[plug] SiSsy chipsets

[Christian]

John Summerfield wrote:
> > Sigh. They come out on new motherboards. "Built in 8MB video card," the
> > box says, failing to mention that those eight megabytes come from system
> > RAM _and_ the video card competes with the CPU for the right to access
> > said system RAM. The SiS chip in question has built into it (of all
> > things), a video controller, an AGP bridge, and dual IDE interfaces.
> > Sounds like a car with an integrated radiator, clutch and sump to me.

> My daughter has a system with the same M/b. It'w working very nicely
> thankyou. Yes, we know that the vide RAM comes from system RAM. We don't
> think the odd 4 Mbytes is particularly significant out of the 32 Mbytes
> she has (or the 96 I have).

I don't think you were being attacked personally, John - he was just
commenting on the motherboard in general. :-)

Regards,

Christian.

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