I currently have a Toahiba laptop with 512 MB DDR Ram, 1.73 Ghz Pentium M, and 128 MB Video Card which is shared. I kno laptops arent the best for games but for the specs provided i think the games that i played should be easily handled by the laptop. I had a dektop with the same specs that easily handled the same games with ease. Is it the fact my video card is shared? Would getting another 256 MB DDR Ram increase performance of games?

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Hands down more RAM. fill it up you'll be pleased. WinXP PRO SP2 ASUS A7N8X-X BIOS 1014 beta 2 PC3200 768 1.5t 3t 3t 6t AMD XP 2600+ @ 2.2 ATI AIW 9800 PRO 128MB

Ok thats not a problem. Do you think 256 MB would be enough? BTW thnx for the reply!

"Would getting another 256 MB DDR Ram increase performance of games?" Onboard graphics with shared RAM are not good for gaming...adding more RAM will help overal system performance, but the onboard video will always limit your gaming performance. If you wanted your laptop for games, you should have bought a gaming laptop. Are Intel's Integrated Graphics Processors Good Enough for Gaming? ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

Before thinking about upgrading your RAM.. Im sure your laptop only have 2 SO-DIMM spot.. Make sure your 512MB RAM is 1x512MB.. If it is 2x256MB... Then you cannot put another 256MB in it to make it 768... You'll need to buy 512MB and replace the 256 to make it 768 = 512 + 256... TMP-Man Asus A7V classic rev 1.05 Athlon XP 2100+ @ 102x20 = 2040Mhz 1.75v 768MB PC133 RAM @ 134Mhz 2-2-2 40GB 5400RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Geforce FX5200 128bit 276/515

Here is something that I just found out about laptops. I had a friend tell me that he was working on a laptop and purchased a Kingston 512 stick to put in it to make the laptop run faster. Upon installing the ram the computer would not read that it was there. There are limits on some laptops on how much it will read. For expample the laptop my friend was working on would only recognize 512 total. So you may want to make sure your computer will support more before you go out and spend money on a new stick.