Hello John: With respect to buying a mass produced computer Vs. a custom built one, you will receive various opinions. What it will boil down to in the end is what you are willing to pay and whom you trust. As for on-board or not, this doesn't have much of an impact on WE. What does matter is the more on-board devices you have the more RAM is shared with these components. Using video and sound cards will free up some of the computer's RAM for other tasks. A couple of things to keep in mind is that it is important to ensure the drivers for your hardware are up-to-date. And when selecting a sound or video card try to avoid using some of the utilities that come with them. >From time to time they have a sound management utility that may not be accessible. I try to avoid using those utilities and prefer to manage the sound and video through Windows. Vic
________________________________ From: John Riehl [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:35 PM To: gwinfo Subject: Questions for a new computer I'm in the process of having a new computer put together for me. I have a couple of questions. 1. In terms of windoweyes and othee accessibiliity products, is it better to have a separate sound card or use "onboard" sound -- i.e., sound that's part of the mother board? 2. Same for video: is a separate video card better for windoweyes or is "shared video" okay? I plan to use XP pro, not Vista. Thanks. John Riehl If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
