11-28-2006, 01:49 PM
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| Bam's Bish  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Louisiana Age: 23
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My Mood:  | 2 gigs of Shared DDR2 Ram Alright you hardware junkies, got a question. I just dished out some cash on a new laptop and added 2 gigs of ram - the only thing that bugs me is that it says shared and I don't exactly know what it means. What's it sharing the memory with and why? Added specs below just incase. Core 2 Duo - 1.60 ghz ATI Radeon - 256 mb 2GB of Shared DDR2 Ram. (533 mhz) |
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11-28-2006, 02:37 PM
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| Mondu's Sperm Bank  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Age: 28
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My Mood:    | Hmm... Good question... what I do know... I know there are some video cards out there that will share their memory with the system's. (Actually it's a one way street. i.e. Taking from the system only.) I'll poke around and see what I can find... Google wasn't much help... After further thought... Shared memory in reference to system memory... It goes along with multitasking, more than one process can utilize the RAM at a time.
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11-28-2006, 03:22 PM
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| One Very Hot Apple  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Age: 29
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My Mood:  | it's when the video card uses the system memory instead of having a seperate onboard video memory... most budget computers & laptops use shared ddr ram. example: if you have a 2g system and a 256mb video card, it shorts your system memory by 256mb, so really you only have a 1.8g system. so, it slows down your processes a bit.
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11-29-2006, 08:18 AM
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| One Very Hot Apple Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Age: 29
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look out for quad-cores becoming availaible 
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11-29-2006, 08:31 AM
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| Bam's Bish Join Date: May 2004 Location: Louisiana Age: 23
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I found out though, the ram would share itself off to the (cheaper)mobo and cpu; allocating only about 75% of the ram. *shrugs* rid myself of that. Thanks for the awesome info. quad cores blah! - I hesitated to buy this because of how quickly its outdated. Hopefully it'll be a long run. | |
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11-29-2006, 11:58 AM
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| One Very Hot Apple Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Age: 29
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My Mood: | aw, dont fret- i just bought a dual core myself and im super happy with it... (altho quad cores will be hitting the market early 2007, which will be made for the dual processors, and essentially gives you eight processor servers (4 cores to each processor) 
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11-29-2006, 04:41 PM
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| Mondu's Sperm Bank Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Age: 28
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My Mood: | That is the current trend (in order to continue making cpus faster): multiple cores. Speeds have gotten so fast that if you made a single-core any faster than they were, you'd need a refrigeration unit for your system... otherwise your computer would melt like cheddar. 
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- problem solved
