Radeon 9200= Radeon 9000?

[Mybookisdead]

I just dissemble my zt3000, and found that the GPU is labeled as " ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 ", but according to the manual, all the zt3000/x1000/nx7000 should use 9200 or 7500 as GPU. I wonder if this is a cheating behavior of HP.


And the pic in Dan's guide thread of updating Video Card shows that he also got a 9000.

http://x1000forums.gotdns.com/media/video_upgrade/video_upgrade_05.jpg

What's more, I found that in the receipt of my notebook it is listed as  64MB ATI mobility Radeon 9200. But, I rember that ther was just 32MB inside (according to display property in winxp). BTW, is there any one could tell me how to tell the memory capacity from the appearance of this card?


I think maybe we should co-act to inquiry HP with this issue ( including the design defect of overheating, my video card GPU is also red goop round corners )




VGA boards (include thermal pads)
For use with HP Pavilion zt3000 notebooks
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200 w/64-MB memory
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200 w/ 32-MB memory
350129-001
350128-001
For use with HP Compaq nx7000 and
Compaq Presario X1000 notebooks
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200 w/64-MB memory
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9200 w/ 32-MB memory
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500 w/ 32-MB memory
336970-001
336969-001
336968-001

[kf_man]

The Radeon 9000 thing was well known and discussed in detail on the other forum.  The Radeon 9000 and 9200 are the same except for a 8x AGP bus that the laptop doesn't even have.  If you supposedly bought a 64MB card, but the ATI utility in Windows doesn't report that, that's another issue entirely.  I'm not sure if there is a way to tell the card apart visually since I've never taken my laptop apart.

As far as the 9000 issue, I agree that it was sneaky of HP to do it, but there is nothing that can be done and the performance shouldn't suffer as a result.  The only one really hurt by this is HP's reputation since the chip is clearly a 9000 and should be marketed as such.  It was also pointed out that ATI allowed/endorsed this behavior as well.

[alden]

flip the card over and you will see a small chip about 10x10 mm.  If you have only one chip sided close to the edge of the card it is 32mb, if you have another similar one sided on the middle, so you have 64mb (2x32mb).