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    Lenovo T61 15.4 Video Question

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by quadramoray, Oct 17, 2008.

  1. quadramoray

    quadramoray Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got a lenovo t61 that I ordered yesterday, and I use it with the program Ableton Live 7. (music production) The laptop runs the program well, and the only video aspect of it is the sliders that show the volume levels. If I run alot of different Instruments at once, the sliders can start to lag and not be as fluid and accurate in their display of the volume levels, although the rest of the program runs great under pressure in terms of proccessor use. I wanted to see if there was anything I could do to upgrade the graphics or make them perform better. It has an integrated NVIDIA Quadro NVS140M (128) Thanks for any help and answers you can offer me.
     
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    The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso

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    The GPU you have is not integrated, it is a discrete GPU. But aside from that fact, how much memory do you have? Are you sure that it is the GPU that is the bottleneck for you? I don't know since I have never used the program that you mention and don't know how graphically intense it is. A quick and easy way to get more performance would be to add more memory. If the program hits the disk a lot, another thing could be to go for a faster 7200rpm harddrive.
     
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    sefk Notebook Consultant

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    I don't think that the GPU has anything to do with it. This kind of problem is mostly due to the CPU. When the CPU is at 100, it tries to resolve the most important tasks first. Since sliders' animations are not very important, they are not prioritized by the CPU. Result: your sliders are lagging.
     
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    quadramoray Notebook Enthusiast

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    it has a dual core 2.4 t8300 and a 160gb 7200 rpm harddrive with 3 gb ram.Typically when I use the program, the cpu load is about 20-45%
     
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    What about ram?

    I pretty sure that it's not a GPU problem (I can be wrong, thou).
     
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    Didn't answer my question, I want to know about ram's usage.
     
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