Benchmarks - X600SE

Post by ek » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:22 am

Any benchmarks available for the ATI Mobility Radeon (128MB HyperMemory)? Reviews etc?

I tried googling, but eh nothing comes up.

Cheers

Post by **Foo** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:30 am

Not many. I did find one on 3dmark03 but it's written in moonspeak:
http://kettya.com/notebook2/gpu_ranking.htm

Shows it's just a little better than a mobile 9700

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:23 pm

I highly doubt that an X600SE is anywhere close to an X600...

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:45 pm

128megs of hypermem means that it will share off of your system Ram..

So, take that at Face value.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:47 pm

and are you talking about for a desktop or LAptop?

Post by ek » Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:13 pm

Ye I am talking about a laptop, managed to sell of the old one I had. Now I can buy this Compaq thing very very cheap, so I am going to just for work and stuffing around. Not really game related, but if the card can run a copule of the older games, that would be good.

The only reason I got rid of the old thing, it weighed about 4.5 kgs, this thing is 1.8kgs. o:

Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (#) (1.73GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB)
512MB DDR (533MHz)
80GB
Dual Layer DVD±RW/±R
ATI Mobility Radeon X600SE (128MB HyperMemory)
14.1" colour XGA BrightView

Any ideas? :icon32:

Foo wrote:Not many. I did find one on 3dmark03 but it's written in moonspeak:
http://kettya.com/notebook2/gpu_ranking.htm

Shows it's just a little better than a mobile 9700

lol, thanks. ye my old laptop had a MobilityRADEON 9100 IGP. And it ran q3 at 125fps, so I guess this new setup would be rocking.

AmIdYfReAk wrote:128megs of hypermem means that it will share off of your system Ram..

So, take that at Face value.

Yeah, but it has 128mbs onboard, and it will only use off the system when it needs to? (thats how I understood HyperMemory, could be wrong?)

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:39 pm

No, No, No,

Hyper memory... uhh, how can i put this. .

the card has say 8-16megs of its own memory.. and when it needs more then that 16megs ( I.e. when you are playing games ) it will Grab some system memory.

cant you look/test the laptop before you buy it?

Post by ek » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:48 pm

oh crap

yea prolly could, then again its just for work so the gfx really aint that much of a prob.

Post by **Magestic** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:55 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:No, No, No,

Hyper memory... uhh, how can i put this. .

the card has say 8-16megs of its own memory.. and when it needs more then that 16megs ( I.e. when you are playing games ) it will Grab some system memory.

cant you look/test the laptop before you buy it?

It's a little less dramatic (a Ati X300 256 HyperMemory still has 128 meg onboard), but it is indeed a bit of a rip-off if you ask me... Especially the 128meg (32mb) version... See here: http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle. ... icleid=647

Post by ek » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:03 am

heh wow, thanks for the link. dont think this laptop will be too bad. it will suit my needs. :icon14:

Post by ek » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:16 am

If I was to upgrade the video card, what cards would I be looking at? Any suggestions?

Post by **Magestic** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:16 pm

I would look at a X1600 Mobile at least for some serious performance... Either that or anything higher is ok.

But I don't think you'll be needing it. If you only play older games, a X600 is enough.

Post by ek » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:53 pm

Cheers. Yeah wouldnt be playing really anything on the laptop, just-in-case I get bored at work, can throw on something oldish.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:28 am

How much is a laptop like that?

Post by ek » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:14 am

Not sure retail price, picking it up from my oldman's mate for $400.