OK newbie question here. Not all up on the integrated scene as i much prefer non-integrated cards (but then again don't we all)
So I have the following card in my laptop. The following is taken from a dxdiag report.
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 8200M G
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Display Memory: 1392 MB
Dedicated Memory: 241 MB
Shared Memory: 1151 MB
Now I know that the RAM on integrated cards is shared to the card from the system RAM (of which I have 3gig).
My question(s)
1.) which of the 3 memory sizes listed is the true memory usage of my card
2.) if its the dedicated memory (which i assume it is) is it possible to increase that number (i.e. dedicate more RAM to my card) to possibly 512 MB?
3.) am i just stuck with what i have and just deal with what i have till i can get the $$ together to cobble together a decent desktop.
Rest of my PC specs are as follows (again from dxdiag. copy/paste from there is faster than typing )
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (yes i know Vista = blah. trying to locate my Windows 7 update disk)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP G60 Notebook PC
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1
Processor: AMD Turion Dual-Core RM-75 (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2814MB RAM
Page File: 1487MB used, 4376MB available (been told that this can be sometimes used as RAM if needed)
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
*note* All drivers are currently up to date.
Thanks a bunch in advance.
So I have the following card in my laptop. The following is taken from a dxdiag report.
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 8200M G
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Display Memory: 1392 MB
Dedicated Memory: 241 MB
Shared Memory: 1151 MB
Now I know that the RAM on integrated cards is shared to the card from the system RAM (of which I have 3gig).
My question(s)
1.) which of the 3 memory sizes listed is the true memory usage of my card
2.) if its the dedicated memory (which i assume it is) is it possible to increase that number (i.e. dedicate more RAM to my card) to possibly 512 MB?
3.) am i just stuck with what i have and just deal with what i have till i can get the $$ together to cobble together a decent desktop.
Rest of my PC specs are as follows (again from dxdiag. copy/paste from there is faster than typing )
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (yes i know Vista = blah. trying to locate my Windows 7 update disk)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP G60 Notebook PC
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1
Processor: AMD Turion Dual-Core RM-75 (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2814MB RAM
Page File: 1487MB used, 4376MB available (been told that this can be sometimes used as RAM if needed)
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
*note* All drivers are currently up to date.
Thanks a bunch in advance.