- Please help new to laptops... Help
- Posted by Chris-John Turner on July 31st, 2005
Hi all,
Just bought an Evesham A410 Voyager which comes with the AMD Turion MT34 cpu
and the ATI mobile X700 graphics card. I would like to play the occasional
game of Counter Strike Source when I'm working away but have found it jumpy
when I've played. I've checked all settings etc and the system hould be up
to a game - I'm guessing its the 512mb of ram. I'm new to laptops etc and
need some advice on ram - Do they use pc3200 ddr (SODimm)? Is my notebook
capable of running dual channel? what ram do I buy?
Thanks in advance.
- Posted by Don Schmidt on July 31st, 2005
An excellent place to purchase ram is from Crucial. Go to their website,
enter your make and model and it will tell you which and how much ram your
computer will be able to use.
www.crucial.com
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Don
Vancouver, USA
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- Posted by BigJim on July 31st, 2005
it is not the ram it is the video card
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- Posted by higgy on July 31st, 2005
"Chris-John Turner" wrote:
Are you running off battery or mains power? Your cpu and graphics are
probably running at half-speed, if it's battery.
Does the HD light flash during the stutters? More ram will help, if
that's the case, as it will prevent pagefile access.
As has been recommended, buy your ram from crucial.com, using the memory
selector, but do check what configuration your current ram is - i.e. you
may have 2 sticks of 256MB and no free sockets, meaning you'll have to
discard some of what you have, in order to upgrade.
higgy.
- Posted by higgy on July 31st, 2005
"BigJim" wrote:
I'd be surprise - CS isn't very demanding and CS:S hasn't changed much,
from what I've read.
higgy.
- Posted by Chris-John Turner on July 31st, 2005
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Yep hard drive led flashes - the card seems to handle the game very well at
55fps with mid settings....when the page file is checked during game most of
the ram is used.....I'm looking at two sticks of corsair xms pc3200 200pin
sodimm ddr....
