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nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M and its memory

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by ralfska, 2008/08/09.

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    ralfska

    ralfska Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    I've ordered a laptop online and only now I notice that its graphic card, nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, has a video RAM of max. 128 MB.

    Now, I have a question whether these 128 MB are enough to run Windows Vista Ultimate I'm going to load?
    My laptop will be equiped with 2 GB of memory and I wonder if the graphic card can use a bit of that memory if needed. I'm not going to play any games ...

    I'd be grateful for a reply on this.

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    A minimum of 128MB graphics RAM is required for Vista Home Premium / Business / Ultimate to run correctly.
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/system-requirements.aspx

    As with all software, if you run on the minimum requirement and you try using the maximum capabilities, the system is likely to "slow down" (at least).

    Vista Home Basic only requires 32MB of RAM, so the difference is likely to be in, say, the Aero feature or other graphics features which Basic does not have.

    It will (might?) depend on how hard you push the graphics features.

    "Recommended" is always better than "Minimum" System Requirements.

    Matt
     
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    TonyT

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    What laptop exactly?
    The nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M is 128 MB own memory and 128 MB can be shared from RAM (256 total), or 256 own & 256 shared (512 total). Whether or not RAM can be shared w/ the adapter depends on the motherboard used in the laptop.

    http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_notebook_techspecs.html

    I have that card in my Dell d830, 512 MB total.
     
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    ralfska Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks.

    TonyT, this is exactly this model: http://www5.pc.ibm.com/europe/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_ND2R6xx?open&OpenDocument&epi=web_express

    It comes with Win XP installed but I own a copy of Vista Ultimate Box and am considering to partition the disk and load the OS from scratch.

    So, do you think I will be able to run Vista on that model comfortably?

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    ralfska Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    This sounds fine. Thank you.
    One more question: I heard that on notebooks with an operating system factory-installed there is a hidden partition enabling for system recovery or when the need arises to load the OS again.
    If I choose to partition the disk (160GB) from scratch, because I own a non-OEM Vista Ultimate, will I be able to delete that hidden partition with XP stuff and is this recommended at all?
     
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    If you have Norton Ghost or similay application, use it to image the C: partition, put the image on a dvd. That way, if ever want to go back to xp you just need to restore the image.
     
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    ralfska

    ralfska Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thank you, TonyT. I guess, I will use the software Image for Windows by TeraByte for this purpose.
    BTW, do you know if Windows XP Pro can make full use of Intel® Core 2 Duo, i.e. if it is "aware" of the second processor?
     
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    It's not a 2nd processor, it's a 2nd core, and yes, Windows XP will use it, but you may need SP2 since it included a few fixes (mainly to power management).
     
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    ralfska

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    Thank you all for your valuable inputs.

    One more question on this:
    Would I be correct in assuming that the smaller the display screen of a laptop is, the less a dedicated graphic card is overloaded?

    For instance, if I have a 14.1" display screen then am I likely to gain more from a 128mb graphic card than in the case of a 15.4" display screen?
     
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    Probably the only gain would be battery life.
     
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