Onboard Video Chip

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    Howdy all,


    I have a question.
    I have a onboard video chip on my motherboard which is using 64 mb ram. If I were to install a videocard, is there a way to free those 64 mb for system use?


    Thanks, Grtz

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    Howdy people,


    I have a question about a video card I am planning on buying.
    It says it's built for Vista, but does this mean the drivers are not XP compatible or that I can simply get older drivers to make it work? The video card in question is the Asus ATi Radeon X1950 PRO 265mb


    Grtz, Thanks

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    1 - the same moment you plug in your new PCI-E svga card, the onboard one status will turn to "disabled" and the 64MB RAM will be released


    at least thats the default behaviour... in some mainboards you can change this behaviour and keep both vgas working, but its not common.
    anyways, if yours is one of those weird MoBos, somebody changed the default behaviour, and your RAM is not released after pluging in the new one, just check BIOS SETUP and disable onboard card


    2 - that vga card is vista and xp compatible. its shipped with both xp and vista drivers.


    the "vista ready" tag actually means this card will be able to run the new graphic features on vista, but it will work in XP too ;)


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    k, thanks (I ment to post 2 threads btw, incase this seemed weird ^^)
    Well, that was all that I needed, thanks again :]

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    Arvedui is 100% right


    ATi actually have a pretty good drievr for vista atm concidering the one that nvidia offer atleast untill mid december.


    Some special jetway mobos can "split" one PC with two terminals means two monitors, keyboards, mouses so you need two graphic cards, its advantage if you have two sounds cards and dua lcore processor. Each user will eb able to work separately on his own windows account. Pretty smart if you ask me - saves some $$$ for second PC.



    I dont want to change your mind about buying new card but in february 2007 both ATi and nvidia should ship alot of high/mid/low range DirectX 10 hardware cards. This would make sense getting one of those for future games. Atleast, thats what i'm thinking to do.

    Considering I don't have a card right now, this seems a good move, since I can play freelancer on 800*600 with all effects off and some older games like total annihilation and half life, but that's about it ^^

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    Get something cheap for temporal use? X1300 or 7300GS/GT. I seen card like mine - GeForce 6600 now sell for ~$60 still best bucks for the pipes (performance) and clocks alot.