1. Adds more strain to both the cpu and on board chipset.
2. Dedicated graphics setups like nvidia or ATi dont use the normal slower PC ram found on most PC as the main ram but very fast (DDR2 these days) ram.
If you just doing general; stuff shared graphics ram is fine but if you want to do any heavy duty 3D stuff forget it.
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 14:58 +1000, David wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:28:28AM +0800, james wrote: > > If you get a dell, and there are lots of nice things about dell plus a > few uuugh > price > ease of setup > compatibility > heat generation (the centrino's are better) > then > 1) you buy it > 2) return winders for munnie ($80 as I recall) > > Call Dell Dell are offering very cheap prices right now.. but they talk about ram shared with graphics ??? Does anyone have any comment about that? Does it matter?
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