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Can anyone suggest any games from the last few years that would run fine with this video card spec? Thank you kindly. I played Dues Ex (the original), UT, Quake 2, Starcraft and Warcraft 3 on a rig with 4MB (edit: this should read 8MB) of vid ram.
I noticed in laptops like Dell XPS you have i7 models with 8MB Smartcache and i5 models with 6MB Smartcache? When would you see a difference from this, especially if you have an SSD? How relevant is this Smartcache and a difference of 2MB?
While 8MB L3 IB model also had 50MHz more in GPU turbo in HW that advantage, however small, goes away. Core i7-4810MQ 2.8GHz 6MB L3 $378, i7-4900MQ 2.8GHz 8MB L3 $568 I would like to see those CPUs compared directly. I know it's mostly an academic comparison because the real upgrade is Core i7-4910MQ which is just a mere 100MHz clock bump over ...
It is doubtful the extra cache will be noticable, especially on a machine that old. If there is an 8mb version and a 16mb version of the same drive with a small difference in price, you could go with the 16mb. Performance differences are much larger between drive families than between different cached models.
My guess would be the green drive would come in last since it has a variable RPM, and I would think the real world difference between a 8mb IDE and a 8mb SATA drive is not much. I'm not figuring in number of platters here though. Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000AADS 500GB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive
yes an 8mb card would be significantly better. exactly how much better depends on your rig really and IMO yours is fine for IE browsing n stuff so yeah it should do the trick. on a tangent now, laugh's idea was pretty good. the card is dirt cheap @ $32 and will be a hella improvement...
yeah, a company near where i live sells off old pc's all the time, and at the comp usa i worked at people were always bringin em in to see if they could add stuff, and you'd open em up and they'd have 486's with 3 inchs of dust and no upgradability to em, but they'd have like 96 megs of ram edo and would run win 98se even, if you can give em ram on that 486 you sicko then yeah it will run.
1. Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W, or. 2. Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W. There are those who say that beyond around 6MB of cache, there are little, if any, differences in performance. Price wise, the Q9400 2.66 6MB is around $190, and the Q9550 2.83 12MB is $260.
Your right, the database doesn't need 8 mb. What MS does to reserve the space is "The amount that is reserved is a minimum of one cylinder, or 1MB, whichever is greater. (One cylinder can be up to 8MB, depending on drive geometry and translation.)".
8MB RAM 1 gig hdd 8x cd-rom sound card/14.4 modem built in 15" monitor (still have 'rents using it ) built-in video Was a b#tch to upgrade. Spent literally 2 hours on the phone with Packard Bell trying to get the video card upgraded.