[K12OSN] inexpensive video card suggestion

Ray Garza ray at mission.lib.tx.us
Tue Sep 12 14:04:57 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:20, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Jeff <jeff at cttrc.com> wrote:
> > Careful of some of the cheap video cards, some share ram, hence steal
> > your system memory for video. I have seen as much as 64 megs taken for
> > video.
>
> Any add-in card should have its own RAM. Wth such a card, I _think_
> you only need to set "AGP aperture" in BIOS to the smallest available
> value.
>
I agree, need to find them with their own ram.

Ray
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