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    Clevo M865TU, bios settings, how can i share memory with my graphics card?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by robinson crusoe, Dec 31, 2012.

  1. robinson crusoe

    robinson crusoe Notebook Enthusiast

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    As the title says, i have got the M865TU, i added 4 Gb ram so i have 8 Gb ram on my laptop now. As you know this laptop has a 1 Gb DDR3 9800GS card on it. I remember that i found an unofficial bios on this forum and updated it. Anyway, on the original BIOS i remember that i could share memory with the graphics card, i maybe wrong though. BIOS seems to have pretty simple interface and menus but i wanted to ask anyway, is there a way to share memory with the graphics card, am i missing something? I couldn't see that option on my BIOS settings...
     
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    Scott-PWNPC Company Representative

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    If you can do it, don't. Rams better off allocated to the system and it's also a lot slower than the ram on the GPU.
     
    Scott-PWNPC, Jan 1, 2013
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    The graphics card does that automatically, that's why you get the slow down, the graphics card has to wait for system ram to store and retrieve the information.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 1, 2013
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    Thanks for the answers. I sent a message to Nvidia support and they said that it depends on my computer and advised me to contact them. As it's a Clevo i prefer not to contact :) In fact i never had a problem with the performance, even playing games at the highest settings. The problem is, i bought a new game, GTA4, and realized that the game doesn't allow me to choose the highest settings as it's calculating and comparing how much memory needed and how much i have. It's close to highest settings though, only one option is at high instead of very high :D Not a big deal but i wanted to be sure that i cannot decide how much memory is shared manually.
     
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    Nope, and it wont let you raise settings because you would go above 1GB, start using system memory and your performance would crash pretty much.
     
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    Understood and stopped trying :) I'm still amazed by what this old laptop is capable to do thinking of it was half the price of famous brands when it first came out :)
     
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    Some machines like the M15X, GX660, and some of the clevo models like the x7200 really stand the test of time.

    They show the advantages of modularity and good cooling design.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 2, 2013
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