[K12OSN] inexpensive video card suggestion

[Calvin Dodge]

On 9/12/06, Ray Garza <ray at mission.lib.tx.us> wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK, all add-in video cards have _some_ RAM. Even the low-end ones
have at least 8 megs. I believe only embedded video uses shared RAM,
and sometimes even _that_ has dedicated RAM (one reason I bought a
particular Toshiba laptop 3 years ago).

Calvin