About XPS M1730.

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Apollo1020

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I need someone's opinion on to buy or not to buy Dell XPS M1730 notebook. It's available in my country and I'm ready to go check it out soon. The problem is, that it has only 512MB of graphics memory and that amount might be not enouph in 2 years for high-end DirectX 10 games. I need you to advice me on to buy or wait for better graphics cards from NVIDIA to appear, that will support DirectX 10 and will be for example 1GB in SLI. This is exremely important for me and I need your help and your advice.

Thank you. :)
 
Anyone can help me on this? XPS M1730 has 2x256MB and 512MB in SLI. Someone told me, that dual graphics cards do not share their memory so it means only 256MB - and that won't be enouph soon. Maybe I should wait for better graphics cards to appear, that would be 2x512MB and 1GB in SLI for example? They must support DirectX 10. Would such graphics cards appear soon? When?

Thanks.
 
That's true: SLI isn't sharing it's RAM with another card. It's there for textures, the larger needing more room. The RAM is only part of the graphics dilemma. You can buy a low-end card with 512MB, but that's not going to outpace a faster unit with less RAM. The key starts with the graphics chip itself, not the RAM. RAM is cheap and a good way of screwing the uninformed.
It's like having a trailer that can accomodate 5 tons, but you can't use a Yugo and expect it to move. Hook a semi truck to that and you can.

The RAM is important, but only to a certain extent. You're placing too much value on the graphics solution's RAM than the graphics themselves. There is always something bigger and better, and if you keep waiting for the maybe and what if's, you'll never get anything.

SLI has two cards working together to boost performance, so it's a coordinated effort by the graphics chips together.
 
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