[Bdi4emc-help] RE: Bdi4emc-help Digest, Vol 5, Issue 2

Wed Apr 5 05:41:27 CEST 2006

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 11:22, Paul wrote:
>Hi Gene & Craig
>
>On Tuesday 04 April 2006 15:49, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> The motherboard is an Intel N440BX, it does have
>>>
>> > an onboard video card which I think is a Cirrus 4680?  The
>> > processor is 600Mhz P3 and I have 256Mb of ram
>>
>> Disable that onboard video, it eats too much bandwidth making use of
>> main memory and emc won't like that at all.
>
>I'm going stick my neck out here and suggest that the video chip is in
> fact a GD5480 - If this is the case, then there is probably a 2MB RAM
> dedicated to video, so no main memory will not be used. The Intel
> 440BX does not support such a "feature" natively anyway.

Thats certainly a plus then.  And as far as only 2 megs is concerned, I 
have an old amiga Picasso II card, that has one of the cirrus logic 
chipsets (5230? 5320?) on it, and 2 megs of self contained ram.  And I 
ran it in (IIRC) 1024x768x24 bit color.  And it wasn't noticeably slow 
at switching screens unless it had to fetch the background for the next 
screen from disk.
>
>Whilst a new graphics card would apen up the possibility of higher
> resolutions and colour depths, this particular motherboard may lack
> an AGP slot, and PCI video cards are getting difficult to find.
>
Thats odd you should say that Paul..  When I goto circuit city around 
here, its the AGP cards that are only stocked in onesies.  Almost 
everything is pci, and I'm talking about the $300 gamer cards none of 
use can even waste time drooling over.  There is about 6 to 10 of those 
on the shelves.  The only sub $100 card last week was a PCI card.  
Everything else was in the buck and a half up territory and nearly 100% 
PCI.  I guess that just proves the old addage of YMMV. :)

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