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    Dedicated Graphics cards

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jose86, Jun 16, 2007.

  1. jose86

    jose86 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am going to be picking up a mid ranged priced notebook with a geforce go 7600 256mb dedicated graphics card.

    If I understand notebook graphic cards correctly dedicated means its not part of the mother board. Does this mean down the line it is possible to upgrade this card? I do not know much about notebooks.
     
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Dedicated just means it is a better card. Most laptop graphics cards are not upgradeable.
     
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    Dedicated means that the graphics card has its own ram that it can use. Dedicated cards dont have to share system ram like shared memory cards.
     
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    Okay, thanks shows how little I know about notebooks. I had always assume its not possible to upgrade the graphics card on a notebook. the "dedicated" confused me on that.
     
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    dedicated means it's a chip dedicated only to video tasks, not a chip that besides controlling memory and peripherals also does the video tasks

    the x200 is an integrated gpu, but can have dedicated memory
    I don't know any dedicated gpu without it's own memory but this is also possible

    the xbox and xbox 360 gpus are integrated and shares system memory but performs quite ahead of its contemporary low end gpus
     
    vshade, Jun 16, 2007
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