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    About DV2550se Video memory?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vanasian, Sep 12, 2007.

  1. vanasian

    vanasian Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Guys: I just bought HP DV2550SE recently. Today I was checking what I have in this laptop so I clicked system information. What I found out is that my graphics memory has only 10MB. Is it normal?? From BestBuy website it says Video memory is 256MB. I am not sure what it is. Would anyone explain for me? Thanks in advance.
    DV2500SE : 1.5 GHZ processor
    intel GMA X3100
    2GB memory
    pic here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8K8BXD8M
     
    vanasian, Sep 12, 2007
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    kowell Notebook Evangelist

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    What'S your graphic card? Is it integrated grahics?
     
    kowell, Sep 12, 2007
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  3. vanasian

    vanasian Notebook Enthusiast

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    yes, it is integrated one. Intel GMA X3100.
     
    vanasian, Sep 12, 2007
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    It's because when you checked it, you probably weren't doing anything intensive and thus the IGP only used 10 Mb of the system RAM. Since an IGP doesn't have any memory of its own, when it says that the card has 256 Mb RAM, what it actually means is that it can allocate a max of 256 RAM to the card.
     
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  5. vanasian

    vanasian Notebook Enthusiast

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    thank u ..
     
    vanasian, Sep 12, 2007
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