Does my t43 have Ati Radeon x600 instead of x300?

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hiyel · #1 Post by **hiyel** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:45 pm

I was just playing around with the diagnostic tools in the predesktop environment. Hardware Info>VGA Information>VGA Card shows up as Ati Mobility Radeon X600. Would anyone confirm this and has an explaination. My model is t43 2686 NAU.

laz · #2 Post by **laz** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:50 pm

Parts information page says it has an x300.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... y=2686-NAU
See what dxdiag says.

nirvana0001 · #3 Post by **nirvana0001** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:51 pm

there's no x600 on t43 series

hiyel · #4 Post by **hiyel** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:40 pm

Well, I do know what I payed for. t43 is advertised as having x300, and I bought it knowing that it has x300, no doubt on that.

I was just wondering why it shows up as x600 on the diagnostics and if it is the same on other people's t43.

nirvana0001 · #5 Post by **nirvana0001** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:26 pm

i can install V5200 driver in order to shows V5200 in Hardware Info.

hiyel · #6 Post by **hiyel** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:17 am

This diagnostics I am talking about is the one that you run at the pre desktop environment. When you click its shortcut, laptop restarts and this diagnostics program boots the system, it has a dos like user interface. It's probably one of the lowest level applications that can extract this information, and it probably reads this right from the chip itself. So it has nothing to do with windows or device drivers.

davidspalding · #7 Post by **davidspalding** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:54 pm

Start -> run -> DEVMGMT.MSC ... What's it say under "Display Adapters?"

vovus · #8 Post by **vovus** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:27 pm

hiyel wrote:This diagnostics I am talking about is the one that you run at the pre desktop environment. When you click the its button, laptop restarts and this diagnostics program boots the system, it has a dos like user interface. It's probably one of the lowest level applications that can extract this information, and it probably reads this right from the chip itself. So it has nothing to do with windows or device drivers.

Hi, seems people do not understand you, hiyel, - i do

i also checked it on my T43, strange thing, but... my be its the same chip, but only restricted some..

hiyel · #9 Post by **hiyel** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:29 pm

vovus wrote:Hi, seems people do not understand you, hiyel, - i do i also checked it on my T43, strange thing, but... my be its the same chip, but only restricted some..

Apparently they don't

Glad to hear from someone who does

That's what I was thinking. Maybe it's really a x600, and it's locked to run as x300. Why tha hell would they bother to do that? No clue...

own6volvos · #10 Post by **own6volvos** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:44 pm

hiyel wrote:
vovus wrote:Hi, seems people do not understand you, hiyel, - i do i also checked it on my T43, strange thing, but... my be its the same chip, but only restricted some..
Apparently they don't Glad to hear from someone who does

That's what I was thinking. Maybe it's really a x600, and it's locked to run as x300. Why tha hell would they bother to do that? No clue...

If they can buy tons of x600 cards only cheaper than some x600 and some x300, software locking would allow them to still seperate between them. Also might be that it is an ATI thing, and it is hardware coded to be a certain card. Similar to how CPU's are graded, and locked into a certain speed.

dr_st · #11 Post by **dr_st** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:26 am

Well, to start with, X600 and X300 are the same GPU, only running at different frequencies. Normally, X300s are failed X600s, i.e. chips that were unable to operate at the higher frequencies of X600.

If you can clock an X300 to X600 frequencies and maintain stable operation - you have an X600. So maybe all you need to care about are your GPU and RAM frequencies.

Does my t43 have Ati Radeon x600 instead of x300?

Does my t43 have Ati Radeon x600 instead of x300?

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