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Integrated Graphics & Upgrading RAM vs Graphics Card on Company Builds...

Tags: Dell, Latitude Laptops and Optiplex Desktops., D630 / 755 and lower
We have a company wide build for many different locations in the United States.

We are hashing out a new plan on laptops (Dell D630's) on our Dell Premier page.  Dell offers a (Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100) in our current standard build.  This takes out ROUGHLY 400-500 megs of the system RAM.  Some of our users have many windows open  that we want to make sure to have 2 Gigs of ram in each system.

The graphics card in our standard build will be something to the tune of:  256MB NVIDIA® Quadro NVS 140M"

** Our Operating System is Windows XP

One of the proposed plans is to upgrade the new laptops to 4 gigs of ram and just use the integrated graphics chip.  Others state that we might have better performance with a standard graphics card and 2 gigs of ram (since the card would not take away from the system memory).

Which would be the better way to go?

I do understand that Windows XP can *roughly* use 3.26 gigs.  I have heard rumors that over 3 Gigs of ram can cause slowdown on XP machines.  I do not know if this is true.

I appreciate your time.
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Zone: Computer Hardware
Question Asked By: DWWade
Solution Provided By: PCBONEZ
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Solution Grade: B
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