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ok so i just upgraded my laptop the other day, im thoroughly happy with it so far, i used to have an asus core 2 due thingo with a gf 220m 1gb graphics card, 4gb ram etc etc, and was running slow on SC2, so naturaly i upgraded to the following.

  • 15.6" HD Wide Screen LED Display

    Intel Core i7 620M (2.66GHz-turbo up to 3.33GHz X 4)


    4GB DDR3 RAM

  • Dual Layer DVD-Writer
  • 640GB SATA II Hard Drive
  • nVidia GeForce 330M 1GB DDR3 Dedicated video card
  • Wireless LAN b/n + Web Cam
  • Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR*
  • 1 year Samsung Warranty

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i can play SC2 ultra graphics on the custom games in multiplayer which really test the cpu because some of the matches just keep spawning units, and even when theres SHITLOADS of units it still runs beautifully.

one thing i dont really understand is the CPU is a "turbo up"???? whats this mean?

and also, it says it has a dedicated video card, but when i looked in the specs in windows i only have 3gb of ram... wtf?

picked it up for 1280 display model from JB wew

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The 'turbo' is bumping up the multiplier automatically when more CPU grunt is needed. do i need software to do this? or is it hardware based?

You are probably running 32bit windows. yes 32 bit, what are you getting at? 32bit allowed 4gb ram...

It's a BIOS setting and will be on my default.

No, no it doesn't. It can 'see' 4GB but it can't use it.

hey i didnt know that, i thought it was a windows thing, as the os get new they allow more ram? its windows 7, surely it can use more than 4gb? why do they bother putting 4gb in factory if it cant be used?

Because RAM is cheap and with a lot of laptops 64bit is a no cost option. Windows 7 licenses for 32 and 64 are the same.

The only 32bit Windows systems that address 4GB and beyond are Windows server enterprise / datacentre.

Because RAM is cheap and with a lot of laptops 64bit is a no cost option. Windows 7 licenses for 32 and 64 are the same.

The only 32bit Windows systems that address 4GB and beyond are Windows server enterprise / datacentre.

mk, awell i doubt il end up using 4gb anyway, 3gb is fine, maybe i can rent out the other gb to someone...

a couple of the sysadmins were arguing about that the other day, apparently the Server 2003 (iirc) can only actually address 4GB of ram I think it was, even though Microsoft says it supports something like 8? I digress though.

Why didn't you just build a games machine?

a couple of the sysadmins were arguing about that the other day, apparently the Server 2003 (iirc) can only actually address 4GB of ram I think it was, even though Microsoft says it supports something like 8? I digress though.

Why didn't you just build a games machine?

i did build my game machines in the past, but they were always desktops, i was just after a laptop this time since we dont have a lot of room in our house. + im not as big on pc gaming as i used to be, thats what the xbox is for :D i use the lappy for wow, sc2

a couple of the sysadmins were arguing about that the other day, apparently the Server 2003 (iirc) can only actually address 4GB of ram I think it was, even though Microsoft says it supports something like 8? I digress though.

Why didn't you just build a games machine?

Like I said only enterprise and datacentre editions can address more RAM, that includes 2003.

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