[tlinux-users:07690] Re: A65 performance

--- Manuel López-Ibáñez <[email protected]> wrote:

> John McGregor wrote:

> > The best, most direct way to get a performance boost of this nature
> is 
> > to add more RAM to your machine.
> > The video card in laptops grabs system memory for its own use and
> as a 
> > result can cause quite a performance drain
> > on the OS. IE, if you have a 128 MB video card in a machine that
> has 512 
> > MB ram installed, you will only have 384 MB
> > available for all other operations.
> > 
> 
> Are you sure about this? I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 and I am almost
> sure 
> that it doesn't use any of my RAM (I have only 256 MB).

I think you're right if you don't have a graphics-chip with *shared
memory, otherwise John would be right.


> Cheers,
> 
> 	Manuel.

ursus



	

	
		
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