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    Performance Issues with a mx6433

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by mr_bankai, Aug 12, 2008.

  1. mr_bankai

    mr_bankai Notebook Evangelist

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    My friend was trying to play an online FPS and started to have a lot of skipped frames and overall lag issues. The odd thing is that my girlfriend's toshiba Satalite L25 can play the game without much problems. it even has the same ATI 200m video card. The Gateway has a Turion ML-30 (1.6ghz) while the Tosh has a 1.4Ghz Celeron M. The Turion is a faster proc so that shouldnt be the problem. Did HD Tune on both HDD's and they are about the same only off by 5MB/s. The Gateway has 1.5GB of RAM while the Tosh has only 768MB. How in the world is the TOsh outperforming the Gateway??? Am i missing something??? :confused: (all the games settings are put to minimum on both systems) I dont have any system benchmarks avalible...if someone could direct me to a free one i'll run them tonight and post the results. thanks for your help guys!
     
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    mr_bankai Notebook Evangelist

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    ok, i just did a benchmark from pc wizard and it turns out that the culprit was the RAM. Although the Gateway has more RAM, the Toshiba has much faster ram. The gateway uses pc-2700 while the tosh has pc2-4200. does anyone know if the mx6433 supports any other types of RAM besides pc2700?
     
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    Dook Notebook Virtuoso

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    Unfortunately, not. DDR1 333/PC2700 is the best you can do on that particular model.
     
    Dook, Aug 13, 2008
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    i was afraid of that...oh well. thanks for your help though :) guess it's time for him to buy a new laptop. at least black friday is around the corner haha
     
    mr_bankai, Aug 13, 2008
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