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    7900GS has shared ram?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by zolo, Jul 1, 2007.

  1. zolo

    zolo Notebook Evangelist

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    My cuisine brought his 9400 laptop over, it has a 7900GS, vista home premium.. when I checked the vram, it showed 512mb, 256mb dedicated+256mb shared

    While in mine, the one in my sig, it shows 256mb dedicated, and no shared BS... Is it a driver issue/bug ( using dell's drivers)?
     
    zolo, Jul 1, 2007
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  2. Cap

    Cap Notebook Consultant

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    I see that this post is old but I wish someone would offer a lil insight on this because my 1705 w/7900gs also shows 256mb dedicated + 256mb shared and it is using dx10, according to the NVIDIA contorl panel.
     
    Cap, Sep 4, 2007
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  3. System64

    System64 Windows 7 x64

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    The shared memory is due to Turbocache, which uses part of the System memory when gaming/intensive graphic tasks.
     
    System64, Sep 4, 2007
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