On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Lance Hoffmeyer told: > Can someone explain or point me to a tutorial concerning the difference > between video memory and the memory on a motherboard? > > I am about to get a dual processer 1.67 AMD computer with 512M on the > motherboard. I have a 3DFX TV card with 16M of video memory and > a ATI Radeon w/32M memory. I would like to use the Voodoo 3500 TV > card as my video card but want to make sure it will handle modern games > and such. Put both on your motherborad! Both are supported by DRI! I suppose you have only one AGP interface on the motherboard. So one ofe the cards must be a PCI one then. > > If my understanding is correct, video memory determines the rate at which > pictues are drawn on the screen and number of colors at different resolutions. I suppose this is the ramdac? Video mem speeds up the graphic interface for latching. > Therefore, it doesn't seem that processor speed would help much if I had I > game for instance that required 32M video memory. ATI for gaming and the voodoo for TV > > Am I wrong in this assumption? Is there a tradeoff with processor speed and > mainboard memory and video memory? In other words, is a 16M video card > sufficient on a system that has 512M and 1.67Ghz processor? No! Look at the new Nvidia's or the Radeon 8500! A voodoo 3 at a double 1.67GHz is like an old beetle engine in a Porsche S1 body! Ciao Elimar -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing;-)
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