which basically means that if the card is advertised as a geforce 7600 512, it usually has 256 of dedicated, and can take another 256 from your RAM to use for itself. The same applies to ATI cards.
     
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    Well said, I've herd that the X1600 got a slightly higher rating in the benchmark's then the Geforce 7600. You seem to back that up.
     
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    :) hope i helped
     
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    Yep very much, I've been looking at The Asus A8Jm and the s96j along with the compal Hel80, so that defenently helped, thank's alot :)
     
    Proshyne, Aug 17, 2006
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