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    Help with some graphics cards

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by theneighborrkid, Sep 3, 2007.

  1. theneighborrkid

    theneighborrkid Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm trying to find myself a laptop and there is one graphics card that is giving me one heck of a hard time...

    nVidia 8600m GT, apparently there is a version with 256mb ddr2 ram, and one with 256mb ddr3, then there is the nVidia 8600 GT with 512mb ddr ram (in the sager 2090) but apparently other versions have ddr3...I'm trying to get the best laptop for myself and It would be really helpful if people could tell me which laptops had the ddr2 versions and the ddr3...
    Thanks for your time.
     
    theneighborrkid, Sep 3, 2007
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  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The Video Ram does not make a significant difference for video cards.

    There is only 3 notebooks with the GDDR3 8600GT which is clocked at 700mhz, the Macbook Pro, ASUS G1s and ASUS G2s.

    Every other 8600GT out there is DDR2, clocked at 400mhz IIRC.
     
    coriolis, Sep 3, 2007
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