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    A300 with ATI HD3650

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by thescreensavers, Nov 9, 2009.

  1. thescreensavers

    thescreensavers Notebook Consultant

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    I been googling like mad, any how has any one messed with the bios not to share so much damn ram for video memory?

    I got 4gigs of ram and 1790 MB of it is being allocated for video memory, when uh the 3650 has 512mb dedicated memory. I understand that other models of the A300 come with crappy vid cards which need the shared ram but man it pisses me off :(


    I had to expand to 4gb from 2gb of ram because I was at 99% ram usage because of this when playing games, and it seems it has scaled again when I installed 4gb of ram.

    Thanks
     
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    battousai10k Notebook Evangelist

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    i have the exact same specs, but I havent foudn that problem. You realize vista takes about 2 GB regardless of what you're doing.
     
    battousai10k, Nov 9, 2009
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    thescreensavers Notebook Consultant

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    I am using Windows 7

    Gaming graphics 2302 MB | Total available graphics memory 6.1

    Its allocating 1.8 gigs of ram for my video card...
     
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    I'm at 4gb of ram, its been like this for 15 months since i bought it. Never really had a problem with the ram scaling and usage. In task manager i already have 50% of ram used when idling, but really 4gb is fast enough for me. Windows 7 would increase performance but i havent upgraded yet.
     
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  5. Amnesiac

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    Graphics memory 6.1? o_O?
     
    Amnesiac, Nov 10, 2009
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    ^^ thats my actual score in W7 woops did not mean to add that.
     
    thescreensavers, Nov 12, 2009
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    Lol, mines the same 0_o.
     
    Amnesiac, Nov 17, 2009
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    Meh, w/e I guess ill have to live with that.

    @CZX58 Shadow, What clock rate is your Ram running at? mine is running at DDR2 666 speed , even though I bought DDR2 800 Like you. The Bios is under clocking it. The chipset supports it though :( damn bios

    CPU-Z Validation
     
    thescreensavers, Nov 27, 2009
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    Mines running at full speed. I don't understand why your would do that, because your CPU has a 1066Mhz bus doesn't it?
     
    Amnesiac, Nov 27, 2009
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    thescreensavers, Nov 29, 2009
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