Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:
> Can you give me a good reason why I should buy a card with 8MB ?
Could be many. Let me see below..
> My use of X is limited to a) Running netscape to view web pages that dont
> behave under Lynx, b) Viewing some MS word documents with Star Office when
> I can't find any other way of converting them and c) Running gqview / ee
> / gimp to view /edit a few images.
Fine. If you are waiting for a page to load while you flip between
virtual desktops, [let us have that you have 4 desktops], then at 24 bpp
your demand for VRAM is going to be close to
1024x768x24/8 ~ 3MB. Plus some buffering and rendering in newer cards
is better than the older ones. If you would rather load display-graphics
from HDD instead of the card, well..
Rohit
>
> My ancient CL5446 card with 1MB RAM allows me to do all these with absolutely
> no hassles. (And I'm sure the cheapest card available today will probably
> do better than what I've got !)
>
> Kala
>
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