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    FZ21s GPU help.

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by deathpenalty, Mar 31, 2008.

  1. deathpenalty

    deathpenalty Notebook Consultant

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    I'm trying to buy the FZ21S Vaio at a decent price.

    I know it has the 8600m GS but I need to know is it DDR2 or DDR3 in terms of memory and is it the underclocked or normal version in this Sony FZ21S model?

    Thanks
     
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  2. jam12

    jam12 Notebook Deity

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    DDR3 & its the normal version. Its quite an improvement over the 8400GT DDR3 and very close to the performance of 8600GT DDR2.
     
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  3. singh100

    singh100 Notebook Consultant

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    yuup wat jam12 said...i have the same laptop.. ;)
     
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    Also out of your experience is it a noisy machine?
     
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    yuup... noisy when everything is silent in your place, i.e night time
    but the power saving settings in vista slow the fan down..virtually quite
    but the fan is constantly running is high performance mode, making it irritating.

    However im totally happy with my purchase, had it for a couple of months now, works like a dream, did a clean install, included sp1, no driver issues. played a number of games on it at a perfectly acceptable frame rate, bioshock and COD4.

    The blu-ray drive and wireless-n capabilities make it a laptop which will be relevent for at least the next few years
     
    singh100, Apr 1, 2008
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