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    dv5000t & nVidia GeForce Card

    Discussion in 'HP' started by PortaMonkey, Aug 4, 2006.

  1. PortaMonkey

    PortaMonkey Newbie

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    I purchased a dv5000t with the nVidia graphics option... The HP site and my invoice say that I bought a 128MB card.

    Now, according the nVidia driver - the card is a 256MB card not 128MB... now I would be quite inclined to believe the nvidia driver- never seen it lie to me about the installed cards memory .....

    But then again, this is my first notebook so I don't know all the little things-

    is this one of those 128MB is on the card, and it's using 128MB of my RAM... or is HP wrong in what they have on their site about this card?
     
    PortaMonkey, Aug 4, 2006
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  2. Zero

    Zero The Random Guy

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    What I think is that the card you have supports turbocache and therefore has an extra 128 MB of memory. So, the card has a dedicated 128 MB, and some is shared from the system memory.
     
    Zero, Aug 4, 2006
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