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9300M Shared or Stand Alone memory?

Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by falcon26, Jun 5, 2009.

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I want to order the Y430 Ideapad. It comes with the Nvidia 9300M, I was wondering if this is a stand alone graphics card or does it share system memory? It states that its 256 megs of memory but I'm unsure if that's shared or separate. With this coupon I got I can get the Y430 with 4 gb's of ram 320GB 7200 rpm HD and a C2Duo P7450 cpu for $700 shipped which sounds really good. Also I want to make sure that the Y430 is all black, and not white. I saw one picture where the keyboard looked white, I really hope the Y430 isn't white.

Thanks

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vert Notebook Consultant

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its a card so its dedicated memory, if that memory runs out itll make use of ram.

vert, Jun 5, 2009

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link?

link to the notebook in question would be good.

wobble987, Jun 6, 2009

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Intel 4500HD is shared memory with laptop right?

So upgrading RAM wouldn't make a difference since the capacity of 4500 wouldn't change?

shriek11, Jun 6, 2009

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